Are they trying to scare us all again - What is this mutated new virus?

[JohnD]

the majority of us will either had it or had sufficient exposure to it

if that was true (it isn't) new cases should be diminishing

they aren't

Why does benny feel impelled to publish things that aren't true?

 

[Notch7]

‘it’s’ been around over a year, meaning the majority of us will either had it or had sufficient exposure to it.
surely they should be antibody testing everyone instead of covid testing everyone to maximise hysteria and peddle unnecessary vaccines.

you are certainly suffering a touch of the vapours

 

[teaboyjim]

Link to the mink

Here is what they say in that link "The World Health Organization has stated that cluster 5 has a "moderately decreased sensitivity to neutralizing antibodies".[1] The Danish State Serum Institute (SSI) warned that the mutation could reduce the effect of COVID-19 vaccines under development, although it was unlikely to render them useless. Following the lockdown and mass-testing, SSI announced on 19 November 2020 that cluster 5 in all probability had become extinct.[2"

 

[dontbelieveawordofit]

“from what I saw on the news”.
“from what I heard on the radio”
“It said this on Google”
“Boris says this”
pathetic isn’t it.

you’ll be expecting me to believe in father christmas next.

 

[dontbelieveawordofit]

which makes more sense ?

push for more covid testing ( which can only serve to inflate bogus figures)?

antibody test everyone to establish who exactly has had or got it so people who haven’t got antibodies can be vaccinated first?

 

[IT Minion]

So Brigadier can you make head or tales of this then? Here is what they say in that link "The World Health Organization has stated that cluster 5 has a "moderately decreased sensitivity to neutralizing antibodies".[1] The Danish State Serum Institute (SSI) warned that the mutation could reduce the effect of COVID-19 vaccines under development, although it was unlikely to render them useless. Following the lockdown and mass-testing, SSI announced on 19 November 2020 that cluster 5 in all probability had become extinct.[2"

Are they saying that this is getting more immune to the vaccines and the vaccines are not going to be as strong and as effective against this "cluster 5"?

That particular branch did seem like it might be harder to fight off. But it seems to have gone the way of the Dodo.

 

[IT Minion]

which makes more sense ?

push for more covid testing ( which can only serve to inflate bogus figures)?

antibody test everyone to establish who exactly has had or got it so people who haven’t got antibodies can be vaccinated first?

They are doing antibody tests. They say around 7% have had Covid-19.

 

[JP_]

What the tabloid scammers are not telling the people (because it won't cause panic and sell more papers) is that the mutations might be good - sometimes a virus might become more contagious but less dangerous to health, and this will mean more people will get it then develop antibodies. As a general rule, a virus does not want to kill its host.

But's it's all guesswork at the moment.

 

[teaboyjim]

That particular branch did seem like it might be harder to fight off. But it seems to have gone the way of the Dodo.

I hope they manage to role out the vaccine program fairly soon

 

[teaboyjim]

What the tabloid scammers are not telling the people (because it won't cause panic and sell more papers) is that the mutations might be good - sometimes a virus might become more contagious but less dangerous to health, and this will mean more people will get it then develop antibodies. As a general rule, a virus does not want to kill its host. But's it's all guesswork at the moment.

They never tell us things that could ease our worries and fears

 

[teaboyjim]

They are doing antibody tests. They say around 7% have had Covid-19.

I didn't realize it was that high

 

[EFLImpudence]

Preparations for weekly Covid policy meetings.

 

[JohnD]

bogus

what do you mean, "bogus?"

 

[IT Minion]

I didn't realize it was that high so what is 7% of roughly what is our population about 67 million is it? That means over 4,690,000 people have had this virus already

Yep, which matches fairly well with the number of deaths at 60,000 is 1.3% fatality rate.

What's more depressing is that apparently long covid hits 10% of people, which means half a million people have some degree of lasting damage from Covid-19 so far.

 

[ReganAndCarter]

if that was true (it isn't) new cases should be diminishing

they aren't

Why does benny feel impelled to publish things that aren't true?

Your faith in Doris' government stats is misplaced. Surprised that you have figured he's an innate liar, but trust that he has had a Damascene conversion when it comes to Kung Flu.