1/ Deltacron,Covid,India:568 cases now reported in India as the hybrid variant picks up pace. Since first being identified by Professor Leon Kostrikis in Cyprus the Deltacron was considered 'controversial' with a few experts denying even going so far as to deny that it existed.
2/ 568 cases have been identified in India so far—meaning there are many more happening.
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2/ As we know the variant likely has an increased ability to infect cells—exactly as Prof Leon indicated back in early January (nearly 4 months ago now).

4/ Now India confirms what appears to be a growing outbreak of Deltacron in multiple states across the country:
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the variant is being found across India at quite an alarming rate—these states are not near each other. The sample amounts are extremely high actually.
6/ What's interesting is that India was one of the first places to talk about Deltacron—back in Dec 2021. At the time it was reported as 'Delmicron'
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Public health officials in areas where the variant has been found are warning people to be 'be cautious and realise that the pandemic is hardly over.'
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The variant is believed to have been spawned during the Omicron/Delta feeding frenzy of Dec:
10/ The truth is it's probably been circulating since Dec, but due the incredibly bad training of most of the labs sequencing the virus, it wasn't recognised and they mistook it as contamination
11/ This is why, Prof Kostrikis was able to identify the variant when others couldn't—do to his MANY YEARS of experience inventing PATENTED technology designed to detect SARS variants—if only he'd been listened to instead of attack by a few small IQs with microphones.
12/ Anyway, the Chief Medical Officer of Moderna was also warning MPs about the chance of the Deltacron recombination in Dec.
14/ Cases in India curremtly look flat and are pretty low, after Dec/Jan upticks (these weren't surges BTW as India for the most was perusing zero strategies at this time:

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Mar 23
1/ CDC China Stark Warning On Deltacron: 'The “Wolf” Is Indeed Coming' Recombination variant is a 'Grey Rhino' event (highly predictable, slowly emerging, obvious threat that is ignored or minimized by decision-makers) Past variants may not have been 'worst-case until now...
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China's CDC with their wealth of knowledge on Coronaviruses has decided to comment and release what appears to be a stark warning about Deltacron.

'No recombination events involving large genomic fragments (like “Deltacron”) have been found in SARS-CoV-2 before.'
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The deeply respected and knowledgeable CHINESE scientists write about the Deltacron variant, that as professor Leon Kostrikis who first identified the variant warned, it has the spike of Omicron (infectivity) mixed with Delta (implying higher severity of disease) Image
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Mar 23
Chris Whitty once again displaying that he doesn't understand this virus and never will—let's unpick this mess: Image
Whitty is a nasty piece of work: let's get that straight first and foremost—before people defend him, he was wrong about pandemics before we had a pandemic and he continues to be wrong now:

Problem 1: assumption that is seasonal: completely wrong. Image
Problem 2: assuming that there is 'no end point'—which is his way of saying of 'learn to live with it and shut up'

But, there can at any point, be an end point to the pandemic is we chose to take the right actions.
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Mar 23
1/ OMICRON UK, COVID: 40-year-old triple vaxxed mother dies of Covid after coughing up blood and having a heart attack, leaving behind 4 children—one of which has severe special needs —HEARTBREAKING Image
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Danielle Dave, age just 40 from Queen's Park in North West London recently died after being infected with Covid, during her illness she started to cough up blood and had a fatal heart attack on week 2 of it.
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Heart attacks are a well-established part of Covid infection, sometimes happening months/year (s) after even a mild case: in Omicron they seem to be happening frequently during the acute phase as well.
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Mar 23
Well what are we supposed to do then? spend the rest of our lives getting infected repeatedly, being subject to chronic illness, heart attacks, strokes, ever shortening life spans, mass disruption to everything, and eternally high levels of grief and loss? for what exactly?
All because big business doesn't want to take the virus seriously—which involves stopping the machine for a few weeks every now and then—something which is actually better for the economy and health over all?
Yeah, almost everything has a risk to it: but why should there always be a high risk of catching an easily preventable serious disease just from doing 'normal' things? You could use her arguments to argue against speeding limits, carbon limits, safe sex, airplane safety
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Mar 23
Israel, BA2, Covid: ICU admissions now starting to tick up after months of steady decline since the brutal Omicron wave which had the highest ever deaths, admissions and ICU admissions of ANY WAVE EVER. Image
Hospital admissions also starting to uptick again after months of decline: Image
Cases also upticking in line with the rise in hospitalisations: though very low levels of cases so the rise is in ICU and admissions is somewhat unexpected at this point.

Test positivity is hovering around 14% currently—which implies that they are missing A LOT of cases though.. Image
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Mar 22
It seems that the whole country is starting to go into a form of mini lockdown: schools closing, GPs closing, hospitals closing, no doubt many other things too: and we've only just started this wave–bear that in mind. THIS IS JUST THE START.
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