Health New Coronavirus in China

Antibody treatments for Covid 19...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/feat...e-best-hope-against-the-virus-until-a-vaccine


Isn't it just wonderful that people upset about the lockdowns in Michigan and Paris choose to protest by going mask less to pack together like sardines in a can and scream and shout. Bravo.

Like I said, to some extent this is a culling event.


Didn't I just see an article about how well Japan handled all this and we should take lessons?
"[h=2]Japan's healthcare system 'is on the verge of collapse': Expert warns country is struggling with coronavirus – and says Olympics will still not be able to go ahead in 2021[/h]
  • Kentaro Iwata is a professor of infectious diseases at Kobe University
  • There have been 171 deaths recorded so far in Japan and 10,751 cases
  • Mr Iwata criticised country's failure to change strategy as outbreak intensified
  • 'The system is on the verge of collapse in many places in Japan,' he said
  • Added that Olympics, which was postponed, will likely still not go ahead
  • Said it is very unlikely Japan will have virus under control by next summer "

Well, so much for that.
 
Well, here's an interesting way of looking at the data:percentage of men over 80 versus Case Fatality Rate overall

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So, what you do right gets you in another way. How typical of life.
 
Been watching MSNBC tonight after work... I have some observations and some questions.

1. Why do the talking heads on this station seem almost disappointed that we have reached the Covid peak in NYC? You would think they would be joyful at such developments.

2. Those suffering in the deepest, darkest chasms of Trump Derangement Syndrome (Nicole Wallace, Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzenski, and their panel members-- largely the oustest F.B.I. clan responsible for the RussiaGate embarrassment) are literally screeching about "Trump's mishandling" of Covid… forgetting that he shut off travelers from China and later Europe resulting in the saving of countless lives-- yet they are oddly ignoring all the recent declassification that new head of the intel community has uncovered. This declass is showing how bad the corruption was under the Obama admin. What's that saying about "Thou protest too much"?

3. Finally, the statements that Bill Gates made on his own Reddit AMA have done more to motivate the "get back to work crowd" than anything President Trump could do. There is a gulf that separates the left and the right and Bill Gates words/actions has served as jet fuel to catapult those conservatives who appreciate freedom over comfort back into the workforce.

P.S. The action I am referring to is his funding of the development of those invisible tattoos-- the ones that can be scanned by any smart phone, that are designed to carry personal healthcare data, and that last for five years on the skin. Hey Bill, ya startin' to freak me out. I am guessing grandma Margaret Sanger would like this stuff though.
 
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Please let's keep partisan internal politics out of this as much as possible. Pretty soon people are at loggerheads, and we're not sharing helpful information.
 
Isn't it just wonderful that people upset about the lockdowns in Michigan and Paris choose to protest by going mask less to pack together like sardines in a can and scream and shout. Bravo.

Like I said, to some extent this is a culling event.

Hmmmm. Okay.
 
I excluded Hubei and mainland China,
I am not sure If I should trust data, that after 1 month, raise the deaths by 50%, so numbers to be seen as same class with others,

Observations, upon matrix,
the East-West of Alps in Europe as concerns spread of virus is obvious, huge differences,
But this has nothing to do with Mortality, S Balkans and Hungary, show higher mortality than some West of Alps, with multiple times infection,
if S Balkans had the big spread of W Europe, then we could speak about a massacre,

something simmilar in USA but oposite sides,
There East seems to suffer more than West,

NOTICE: the last column, the confirmed damage on total population is after 10 000 not 1 000



COUNTRYPopulation /1000Confirmed infecteddeaths upon confirmedConfirmed infected /1000 people

COUNTRYCurrent Mortality of conf.Mortality 3 APR

COUNTRYDeaths /10000 population























1NY city USA81751387001460416,9664
1Belgium 0,14580,0659
1NY city USA17,8642
2San Marino334623914,0000
2Italy 0,13310,1207
2San Marino11,8182
3Andora76717399,4342
3UK0,13230,0866
3Andora5,1316
4Luxenbourg6143558755,7948
4France 0,13050,0911
4Belgium 5,0608
5Iceland 3641773104,8709
5Netherlands 0,11230,0911
5Spain 4,4619
6Spain 46733200210208524,2841
6sweden 0,10690,0553
6Italy 3,9978
7Feroe isls5218503,5577
7NY city USA0,1053-
7France 3,0236
8Belgium 115163998358283,4720
8Spain 0,10420,0923
8UK2,4441
9Swiss85702794414293,2607
9Hungary0,10030,0417
9Netherlands 2,1527
10Italy 60318181228241143,0045
10EU0,09720,0756
10EU1,8982
11USA328240786638422952,3965
11San Marino0,08440,1224
11Swiss1,6674
12Ireland 6573156526872,3813
12Slovenia0,05770,0190
12sweden 1,5335
13France 67022155275202652,3168
13Andora0,05440,0280
13USA1,2885
14Liechtenstein398112,0769
14USA0,05380,0247
14Luxenbourg1,2215
15Portugal 10277208637352,0301
15Romania 0,05350,0424
15Ireland 1,0452
16EU449507877613853251,9524
16Greece 0,05170,0343
16Portugal 0,7152
17Netherlands 174253340537511,9171
17Swiss0,05110,0285
17LA Cal USA0,6304
18UK67547124743165091,8468
18Denmark 0,05090,0363
18Denmark 0,6251
19Deutch 8314914706548621,7687
19Bulgaria 0,04630,0252
19Deutch 0,5847
20Austria 8903147954701,6618
20LA Cal USA0,0448-
20Austria 0,5279
21sweden 103031477715801,4342
21Albania 0,04450,0578
21Slovenia0,3667
22LA Cal USA9819138236191,4078
22Severna Mac 0,04410,0286
22Norway 0,3372
23Norway 536871561811,3331
23Ireland 0,04390,0255
23Esthonia 0,3012
24Denmark 582371553641,2287
24Poland0,03960,0193
24Iceland 0,2747
25Esthonia 13281535401,1559
25Bosnia 0,03740,0295
25Moldova0,2610
26Turkey 820049098021401,1095
26Portugal 0,03520,0231
26Turkey 0,2610
27Serbia 696466301250,9520
27Deutch 0,03310,0131
27Severna Mac 0,2600
28Moldova26822548700,9500
28Austria 0,03180,0141
28Liechtenstein0,2564
29Malta 49443130,8725
29Czech 0,02810,0119
29Romania 0,2464
30Finland 55213868980,7006
30Lithuania 0,02790,0129
30Hungary0,2036
31Belarus 94926264510,6599
31Moldova0,02750,0119
31Czech 0,1822
32Cyprus1189772120,6493
32Ukraine 0,02640,0244
32Serbia 0,1795
33Czech 1065069001940,6479
33Esthonia 0,02610,0128
33Finland 0,1775
34Slovenia21001335770,6357
34Finland 0,02530,0118
34Bosnia 0,1396
35Severna Mac 20771225540,5898
35Norway 0,02530,0096
35Lithuania 0,1324
36Montenegro63131250,4945
36Croatia 0,02500,0069
36Croatia 0,1153
37Lithuania 27941326370,4746
37Kossovo0,02350,0079
37Greece 0,1077
38Croatia 40761881470,4615
38Turkey 0,02350,0196
38Cyprus0,1009
39Romania 1940289364780,4606
39Luxenbourg0,02110,0121
39Poland0,0990
40Lettonia 192073950,3849
40Serbia 0,01890,0265
40Albania 0,0904
41Bosnia 35111309490,3728
41Montenegro0,01600,0125
41Montenegro0,0792
42Russia 146745471214050,3211
42Cyprus0,01550,0281
42Kossovo0,0663
43Kossovo1810510120,2818
43Liechtenstein0,01230,0000
43Bulgaria 0,0614
44Poland3838695933800,2499
44Slovakia 0,01110,0023
44Malta 0,0607
45Slovakia 54501173130,2152
45Russia 0,00860,0082
45Belarus 0,0537
46Greece 1076822451160,2085
46Belarus 0,00810,0132
46Ukraine 0,0359
47Hungary977319841990,2030
47Malta 0,00700,0000
47Russia 0,0276
48Albania 2877584260,2030
48Lettonia 0,00680,0000
48Lettonia 0,0260
49Ukraine 4203157101510,1359
49Iceland 0,00560,0030
49Slovakia 0,0239
50Bulgaria 7000929430,1327
50Feroe isls0,00000,0000
50Feroe isls0,0000
 
[FONT=&quot]"Only a tiny proportion of the global population – maybe as few as 2% or 3% – appear to have antibodies in the blood showing they have been infected with Covid-19, according to the [/FONT]World Health Organization[FONT=&quot], a finding that bodes ill for hopes that herd immunity will ease the exit from lockdown."[/FONT]
 
"Only a tiny proportion of the global population – maybe as few as 2% or 3% – appear to have antibodies in the blood showing they have been infected with Covid-19, according to the World Health Organization, a finding that bodes ill for hopes that herd immunity will ease the exit from lockdown."

The link doesn't go to the story, here it is:

https://www.theguardian.com/society...t-very-few-have-had-covid-19-without-symptoms

Only a tiny proportion of the global population – maybe as few as 2% or 3% – appear to have antibodies in the blood showing they have been infected with Covid-19, according to the World Health Organization, a finding that bodes ill for hopes that herd immunity will ease the exit from lockdown.


“Easing restrictions is not the end of the epidemic in any country,” said WHO director-general Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus at a media briefing in Geneva on Monday. “So-called lockdowns can help to take the heat out of a country’s epidemic.”
But serological testing to find out how large a proportion of the population have had the infection and developed antibodies to it – which it is hoped will mean they have some level of immunity – suggests that the numbers are low.


“Early data suggests that a relatively small percentage of the populations may have been infected,” Tedros said. “Not more than 2%-3%.”


Dr Maria Van Kerkhove, an American infectious diseases expert who is the WHO’s technical lead on Covid-19, said they had thought the number of people infected would be higher, but she stressed it was still too early to be sure. “Initially, we see a lower proportion of people with antibodies than we were expecting,” she said. “A lower number of people are infected.”


On Friday, a study carried out in Santa Clara, California by Stanford University and released as a “pre-print” without peer review, found that 50 to 85 times more people had been infected with the virus than official figures showed.
Santa Clara county had 1,094 confirmed cases of Covid-19 at the time the study was carried out, but antibody tests suggest that between 48,000 and 81,000 people had been infected by early April, most of whom did not develop symptoms.

But even those high figures mean that within the whole population of the county, only 3% have been infected and have antibodies to the virus. A study in the Netherlands of 7,000 blood donors also found that just 3% had antibodies.

Van Kerkhove said they needed to look carefully at the way the studies were being carried out. “A number of studies we are aware of in pre-print have suggested that small proportions of the population [have antibodies],” she said. These were “in single digits, up to 14% in Germany and France”. “It is really important to understand how the studies were done.”

That would include asking how they found the people to test. Was it at random or were they blood donors, who tend to be healthy adults? They would also need to look at how well the blood tests were performed.

“We are working with a number of countries carrying out these serology studies,” she added. The WHO-supported studies would use robust methods and the tests would be validated for accuracy.
The hope will be that people who have had Covid-19 will be able to resume their lives. But Van Kerkhove last week said that even if tests showed a person had antibodies, it did not prove that they were immune.

“There are a lot of countries that are suggesting using rapid diagnostic serological tests to be able to capture what they think will be a measure of immunity,” she said. “Right now, we have no evidence that the use of a serological test can show that an individual has immunity or is protected from reinfection.”


• The headline and opening paragraph of this article were amended on 20 April 2020 to clarify that the 2%-3% figure cited by the WHO referred to the population as a whole.

It is not saying that only 2%-3% of infected people have antibodies, it is saying 2%-3% are infected and have antibodies. Note the amendment at the bottom.

So what is this article and the WHO saying exactly? That 100% of that 2%-3% of infected have the antibodies?

Also, I recall reading that those tests aren't very accurate at the moment, probably because many of them were made in China. Nor were they approved by the FDA:

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/unapproved-chinese-coronavirus-antibody-tests-being-used-least-2-states-n1185131


I thought 70% of Germans could become infected according to Angela Merkel:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51835856
 
Antibody treatments for Covid 19...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/feat...e-best-hope-against-the-virus-until-a-vaccine


Isn't it just wonderful that people upset about the lockdowns in Michigan and Paris choose to protest by going mask less to pack together like sardines in a can and scream and shout. Bravo.

Like I said, to some extent this is a culling event.


Didn't I just see an article about how well Japan handled all this and we should take lessons?
"Japan's healthcare system 'is on the verge of collapse': Expert warns country is struggling with coronavirus – and says Olympics will still not be able to go ahead in 2021


  • Kentaro Iwata is a professor of infectious diseases at Kobe University
  • There have been 171 deaths recorded so far in Japan and 10,751 cases
  • Mr Iwata criticised country's failure to change strategy as outbreak intensified
  • 'The system is on the verge of collapse in many places in Japan,' he said
  • Added that Olympics, which was postponed, will likely still not go ahead
  • Said it is very unlikely Japan will have virus under control by next summer "

Well, so much for that.

10751 cases and 171 deaths and it's on the verge of collapse? Somebody is exaggerating!
 
It is raining for two days, nature is recovering. Change your tickets to another destination.

I hope it lasts a whole week, I love it
 
It is raining for two days, nature is recovering. Change your tickets to another destination.

I hope it lasts a whole week, I love it

you're changing nationality?

no rain here, it moved south where they need it, I love it too
 
[FONT="]"Only a tiny proportion of the global population – maybe as few as 2% or 3% – appear to have antibodies in the blood showing they have been infected with Covid-19, according to the [/FONT][/COLOR][URL="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world-health-organization"]World Health Organization[/URL][FONT="], a finding that bodes ill for hopes that herd immunity will ease the exit from lockdown."[/FONT]

that doesn't look good
furthermore, we still don't know how long immunity lasts
 
Again this is not a randomized trial it's rather a observational after the fact study:

[FONT=&quot]Researchers analyzed medical records of 368 male veterans hospitalized with confirmed coronavirus infection at Veterans Health Administration medical centers who died or were discharged by April 11.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]About 28% who were given hydroxychloroquine plus usual care died, versus 11% of those getting routine care alone. About 22% of those getting the drug plus azithromycin died too, but the difference between that group and usual care was not considered large enough to rule out other factors that could have affected survival.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Hydroxychloroquine made no difference in the need for a breathing machine, either.[/FONT]
https://www.yahoo.com/news/more-deaths-no-benefit-malaria-160619592.html
 
that doesn't look good
furthermore, we still don't know how long immunity lasts

[FONT=Verdana,Arial,Tahoma,Calibri,Geneva,sans-serif]https://www.eupedia.com/forum/threads/39756-New-Coronavirus-in-China/page58?p=601828&viewfull=1#post601828[/FONT]
 
For anyone who still wants to say this is overblown, I'd point out that what happened in hospitals in New York and Lombardia and is happening in England is not what happens in a bad influenza year, unless you're talking about the Spanish Flu.The hospitals could not deal with it, whether the first models were wrong or not.

I'd also ask, if that happened in Lombardia and that hard hit area in Germany with 15% infection rate, or even let's say a 30% infection rate in some places, what would have happened with an 80% infection rate?

At some point people have to use some common sense, and not argue from their partisan political proclivities.

Also, we all know that the "death" counts can't be counted on. Some countries include those who died in old age and care homes, and some are only counting hospital deaths, some don't count you if you haven't had a blood test proving you were infected by Covid 19, i.e. Germany.

Then there are the people who die of other things, i.e. from stress caused heart attacks or because they can't get the treatment they need.

One good measure is comparing deaths this time last year versus this year.

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Then there are the reports that in those who survive it there might be irreversible lung, heart and neurological damage.

I just don't get it. How can you deny the obvious? OK, it's not as lethal as Ebola. Does that mean we should just all have gone out and spread it? I'm all for re-opening. Forget about us; 40 families rely on my husband's business. How long is the government going to be able to help us cover their salaries and withholding; they're not minimum wage earners by a long shot. Just make sure the level of new cases is low enough for contact tracing and isolation, and there are masks for people and they're wearing them.

And don't get me started on the face mask thing. The NHS in England is pressuring the government not to recommend face masks because the NHS doesn't have enough for health care workers. That was the rationale of the WHO despite the fact that the Chinese and people in Hong Kong and many other places have done it since SARS. Has it not occurred to them that no face masks for the public means more patients and therefore exposure for them, not necessarily because they protect you, but because you can infect others? Tell people to wear cloth masks at least for Christ's sake.

Given our wide spread stupidity it's a miracle we didn't go extinct long ago.
 
Spencer Wells is still insisting some "strains" are more dangerous than others, this time citing a new paper from China. Since it's from China and we know they announced stringent new rules for publishing, take it as you like..

IMPORTANT: The most aggressive strains of Sars-CoV-2 could generate 270 times as much viral load as the least potent type

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/sci...tions-affect-deadliness-strains-chinese-study


 
One good measure is comparing deaths this time last year versus this year.

I hope you understand the unexpected,

you mention a country before,
I will make devils advocate,
At least this country has done a very good test coverage over population, and has a good analogy as concerns positive /tests,
and was prepared better by having more Units per population than average EU countries had,

but better look others, some outside EU,

some hidden deaths, that are above average, and no coronavirus confirmed,

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There is a city, big city (not speaking about NY, or Hubei) that the hidden deaths*, are equal to the confirmed of the country. :wary2:
but nobody cares, not even WHO,
they broke all records of lies about Coronavirus statistics, but none mention them,
People are dying there in order to serve cruel politicians

*hidden deaths = total2020 - average 2017-19 - confirmed Covid2020 (exact starting day in each country is different, mainly Feb Mar Apr 2020)

BTW1
in Hubei the confirmed deaths were 3300, they raise them by 1200 one month after to 4500 so the numbers to be 'realistic' comparing others, :unsure:
but the coffins were above 42 000 !!!!!!!!! :unsure:


BTW2
there are politicians who 'adore' coronavirus pandemia,
'killing' the aged ones, they will pay less budget to retirements
'killing' the ones with secondary diseases, for them is less money for public health-insurance.

we are stuck infront a tree, suffer from monilia and alternalia,
for why one branch is more dry than another,
and we lose the next tree same time
 
[h=2]Coronavirus has mutated to become far deadlier in Europe than the milder strain that made its way to the US west coast, Chinese study claims[/h]Daily Mail - [FONT=&quot]Mary Kekatos Senior Health Reporter For Dailymail.com[/FONT][FONT=&quot]22:28 20 Apr 2020, updated 12:12 21 Apr 2020

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[FONT=&quot]There could be as many as 30 different strains of coronavirus, a study of patients in China has claimed.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Zhejiang University scientists studied a small number of patients with the disease and uncovered tens of mutations - 19 of which had never been seen before.

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[FONT=&quot]Some mutations boosted the virus' ability to invade cells in the body, others helped the disease multiply more rapidly. [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]The most deadly strains were genetically similar to the ones that spread in Europe and in New York, reported the South China Morning Post. [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Meanwhile, the weaker strains were similar to those found circulating within other parts of the US, such as Washington State. [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]The authors say their findings - based on just 11 patients - are the first to show the mutation could affect the severity of illness.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]They believe the previously unreported mutations could be the reason behind Europe and New York's devastating death tolls. [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]It is still unclear why the aggressive strain of COVID-19 spread to Europe and the more mild version hit large swathes of the US.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]But scientists say viruses are constantly mutating to overcome immune system resistance in different populations.

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[h=3]THREE TYPES OF THE CORONAVIRUS ARE SPREADING AROUND THE WORLD[/h][FONT=&quot]Three types of the deadly coronavirus are spreading around the world - and the US is being rocked by the original strain from China.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Cambridge University researchers mapped the genetic history of the infection from December to March and found three distinct, but closely related, variants.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Analysis of the strains showed type A - the original virus that jumped to humans from bats via pangolins - was not China's most common. Instead, the pandemic's ground-zero was mainly hit by type B, which was in circulation as far back as Christmas Eve.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Results showed type A was the most prevalent in Australia and the US, which has recorded more than 400,000 COVID-19 cases. Two-thirds of American samples were type A - but infected patients mostly came from the West Coast, and not New York.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Dr Peter Forster and team found the UK was mostly being bombarded with type B cases, with three quarters of samples testing as that strain. Switzerland, Germany, France, Belgium and the Netherlands were also dominated by type B.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Another distinct variation, type C, descended from type B and spread to Europe via Singapore.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Scientists believe the virus - officially called SARS-CoV-2 - is constantly mutating to overcome immune system resistance in different populations.

It comes on the heels of studies that claim the US was hit by two different clusters of the coronavirus, with type A dominating the West Coast and the deadlier type B in New York.

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[FONT=&quot]Experts say the type A outbreak was spread to the US from China, where as the crisis in New York likely came from Europe - which was also rocked by type B. [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]For the latest study, published on the pre-print service medRxiv.org, the team analyzed viral strains from 11 Chinese coronavirus patients.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]The team, conducted by Professor Li Lanjuan and colleagues, tested how effectively the virus could infect and kill human cells in the laboratory.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Viral load - the amount of the virus - was assessed in all the cells after one, two, four and eight hours, as well as the next day and 48 hours later. [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]And the experts also looked at the cytopathic effects - whether the virus structurally changed the cell during infection - up to three days after the experiment. [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]The most aggressive strains created up to 270 times as much viral load as the least potent type, according to the results.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]And the strains that produced the highest viral load led to a 'higher cell death ratio', Professor Li and her team revealed. [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Writing in their paper, the team said: 'Our results show the observed mutations can have a direct impact on the viral load and CPE. [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]'This finding suggests the observed mutations in our study... can significantly impact the pathogenicity (the ability to cause disease) of SARS-CoV-2.'

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[h=3]WHAT DID THE STUDY FIND?[/h]Zhejiang University scientists studied a 11 patients with the disease.
The found 30 different mutations - 19 of which had never been seen before.
They did this by testing how effectively the virus could infect and kill human cells in the laboratory.
Viral load - the amount of the virus - was assessed in all the cells after one, two, four and eight hours, as well as the next day and 48 hours later.
And the experts also looked at the cytopathic effects - whether the virus structurally changed the cell during infection - up to three days after the experiment.
The most aggressive strains created up to 270 times as much viral load as the least potent type, according to the results.
And the strains that produced the highest viral load led to a 'higher cell death ratio'.
[FONT=&quot]The team found some of the deadliest mutations in Zhejiang, where the university is located.

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[FONT=&quot]These mutations had also been seen in several hard-hit European countries such as Italy and Spain - before spreading to the US epicenter New York. [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]However, some of the milder mutations were the varieties largely found in the US, including Washington state, which could be the strain that shut down Wuhan, where the virus originated. [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]But the scientists admitted that the 'full mutational diversity of the virus in Wuhan in the early days is still unknown'.

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[FONT=&quot]These mutations had also been seen in several hard-hit European countries such as Italy and Spain - before spreading to the US epicenter New York. [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]However, some of the milder mutations were the varieties largely found in the US, including Washington state, which could be the strain that shut down Wuhan, where the virus originated. [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]But the scientists admitted that the 'full mutational diversity of the virus in Wuhan in the early days is still unknown'.

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[FONT=&quot]The researchers warned that just because the mutations were milder, it didn't mean there was a low risk of mortality.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Ten of the 11 patients who were studied had clear connections with Wuhan, the city where the pandemic began in December.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]All of the patients - aged between four months and 71 - recovered. Eight were men, and three were women. [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Two patients in Zhejiang, one in their 30s and one in their 50s, became severely ill after contracting weaker strains.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Although both of the patients recovered, the older patient required treatment in a hospital's intensive care unit.

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[h=3]HOW DOES CORONAVIRUS HIDE IN THE BODY?[/h]The SARS-CoV-2 virus has a large number of spikes sticking out of its surface which it uses to attach to and enter cells in the human body.
These spikes are coated in sugars, known as glycans, which disguise their viral proteins and help them evade the body's immune system.
'By coating themselves in sugars, viruses are like a wolf in sheep's clothing,' explained Professor Crispin.
The coronavirus has a relatively low level of sugar shielding.
The lower glycan density means there are fewer obstacles for the immune system to neutralise the virus with antibodies.
[FONT=&quot]Researchers detected about 30 mutations in total. About 60 percent of them, or 19, were new. [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]The authors say that patients with COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus, have been receiving the same treatment at hospital regardless of what strain they have. [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]They say that strains may need different efforts to fight the virus, which undergoes one mutation a month, scientists say.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]'Drug and vaccine development, while urgent, need to take the impact of these accumulating mutations...into account to avoid potential pitfalls,' the researchers said. [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Worldwide, more than 2.45million people have been infected and more than 168,000 people have died.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]In the US, there are more than 771,000 confirmed cases of the virus and more than 41,000 deaths. [/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]HOW AMERICA WAS HIT WITH COVID-19 FROM TWO CONTINENTS: MAJORITY OF CASES IN NEW YORK CAME FROM EUROPE WHILE DIFFERENT STRAIN FROM CHINA HIT WEST COAST [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]By Natalie Rahhal, Acting US Health Editor for DailyMail.com [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Most Americans with coronavirus are infected with a strain that came from Europe - but the strain that shut down Wuhan, China spread on the West Coast, recent research shows. [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Coronavirus likely came to the US first from Europe, circulating unseen among New Yorkers for weeks before the state's first case was diagnosed, and even before it arrived in Washington state, where the first American case was confirmed. [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]It's this European strain that's driven the majority of infections in the US, now concentrated in New York and the East Coast, not the strain of the virus most prevalent in China, according to a new analysis of viral genomes by the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]A second strain struck the West Coast and likely arrived later from China, despite the fact that a man who traveled back to the US from China was the first identified American infected with COVID-19.

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[FONT=&quot]Researchers at Nextstrain.org, traced the virus strains, coded in bright colors on an interactive map as they've criss-crossed the globe and multiplied in number from the first iteration of coronavirus in China. [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]The authors of the new Cambridge University study dubbed the first strain to hit humans 'type A.' [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]But the original didn't linger long in China, instead jumping to and taking hold in Japan, Australia and the US. [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Instead, a mutated version of the virus - type B - arose and became the dominant spread in China, before moving on to Europe, South America and Canada.

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[FONT=&quot]Still a third strain, type C, became the dominant version of COVID-19 in Singapore, Italy and Hong Kong, according to the Cambridge analysis of viral genomes in samples from coronavirus patients. [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/...lved-far-deadlier-spread-Europe-New-York.html
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