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Mutant Covid strain in Hong Kong |
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KiwiMum
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Posted: March 09 2022 at 4:29pm |
Food for thought here. A strain thought to be almost exclusive to Hong Kong is killing about 280 people a day. Also just detected in Australia. |
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Those who got it wrong, for whatever reason, may feel defensive and retrench into a position that doesn’t accord with the facts.
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Dutch Josh
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The article names the HK variant BA.2.2, suggesting there also would be a BA.2.1...however [url]https://outbreak.info/situation-reports[/url] or https://outbreak.info/situation-reports only has BA.2 without further sub-variants... [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SARS-CoV-2_Omicron_variant#Sublineages_and_BA.2_subvariant[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SARS-CoV-2_Omicron_variant#Sublineages_and_BA.2_subvariant ;Researchers have established the existence of three sublineages of Omicron. The 'standard' sublineage is now referred to as BA.1 also not very helpfull...But [url]https://www.coronaheadsup.com/asia/hong-kong/hong-kong-omicron-ba-2-with-si1221t-mutation-designated-ba-2-2/[/url] or https://www.coronaheadsup.com/asia/hong-kong/hong-kong-omicron-ba-2-with-si1221t-mutation-designated-ba-2-2/ ; The dominant BA.2 lineage in Hong Kong with the spike mutation at I1221T has been designated BA.2.2. The BA.2 lineage has been split at a point that makes it easier to separate the Hong Kong variant from a BA.2 variant circulating in the UK that has a similar mutation. - South Korea is also seeing a similar large surge in cases to Hong Kong, reporting a record figure of 342,446 on the 8th March 2022, up 69% in one day. DJ So outbreak.info may soon give info on BA.2.1 and BA.2.2 spread.... ([url]https://www.coronaheadsup.com/coronavirus/south-korea-nearly-half-of-recent-covid-cases-in-seoul-are-vaccine-breakthrough-infections/[/url] or https://www.coronaheadsup.com/coronavirus/south-korea-nearly-half-of-recent-covid-cases-in-seoul-are-vaccine-breakthrough-infections/ ; could be a warning....if it was not from november 2021....) |
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