This virus MUST BE ELIMINATED from Earth. Put scientists back in China. Now!
Deaths are not the only worst-case scenario. This virus is disabling people. This virus will create an enormous burden on governments if it continues it's current path.
Viruses are RNA and have a very dangerous capacity to mutate within the DNA of the host. This virus is large and ruptures cell membranes causing an immune reaction by the body which in turn causes microscopic blood clots and severe inflammation. The clots cause microscopic damage to capillaries regardless of organ and/or organ systems. Depending on comorbidities that microscopic damage will be exacerbated.
If the damage is the brain and the clots have accumulated to a larger clot the damage will cause irretrievable losses of brain function, quite possibly impacting the function of other body systems. Most every body system has nerve innovation.
This virus is far, far too dangerous to simply think it will be something people have to live with. It is very, very possible to remove this virus from Earth. There are finite living people. Every person must be safe from the virus. Vaccines may or may not be effective. No one knows exactly at this point. Because viruses are RNA, that is why I find "Moderna" a very promising company with many scientist geniuses that may hold the key to an effective vaccine. Once a vaccine is realized, it is possible for a company like "Moderna" to address the mutations as well.
Not to diminish the efforts by other companies. If the vaccine is a "general use" (as most are) vaccine that attacks the structure of coronavirus the mutations may as well be addressed and there is no worry. However, mutation just might be able to beat the vaccine and has to be addressed further.
Be aware this ability to mutate is not exclusive to SARS-CoV-2. This is a characteristic of viruses. This must be addressed and the virus eliminated. Today, we may be looking at another virus out of China, it needs to be known and evidently, the USA is the only country with the capacity in cost and personnel that is capable of a large forensic program in China to find new viruses.
The world is not that big and this is a very viable activity among countries to contain these viruses.
A study (click here) involving more than 5,000 COVID-19 patients in Houston finds that the virus that causes the disease is accumulating genetic mutations, one of which may have made it more contagious. According to the paper published in the peer-reviewed journal mBIO, that mutation, called D614G, is located in the spike protein that pries open our cells for viral entry. It’s the largest peer-reviewed study of SARS-CoV-2 genome sequences in one metropolitan region of the U.S. to date.
The paper shows “the virus is mutating due to a combination of neutral drift — which just means random genetic changes that don’t help or hurt the virus — and pressure from our immune systems,” said Ilya Finkelstein, associate professor of molecular biosciences at The University of Texas at Austin and co-author of the study. The study was carried out by scientists at Houston Methodist Hospital, UT Austin and elsewhere.
During the initial wave of the pandemic, 71% of the novel coronaviruses identified in patients in Houston had this mutation. When the second wave of the outbreak hit Houston during the summer, this variant had leaped to 99.9% prevalence. This mirrors a trend observed around the world. A study published in July based on more than 28,000 genome sequences found that variants carrying the D614G mutation became the globally dominant form of SARS-CoV-2 in about a month. SARS-CoV-2 is the coronavirus that causes COVID-19....
