Current Events > BREAKING: Mutation could make coronavirus more infectious, study suggests

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Researchers in Florida say they believe they have shown that the new coronavirus has mutated in a way that makes it more easily infect human cells.

The researchers at the Scripps Research Institute in Florida said the mutation affects the spike protein -- a structure on the outside of the virus that it uses to get into cells. If the findings are confirmed, it would be the first time someone has demonstrated that changes seen in the virus have significance for the pandemic.

"Viruses with this mutation were much more infectious than those without the mutation in the cell culture system we used," Scripps Research virologist Hyeryun Choe, who helped lead the study, said in a statement.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/12/health/coronavirus-mutations-scripps-gene/index.html

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"This virus is going to respond to whatever we do to control it. We make a drug, it is going to resist it. We make a vaccine, it is going to try to get around it. We stay at home, it is going to figure out how to hang around longer,"

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If we survive this virus, humans should weaponize it for defense against alien invasions

sLaCkEr408___RJ posted...

If we survive this virus, humans should weaponize it for defense against alien invasions

This sounds like a back story for why all humans are extinct and only robots are left on earth.

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Jabodie posted...

This sounds like a back story for why all humans are extinct and only robots are left on probably goingearth.

Damn you're right. Well COVID-19 is probably going in the vault with Ebola and small pox anyway

Maybe this means that it's also less deadly
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MrFingers07 posted...

Maybe this means that it's also less deadly

Sometimes that happens yeah so lets keep our fingers crossed

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MrFingers07 posted...

Maybe this means that it's also less deadly

infections may go up. the death's appear the same with or without pre-existing conditions.
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All that's left are Brazilian bats to help it mutate to crank up the kdr and that 4chan post will have predicted everything

Fossil posted...

All that's left are Brazilian bats to help it mutate to crank up the kdr and that 4chan post will have predicted everything

Thats what has me terrified and I can see it happening too.