The data above is a bit disconcerting but expected. None of the COVID pandemic models ever considered the above. Namely the virus is mutating literally daily into more aggressive forms. Regarding mutations, we should understand the simple fact:
1. The virus reproduces at a constant rate. Each reproduction is subject to a mutation. It is a single stranded RNA virus and thus highly mutateable.
2. The longer a person is infected the more mutations.
3. Vaccines neither prevent infection nor do they prevent spread. The just reduce the duration and seriousness of the infection. This is a fact despite what Government officials have opined.
4. Thus vaccinated people are less at risk for generating mutants.
5. Unvaccinated people and those immunocompromised are at high risk for mutations as well as spreading. Again a fact omitted by Government folks.
6. Those crossing our borders, legally and otherwise, compose a high risk of infection as well as being in a pool for high mutations. Thus it is not surprising New York City is ground zero for the new mutation.
7. As long as the Government fails to communicate and control foreign entry we will see never ending mutations.
8. Fortunately we do have a ready made mitigating system with mRNA vaccines, albeit not preventative but a slowing down of mutations in those infected.
9. Understanding the dynamics of highly mutateable viruses is a poorly understood process. Yet the visceral understanding based on the facts is obvious.
As we enter the third year of this fiasco we do have means to mitigate but there needs to be leadership willing to state what we know and do not know. Frankly I never thought I would start out 2023 as I did in 2020.
A NOTE: The WHO lists well over 1,000 variants of the virus.It is worth looking at them just to see what has happened in 3 years. This will be an endless disease variation unless mutations are suppressed. The subtlety is in the fact that the virus is a single stranded RNA virus. It is more mutateable than HIV and it may have vaccine efficacy but the vaccines MUST keep up with the variants and people must be vaccinated. That is the only way to suppress the mutation rates. It is not clear how this can get across to the Press and people, not to mention our so called Public Health officials.
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