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Coronavirus

Rorschach said:
Yep, the common cold is a misnomer. There are about 200 or more variants I believe. What most people get is some flavour of the rhinovirus, which is by far the most common. The flu has variants too, so the flu jab is just a prediction of the strain of flu that is most prevalent that year.

They'll have to develop vaccines for all variants of covid if it mutates. Has there been any reporting on different virus strains?
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One fairly small mutation back in the spring from what I've read.

The immunisation method is designed to attack in a way that it isn't affected though, apparently.
 
Glenda's Legs said:
A virologist (I think - so many different fields of science being interviewed every day!) on BBC yesterday was saying that there has been very little mutation so far because it (the virus) has had not need to mutate. Once it starts getting attacked by vaccines, that is when (more significant) mutations would be expected.
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Although effective and large spread vaccines will also reduce its ability to mutate.
 
Rorschach said:
Don't quite get your meaning in that 2nd sentence.
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The most likely vaccines to work from those currently being trialled attack the outer shell of the virus to "pop" it - almost like popping a bubble. They don't attack what's inside the shell, they just attack the shell itself.

The only mutation so far is to the bit of the virus that does the damage inside the shell, so a vaccine that works on one will work on the other (and probably SARS, etc).
 
Grays_1890 said:
NZ, we are too far gone and we are never going to be a Sweden, thats gone. So we need to take a serious look now and decide the course of action.
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We'll f**k about doing this and that and make a hundred headlines and a million tweets and have thousands of discussions whilst the old and weak die.
 
Sorry just don't believe this or any of it anymore

Covid spreading faster in England than 'worst-case scenario', documents show
 
nayenezgani said:
You renounce science and evidence but peddle flimflam conspiracy articles and harp on about UFO's? Sort yourself out FFS.
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which science?


a shocking mass-testing study published yesterday estimated that 96,000 people were catching the disease every day in England on October 25. Imperial College London academics - whose projection was based on thousands of random test results - warned the R rate could even be as high as three in London.


Or

a conflicting forecast which put the figure at closer to 56,000, sparking confusion about how severe the UK's second wave really is. Department of Health testing has picked up an average of just 22,125 cases per day for the last week, with 23,065 diagnosed yesterday.


There is no single science.
 
Legohamster said:
which science?


a shocking mass-testing study published yesterday estimated that 96,000 people were catching the disease every day in England on October 25. Imperial College London academics - whose projection was based on thousands of random test results - warned the R rate could even be as high as three in London.


Or

a conflicting forecast which put the figure at closer to 56,000, sparking confusion about how severe the UK's second wave really is. Department of Health testing has picked up an average of just 22,125 cases per day for the last week, with 23,065 diagnosed yesterday.


There is no single science.
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The science of reading basic graphs that shows Covid deaths spiking rapidly again?
 
Legohamster said:
which science?


a shocking mass-testing study published yesterday estimated that 96,000 people were catching the disease every day in England on October 25. Imperial College London academics - whose projection was based on thousands of random test results - warned the R rate could even be as high as three in London.


Or

a conflicting forecast which put the figure at closer to 56,000, sparking confusion about how severe the UK's second wave really is. Department of Health testing has picked up an average of just 22,125 cases per day for the last week, with 23,065 diagnosed yesterday.


There is no single science.
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science is a process, not a product
 
Legohamster said:
which science?


a shocking mass-testing study published yesterday estimated that 96,000 people were catching the disease every day in England on October 25. Imperial College London academics - whose projection was based on thousands of random test results - warned the R rate could even be as high as three in London.


Or

a conflicting forecast which put the figure at closer to 56,000, sparking confusion about how severe the UK's second wave really is. Department of Health testing has picked up an average of just 22,125 cases per day for the last week, with 23,065 diagnosed yesterday.


There is no single science.
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56,000 cases a day as a best case scenario (with cases doubling every 10 days as a best case scenario) is a pretty grim situation. Most evidence points to the situation worse.

So much for the ‘just let it rip’ theory.
 
Mikey10 said:
56,000 cases a day as a best case scenario (with cases doubling every 10 days as a best case scenario) is a pretty grim situation. Most evidence points to the situation worse.

So much for the ‘just let it rip’ theory.
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and yet the deaths are where they are

And who said let it rip?

that’s emotional rubbish
 
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