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Omicron variant may have picked up a piece of common-cold virus

Author: tosh

Score: 12

Comments: 8

Date: 2021-12-03 23:31:23

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JakeAl wrote at 2021-12-04 02:34:02:

If you want to stay on top of Omicron/Coronovirus info, follow Dr. John Campbell on YouTube. He is the most up to date source I am aware of and covers things you often never hear anywhere else and if you do takes weeks or longer before anyone else talks about it.

https://www.youtube.com/c/Campbellteaching/videos

deepserket wrote at 2021-12-04 06:42:16:

another interesting source is

https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com

wahern wrote at 2021-12-04 02:05:43:

This would have been infinitely more interesting it was something like rhinovirus. But in this case it appears to be gene swapping with another coronavirus, which is not very interesting from a high-level perspective, though I'm sure noteworthy for those researching the finer mechanics of viral evolution.

Yaa101 wrote at 2021-12-04 03:14:49:

Maybe interesting enough if HIV is spreading in the future without people having sex?

If SARS-CoV-2 picked up the genetic sequence from HCoV-229E or HIV then what is stopping things going the other way around?

It could also be the start of SARS-CoV-2 becoming endemic and mild.

Either way, things are interesting from a virologist view.

proc0 wrote at 2021-12-04 04:12:44:

likely acquired at least one of its mutations by picking up a snippet of genetic material from another virus

picking up a snippet

whaaaaaaaa?! How does a virus "pick up a snippet"?? Did they mean it coincidentally mutated to have the same sequence? How would it combine with another virus, and why hasn't it done this last year?

captainbland wrote at 2021-12-04 11:38:55:

My understanding is coronaviruses (and others) can recombine if a host is infected with two variants. Another possibility is horizontal gene transfer. But the reporting of this kind of stuff is usually quite vague, possibly because the precise mechanism hasn't been clearly identified.

proc0 wrote at 2021-12-04 22:11:42:

Yeah that article is at least poorly written. I don't think DNA just recombines in the wild like that, we would see examples of this all over the place, and the way animals do it is through sex and reproduction. I'll have to do some searching for specifics.

PraetorianGourd wrote at 2021-12-04 03:21:12:

Way too early to draw any conclusions at all, but if it is true that omicron is both more contagious and produces more mild symptoms, that is almost better news than the vaccines.

sieabahlpark wrote at 2021-12-04 01:02:32:

Would it not be a common cold at this point?