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White House Covid task force warns of possible new ‘USA variant’ driving spread

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spookyduzt

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Meanwhile my School Board is hellbent on changing their own metrics to force everybody back in school.
 
Nigel Tufnel

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Senator Toadstool said:
they're fear mongering. viruses don't mutate that much that quickly.
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Viruses mutate a lot, and every host is another opportunity for a potentially disastrous mutation to take place- and we have 3/4s of the world engulfed in uncontrolled spread.

Its a possibility. Seasonal flu mutates enough yearly that several strains are vaccine resistant from year to year.
 
Senator Toadstool

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Tatsu91 said:
I would love to think that but that is the same sort of thinking the Far right has given and put us where we are at. So while nice in thought i am not sure if we should avoid taking the possibility seriously.
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No it's not it's based on science and history but reset thinks eternal pessimism is "realistic"

studying the genetic tracking which is how we found this is how we slow its spread.
 
Unsupported speculation by WH task force member
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    • XMonkey

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    Oh look, it was more bullshit. Shocking.

    www.nytimes.com

    False reports of a new ‘U.S. variant’ originated from Dr. Deborah Birx on the task force.

    www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com

    Reports of a highly contagious new variant in the United States, published on Friday by multiple news outlets, are based on speculative statements made by Dr. Deborah Birx and are inaccurate, according to several government officials.

    The erroneous report originated at a recent meeting where Dr. Birx, a member of the White House coronavirus task force, presented graphs of the escalating cases in the country. She suggested to other members of the task force that a new, more transmissible variant originating in the U.S. might explain the surge, as another variant did in Britain.

    Her hypothesis made it into a weekly report sent to state governors. "This fall/winter surge has been at nearly twice the rate of rise of cases as the spring and summer surges. This acceleration suggests there may be a USA variant that has evolved here, in addition to the UK variant that is already spreading in our communities and may be 50% more transmissible," the report read. "Aggressive mitigation must be used to match a more aggressive virus."

    Dismayed, officials at the C.D.C. tried to have the speculative statements removed, but were unsuccessful, according to three people familiar with the events.

    C.D.C. officials did not agree with her assessment and asked to remove it but were told no, according to one frustrated C.D.C. official, speaking on condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation.

    Dr. Birx could not immediately be reached for comment.
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    • Parch

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    I guess that's good news then. The White House Coronovirus Task Force being full of crap shouldn't be a surprise.
     
    F34R

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    Our first case in our 20,000 population county Apr. 2, 2020. From Apri to Oct 31, 851 cases. Nov. 1 to Dec. 31, 522 cases. 149 more in the past week. They are still going to open schools back up this coming Monday.
     
    Nilou

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    Article and source in question has been shown to be unproven and untrustworthy. Thread has been locked.
     
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