Anonymous ID: ac0014 Dec. 21, 2020, 8:43 p.m. No.12126524   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6546 >>6603 >>6690 >>6716

No reason to worry? WHO says new Covid-19 strain found in UK is no deadlier & only slightly more infectious than others

 

The World Health Organization has come forward to calm things down amid the anxiety over a new potentially ‘highly infectious’ Covid-19 strain found in the UK, saying it is not that different from other coronavirus strains.

“There is zero evidence that the new coronavirus variant increases severity of the disease,” the WHO’s Health Emergencies Program Chief Mike Ryan told at a press conference on Monday, citing data received from British scientists.

 

The risks faced by the people that catch this particular strain of the virus are pretty much the same as odds faced by other people suffering from Covid-19. According to the WHO, it is neither more aggressive, nor any deadlier than the other strains.

t does seem to be spreading somewhat easier, the health watchdog admitted. Still, its contagiousness appears to be nothing out of the ordinary and it is still much less infectious than diseases such as mumps.

 

The new strain would also hardly affect the efficacy of drugs and vaccines developed against Covid-19, the WHO Chief Scientist Soumya Swaminathan said.

 

"So far, even though we have seen a number of changes, a number of mutations, none has made a significant impact on … the susceptibility of the virus to any of the currently used therapeutics, drugs or the vaccines under development,” she said.

 

WHO officials also described a flurry of travel bans to and from the UK imposed by some two dozen of nations across the world as a move taken out of abundance of caution.

 

“We have to find a balance. It's very important to have transparency, it's very important to tell the public the way it is, but it's also important to get across that this is a normal part of virus evolution," Ryan said, while still calling this decision “prudent.”

 

https://www.rt.com/news/510376-who-uk-new-covid-strain/

Anonymous ID: ac0014 Dec. 21, 2020, 8:55 p.m. No.12126644   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Newsmax caves to Dominion and Smartmatic legal threats…

 

Newsmax caves to #Dominion and #Smartmatic. Goes further than complying with cease and desist; basically reading a press release for them. Horrifying.

 

No lawyer will advise their client to do this. Especially, while they allege they’ve reported nothing.

 

https://twitter.com/ali/status/1341100031886172168

 

“Newsmax has found no evidence that either Dominion or Smartmatic owns the other or has any business association with each other. We have no evidence that Dominion uses Smartmatic software or vice versa. No evidence has been offered that Dominion or Smartmatic used software or reprogrammed software that manipulated votes in the 2020 election.”

 

https://www.citizenfreepress.com/breaking/newsmax-caves-to-dominion-and-smartmatic-legal-threats/