The Latest: What you should know about the mutation
Dear Reader,
The new variant of the coronavirus — called B.1.1.7 — is becoming more widespread in the United States. This is concerning, because while many virus mutations are benign, this one has made the virus more contagious.
As Robert Roy Britt reports, this means the virus could rapidly increase the number of people infected with Covid-19, which will then significantly increase the number of people hospitalized. Hospitals in the United States are already under significant pressure from the pandemic. You do not want to get Covid-19 right now. Actually, you don’t want any kind of medical emergency right now.
A frustrating aspect of this pandemic is getting enough people to care. The amount of photos of people gathering in large groups unmasked and indoors over the holidays was deeply shocking. (Also, as my colleague wrote recently, do you really have to post your dinner party putting people’s lives in danger!?)
The vaccines need to be distributed as quickly as possible, and hopefully the hiccups so far will be remedied. In the meantime, people need to be vigilant and follow the precautions we’ve learned so far. Wear a mask and seriously stop gathering with people outside your household indoors. Now that the vaccines are quite literally here, do what you can to not get infected. We got this!
Be well,
Alexandra Sifferlin
Editor, Medium Coronavirus Blog
Me: It is interesting that the powerful, behind the scenes, refuse to let any other form of Coronavirus control be publicized in the media, because the only treatment they want you all to have, is their vaccine and anything else is dismissed from the newspapers and media, because of the vast sums of money their vaccines generate.
Let me put this a different way. They cannot vaccinate every animal on this planet and as long as Coronavirus can mutate between species, as it already has, it is never going to go away, only get stronger and more resistant to vaccines so the cash flow will never cease to exist for those who prepare and manufacture the vaccines, but if Coronavirus was stopped dead, using salt and water, for example, then nobody would get Covid and then there would be no need for vaccines, would there?
You notice how they call this new variant Covid-19, but it is not Covid-19, it is a new variant, so there is no guarantee the patchwork of vaccines for Covid-19 would be effective with this one, because the spike that present vaccines target, does not apply to this new variant, which works differently it appears.
Um!!