Study: New mutation indicates that coronavirus weakening

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New mutation indicates that coronavirus might be weakening

By: Fox News, May 6, 2020:

A mutation in the novel coronavirus mirrors a change that occurred in the genetically similar SARS virus in 2003 — indicating that the bug might be weakening, researchers announced in a newly published study.

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Lead study author Dr. Efren Lim, an assistant professor at Arizona State University’s Biodesign Institute, and his team use a new technology called next-generation sequencing to rapidly read the genetic code of the coronavirus, referred to scientists as SARS-CoV-2.

That technology helps researchers to determine how the virus is spreading, mutating and adapting over time.

Out of the 382 nasal swab samples the researchers examined from coronavirus patients in the state, a single sample was missing a significant chunk of its genome. Eighty-one of the letters were permanently deleted, according to the new study published in the Journal of Virology.

“One of the reasons why this mutation is of interest is because it mirrors a large deletion that arose in the 2003 SARS outbreak,” Lim said in a statement.

During the middle and late phases of the 2003 SARS epidemic, the virus accumulated mutations that lessened its strength, according to the researchers.

“Where the deletion occurs in the genome is pretty meaningful because it’s a known immune protein which means it counteracts the host’s antiviral response,” Lim told the Daily Mail.

A weakened virus that causes less severe symptoms may get a leg up if it is able to spread efficiently through populations by people who don’t know they are infected, the scientists say.

However, it’s too soon to say whether the novel coronavirus is beginning to lose its potency, according to the researchers.

All of the patients whose samples the Arizona scientists analyzed had some clinical coronavirus symptoms — meaning that even the version with 81 deletions was still strong enough to make the patient at least somewhat sick, the Mail reported.

This is the first time such a deletion has been seen in the 16,000 coronavirus genomes that have been sequenced to date, according to the researchers.

That’s less than half a percent of the strains circulating, according to the scientists. There are about 3.6 million confirmed COVID-19 cases worldwide.

“This is a drop in the bucket,” Lim told the Mail.

“One sample is the convincing thing we need to say “look at this,”‘ meaning that if more coronavirus genomes are sequenced, scientists might find far more instances of this attenuated genome,” he said.

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Halal Bacon
Halal Bacon
3 years ago

just like everything else made in China – cheaply made

DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
3 years ago
Reply to  Halal Bacon

Good one!

Nighthawk
Nighthawk
3 years ago

It also indicates a vaccine is based on previous mutations, therefor all but useless except as a poison.

Commissioner Gordon
Commissioner Gordon
3 years ago
Reply to  Nighthawk

The same scam goes on with the annual “flu shot”, they can’t even get that one right. What makes them think they will do any better with the CCP “Virus”?

Jim McCormack
Jim McCormack
3 years ago

Why are these poisons developed in the first place ? We already have enough of those killing us besides the good old stand -bys of cancer, heart etc.

leonore35
leonore35
3 years ago
Reply to  Jim McCormack

Are you as stupid as you sound? Vaccines are not poisons. and have been proven of great value

CNN sucks!
CNN sucks!
3 years ago
Reply to  leonore35

You might want to do some research and then find out that you are an idiot.

leonore35
leonore35
3 years ago

1 case out of 384? Most scientist would ask for peer review, as they admit it is not conclusive. However there is hope as the so called Spanish flu weakened and died away

jerrys
jerrys
3 years ago

It would be counter productive for a virus to kill all its hosts, by weakening it will get to spread to many more hosts and insure its survival Damned virus’s are smarter than our government.

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