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How then did this even become a"variant of concern" if so little is known about it?
by chana_masala 5y ago
How then did this even become a"variant of concern" if so little is known about it?
- Trasmatta 5y agoThe rate at which they noticed it spreading in SA and the number and type of mutations.
- woodruffw 5y agoThe "concern" in "variant of concern" is a function of the number of potentially significant mutations in the spike protein. It's an indicator of unknowns (and therefore unknown risks), not a positive indicator of risk.
- Gibbon1 5y agoBecause it's it became the most dominant strain of covid in SA in about two weeks. And it has a massive number of mutations compared to other strains. The former might be partly due to the collapse of last wave of delta. Latter tends to scare immunologists.