CNN's senior medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen reports on a batch of similar troubling mutations in coronavirus samples circulating in the United States. They've not only drawn attention to them; they've come up with a better shorthand for referring to them. They've named them after birds.
The mutations all affect the same stretch of the spike protein — the knob-like extension on the outside of the virus that it uses to dock onto the cells it infects, the researchers wrote in a pre-print report. It's not peer reviewed yet, but researchers are rushing such findings online to share them quickly with other experts.
The genetic stretch that is mutated, or changed, is called 677. The various changes are so similar that the researchers think evolution favors these particular variants. And it's in a troubling place, said Vaughn Cooper, director of the Center for Evolutionary Biology and Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, who worked on the study.
"This stretch of Spike is important because of its proximity to a region key for virulence," Cooper told CNN via email.
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Homegrown coronavirus variants: What you need to know
Almost as dumb as the “color chart” for the virus. Maybe the birds do care.
GOD DEFEND TRUMP
@EDUARDO OLIVER OLIVER 🤦♂️
and now the bird hunting season starts….
No call them USA variants. Y’all dont mind stigmatizing other nations lol
Exactly
@Calvin Parish schadenfreude is irresistible 🙂
Must be a really deadly variant there is no cure for…best to wear your mask and hide…….
Let’s call them “donald”, “eric” and “ivanka”.
@Jean Roch and the names of the senators who voted to acquit
I remember when “home grown” was slang for trash weed. 😩
@Jogn before you repeat those kind of fabrications unchallenged. How about you prove up. I will wait for the link. Unless it’s from the National Enquirer or Ny Times. (Same thing) TBH I imagine I will get old and die first but I’m patient.😉
@Jey Frye search on YouTube “Trump daughters legs” and click the first video. He also talks about his new born daughter’s Breasts in that video. If you want information on the other tape I was referring to, search “trump naked contestants” and click any of the videos that show up.
@Jogn but your perfectly fine with Biden molesting his daughter. I tried to post the link but it’s a National secret so it wont post.
https://thejewishvoice.com/2020/10/ashley-bidens-alleged-journal-circulates-online-is-it-real/
@Jey Frye when did I say that?
@MCOBNO
But what about Michelle Obamas knob?
COVID got more strains than my local dispensary
GOD DEFEND TRUMP
They gotta name one of those strain in honored of Trump.
How about chicken
@Yabachaaa Educate me.
@Calvin Parish trump wears diapers.
Dodo?
Bird names…because using COVID-19-a, COVID-19-b (etc) was too logical and simple. FML. 😂
Seriously
The thumbnail is of DNA, virus’ only have RNA. Can you do anything right?
This sounds like desperation to me. It’s all falling apart now
I thought Sloppy Joe was going to save us?
🤔 question if the birds do mind will we be dealing with Hitchcock’s the birds
“Hopefully the birds won’t mind”
Nice joke, dipstick. Notice how the logic went with Corona beer? Do you think there’s a single chance that people won’t be thinking, “Oh no! THe Robin-1 variant! Gramma! Get away from the birds!!!”? What a stupid idea.
This is the most stupid idea I’ve ever heard about. Seriously? Quail? Mockingbird? NOBODY is EVER going to use those names.
And just like that, when I say I’ve caught the damn thing at least 3 times I no longer look like I’m lying…
Lol they say the bird variant name and then they immediately say where it’s located 😂😂😂 – which would previously have been the name
Lol, that may be mildly insulting to people named Robin. 😏
Whey the hell are they putting bird names on these frightening things
That naming them after birds is going to lead to people killing those birds
Half of America will actually believe the different types come from different birds. Just like Kelley Conway thought Covid-19 was the 19th covid type. And it begins😆
“Homegrown” makes it sound like someone made them in a lab. Just call them American variants. Even if you clearly don’t want to have the name of your “glorious” nation associated with the “kung flu”.
Made in China Bioweapon. The Chinese made COVID19 via gain of function gene editing in the Wuhan Biowarfare lab
@Shiro Ishii you realize this makes no sense, right ? Let’s skip the fact that you don’t know anything about bioweapons. China had lost far more than anything it has gained in this whole fiasco. Does that sound to you like the military planning of the 5,000-year old nation that gave us Sun Tsu and the Art of War ?