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Journalist @ Enemy In A State. "Gutter Journo" who, unfortunately, has to report from the gutter, as that's where 99.9% of politicians dwell

Mar 22, 2022, 13 tweets

Omicron: BA4—Looks like a new recombination sub-variant/possibly variant has been found: believed to be a recombination of BA1 and BA3 at the moment: sequences found in South Africa, US and Puerto Rico so far:

BA4 is here: only a few sequences have been detected so far, but this is obviously going to be a massive undercount.

Now that the recombinations are coming thick and fast much has been said about the 'inevitability' of such hybrids: however, for some reason the focus is only ever on Sars 2 variants breeding with each other:

For reasons that have never been made clear the fact that Sars2 is capable of breeding with any other RNA virus is never talked about: surely the risk is not just recombination of Sars 2 variants, but recombination with other RNA viruses too?

BA4 spreading around the world.

Like a recombination of BA1 and BA3: though remains unclear. The variant production line known as the UK has probably already taken this sub-variant and bred an even worse one:

2 unique mutations found in spike: not good news AT ALL:

Something else that has been totally ignored is just how different BA2 and BA3 actually are from BA1: as different as Alpha is from Delta—BA4 venn diagram illustrates the similarities and differences:

Unique mutations illustrated here:

Good news here, virus research has shown that it's possible to recombine 15 different viruses and churn out a new one:

Full article here:

forbes.com/sites/williamh…

The variants and combinations are almost limitless–contrary to popular doctrine: the threat of breeding a new much more severe and immunity evading variant out of all this has never been greater.

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