New Variant: Deltacron

[HereComesSpringAgain]

Well this sounds worrying!

news.sky.com/story/covid-19-deltacron-identified-as-new-variant-how-fast-is-it-spreading-and-should-we-be-worried-12563165

Just when it seemed no new variant would appear.

• it’s what a virus does
• there will always be more variants
• this one was identified 2 months ago
• less fear mongering please

Just when it seemed no new variant would appear.

New variants will emerge over time, just as they do for 'flu and other viruses. This is why we'll likely need to offer an annual vaccine programme.

Public health officials don't seem to be unduly worried about this variant, if you read the quotes the article you linked.

Hasn’t this been around for months? Pretty sure it was in the news in January.

Just when it seemed no new variant would appear.

Not sure why you'd think there'd be no new variants.

There will always be new variants to any disease. It's what they do, i.e. mutate over time. Hence why there's always a different flu jab every year, i.e. to try to protect against whatever strain of flu will be the most dangerous/virulent that Winter.

Likewise, why it's expected that covid jabs will be required at least every Autumn, maybe more often, to protect against the latest variants.

It also doesn’t sound worrying, scientists aren’t worried.

It isn’t new, it’s been around since just after Christmas (if not before).

Chris whitty is that you trying to make a comeback?

Just when it seemed no new variant would appear.
Nobody with an ounce of scientific knowledge has ever implied that no new variants would appear.

No it isn't worrying.

Did you actually read the article that you linked to in the OP because there is nothing worrying there. The article is actually the opposite of worrying as it explains that it is unlikely to be a concern.
If you have read it then I am worried about your comprehension skills.
Also, surely you didn't actually think there would be no more variants. That's how viruses work. We have been told this from the start.

Eh? No it’s not. It literally explains in the article that although delta was the more severe variant of the two this is not the one that attaches to the human cells and that is omicron. So although it might be more infectious, it’s again a mild variant.

Literally nothing worrying about it at all of you just use your noggin for a bit of common sense sometimes.

We really need a yawn emoji

This one doesn't seem to be troublesome.

And we can't know when the next variant will arise or what it will be like, so there's no point in worrying about it ahead of time.

But we do need surveillance - not just in UK - so that when one does crop up it is spotted promptly, and the disease pattern it produces monitored.

As covid in infectious before it causes symptoms, there is no evolutionary pressure to become milder (once it has moved on it doesn't matter how ill or dead it leaves that host). So severity/mildness could vary considerably and we need to spot if one could be serious as early as possible

@nomistake

Chris whitty is that you trying to make a comeback?

Bit harsh, Christ Whitty has always been incredibly pragmatic and measured in terms of the inevitability of emergence of new variants and how they should be managed.

Oh that typo

If you read the article it doesn't actually sound that worrying.

Oh do fuck off op with your scare mongering bullshit. Learn some objectivity.

Just when it seemed no new variant would appear.

No, it never ever seemed like that!!!

Op, did you actually read the whole article

No one seriously thought no variants would appear.

Lock me down harder daddy

5th vaccine please.

@riveted1 in your opinion maybe.

I’ve been wondering about a new variant as 6 people at work have gone off recently with covid and all have been really poorly (young to old all vaccinated) and non were close contacts with the other.

Whoopty doo, another strain of cold (for the majority.) The good news with it sweeping through our school so readily is that in two weeks, it'll just be another inconvenient memory because there'll be no one left to get it.

Speaking through experience, and round two of isolating since Christmas is the hard bit rather than the actual illness.

If it was 2019 we'd have just said "gosh, that was a nasty cold".

Roll on 1st April when a cold can be a cold again.