Delta+ New variant of concern

[Thewiseoneincognito]

News outlets starting to report on a cluster of cases of a new version of the original Delta variant. Now called the Delta Plus and listed as a variant of concern. From Sky News...

India declares new 'Delta plus' variant of concern

The country has declared that a new variant, identified locally as "Delta plus", is one of concern.

Two dozen cases have been detected in three states, including the state of Maharashtra, federal health secretary Rajesh Bhushan told a news conference.

The ministry said Delta plus showed increased transmissibility, and it has told states to up their testing efforts.

The original Delta variant was first discovered in India and has managed to spread to the UK, now making up 99% of new confirmed cases.

A virus doing what a virus does, ie, mutate. Big whoop.

Couldn't give a shiny one at this point.

It’s already in U.K. it’s called AY.1 and U.K has 52 cases

www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-variants-genomically-confirmed-case-numbers/variants-distribution-of-case-data-18-june-2021

sars2.cvr.gla.ac.uk/cog-uk/

I am very sorry but I don’t GAF.

All we need to complete the madness now is for our new alien overlords to descend. If they can sort this farce out, I for one will welcome them
with open arms.

We've all reached doom saturation. Can someone just share some cute pictures of puppies to take the edge off?

Brilliant!

@Tonkerbea

We've all reached doom saturation. Can someone just share some cute pictures of puppies to take the edge off?

I actually think this is 💯 accurate.

I’d love some pictures of cute animals.

[quote MercyBooth]@Kendodd the full data isnt there yet due to inquest backlogs. It was explained on another thread.[/quote]
www.thelancet.com/journals/lanepe/article/PIIS2666-7762(21)00087-9/fulltext

"We have found no rise in suicide in the seven months that followed the first national lockdown in 2020. This is consistent with most reports from other high income countries [18, 19, 20]. It is also consistent with the finding of no rise in self-harm in England based on both hospital attendance and on a national community survey 1],[21],[22. These figures do not confirm the frequent media predictions of an escalation in suicide rates as a result of lockdown and they emphasise the importance of responsible reporting of suicide 23."

This is by Prof Louis Appleby ( a very eminent figure in the study of suicide in the UK), and is an analysis of the best data available, published April 2020.

There are of course technical caveats of different sorts, and this is an area where data will be very carefully re-examined as more information becomes available, but it can't be fairly said that there is an increase in the suicide rates, with the data we have.

I did find a bit more info on Delta Plus in an Independent article:

Referred to variously as the “Nepal variant”, the “Delta plus” variant or Delta AY.1, early data show this new lineage (B.1.617.2.1) allows the Covid virus to better resist antibody therapy treatments because it includes the K417N mutation — first found in the Beta variant that emerged in South Africa.

The K417N mutation is apparently resistant to newly developed monoclonal antibody treatment drugs, Casirivimab and Imdevimab.

If I"m reading the article right it says there are 36 cases identified in the UK already.

www.independent.co.uk/asia/india/covid-india-delta-plus-variant-explained-b1866153.html

@Tonkerbea

We've all reached doom saturation. Can someone just share some cute pictures of puppies to take the edge off?

One would like to think so, but give it a week of media hype, and many millions will be back in the house again.

Some might say that claiming that suicide stats are "through the rood" are doom mongering.

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I love you CrunchyCarrot - you have cheered up my evening with this thread. Honestly, you have.

@JellyBabiesFan

Each variant is becoming more infectious than the last. Hopefully we get to a point where Delta maximus the great III++ appears and infects everbody on the planet at the same time. Then we can be done with it all.

Has anyone else got to the point now where this sounds like a good option??

I have peak doomed tbh. Bring on the puppies please.

First image under delta and puppy

Each variant is becoming more infectious than the last. Hopefully we get to a point where Delta maximus the great III++ appears and infects everbody on the planet at the same time. Then we can be done with it all

I'd rather an asteroid hit and took us all out within seconds.

Why are you all moaning at OP? You chose to click. It’s not like she hid what the thread was about with a misleading or punny thread name.

You’re in the coronavirus board, clicking on threads about new variants, moaning that the threads about a new coronavirus variant.

Scroll on by. Hide the topic. Go look at puppies elsewhere. (Recommend We Rate Dogs on Twitter.)

Only covid matters must stop.

Other illnesses/causes of death matter too

@AliceLivesHere

Only covid matters must stop.

Other illnesses/causes of death matter too

This is the coronavirus board. This is not “only covid matters”. This is a post about a variant of covid.

Did you really expect the op to add a caveat that other illnesses matter to in their first post?

I stopped caring quite a while ago
Happy to share cute Kitty pic though - he’s keeping my morale up nicely

There is a "good news" thread where people sometimes post pictures of animals (just saying).

That is cute kitty Jace

Hi all

Can we please keep the discussion civil?

Thanks.

If you want to keep morale up and you don't want to discuss nasty variants you might consider the good news thread? People generally don't post scary stats etc on there.

I don’t think people find it scary

The opposite probably