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Brazilian variant?

46 replies

StealthPolarBear · 14/01/2021 16:13

Has anyone heard? BBC flashed something up but no real detail.
Apolgies if there's already a thread on this, I couldn't see one.

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SnowFields · 14/01/2021 16:15

Yes, more concerns about the vaccine not being effective with this strain.

Hopefully we will do better at keeping the strain out by banning people entering the country if they have been in S America in the last ten days.

nannynick · 14/01/2021 16:16

BBC News: UK-bound arrivals from South America and Portugal will be banned from Friday over concerns about the Brazilian coronavirus variant.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55666198

StealthPolarBear · 14/01/2021 16:18

Yes I saw about the flights but that's the first I heard of it. Nothing about it before that as far as I can see.

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nannynick · 14/01/2021 16:22

Article from Forbes yesterday: www.forbes.com/sites/williamhaseltine/2021/01/13/how-new-covid-19-variants-might-impact-vaccines/
"E484K appears to give SARS-CoV-2 an element of disguise, making it less recognizable to the antibodies a vaccine trains to eliminate it."

StealthPolarBear · 14/01/2021 16:28

Thank you, I'll have a look. I wonder if there will be a press conference tonight, there's usually one on a Thursday, isn't there?

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SnowFields · 14/01/2021 16:37

@StealthPolarBear

Thank you, I'll have a look. I wonder if there will be a press conference tonight, there's usually one on a Thursday, isn't there?
I think we are back to regular press conferences every evening now.
ScrapThatThen · 14/01/2021 16:38

It has been in the news the past few days OP

testingtesting321 · 14/01/2021 16:43

This must be a bigger concern than the South Africa variant if they are trying to ban all flights from South America? People are still coming in from South Africa, albeit through transit though another country.

JanuaryChill · 14/01/2021 16:43

It's wise (although not very encouraging) to remember that it is unlikely to be a coincidence that the three countries to identify the three significant variants - us, S Africa and Brazil - all do much more genome sequencing than most other countries.

That is, there will be other unidentified variants in other countries....

testingtesting321 · 14/01/2021 16:43

To block flights from a whole continent is quite extreme

Santaiscovidfree · 14/01/2021 16:44

Is that the one you just down each side?
Grin

StealthPolarBear · 14/01/2021 16:51

The UK is at the forefront of genome sequencing too isn't it, and of course we've identified one

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Fressia123 · 14/01/2021 16:52

@testingtesting321

To block flights from a whole continent is quite extreme
My thoughts exactly. Also will Mexico be included? It's not SA but people love to include it. People from Colombia will have next to no contact with that strain.
RetailGail · 14/01/2021 16:54

its probably already in the uk

passengers returning to Hong Kong had it, god knows where else in the world its already travelled to.

StealthPolarBear · 14/01/2021 16:55

Still no mention of a press conference

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reformedcharacters · 14/01/2021 16:58

There’s been several variants now including a home grown one so unless everyone everywhere permanently stays in their own back yard I don’t see what else we can do? 🤷🏻‍♀️

Em777 · 14/01/2021 16:59

The worry is it seems to have originated in Manaus, Brazil, an area that was thought to be nearing herd immunity (76% of people were estimated to have had C19 by late October). Cases are rising there again and there’s at least one confirmed report of this new variant affecting someone who’s had covid before.

CoffeeandCroissant · 14/01/2021 17:12

mobile.twitter.com/BillHanage/status/1349207412159504384

JanuaryChill · 14/01/2021 17:19

Lots of interesting stuff on his account, thanks @CoffeeandCroissant

ajandjjmum · 14/01/2021 17:23

So to a non-scientist, it looks like it will never end. For the first time, I'm feeling really low about this.

the80sweregreat · 14/01/2021 17:29

@ajandjjmum

So to a non-scientist, it looks like it will never end. For the first time, I'm feeling really low about this.
Me too. Feels never ending. :(
StealthPolarBear · 14/01/2021 17:36

Pandemics do end, even historically with it modern medicine
(I tell myself that when I feel the same)

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MarshaBradyo · 14/01/2021 17:38

I don’t have much to say but it is depressing

weepingwillow22 · 14/01/2021 17:41

@JanuaryChill

It's wise (although not very encouraging) to remember that it is unlikely to be a coincidence that the three countries to identify the three significant variants - us, S Africa and Brazil - all do much more genome sequencing than most other countries.

That is, there will be other unidentified variants in other countries....

It could also be due to these countries all having very high transmission rates which increased the chance of mutation.
waitrosetrollydolly · 14/01/2021 17:45

I was hoping this variant made all your pubes fall out ?

( misses the point, so backs away slowly )

Grin