>>14873902 (PB)

In an earlier bread this stringer was posted, talking about the new Delta variant. I get the feeling this might need a dig anons.

How bad is this new variant?

Anonymous 10/28/21 (Thu) 16:37:43af2dfe (1) No.14873902

>AY.4.2

>“delta plus”

>(A222V and Y145H)

>WHITE CROSS

>RED FLAG

>ITS IN THE AIR

>MEMO 54

>NODE 4120

>N.T. 86’D

Newsweek

What We Know About the 'Delta Plus' AY.4.2 COVID Mutations Y145H and A222V

Ed Browne 3 days ago

The COVID variant AY.4.2, also being referred to as the new "Delta Plus," continues to spread around the world, and scientists are still trying to figure out exactly how it works.

The variant is an offshoot of the COVID Delta variant AY.4., which itself is an offshoot of the original Delta. Scientists know that AY.4.2 is characterized by two mutations in its spike protein—a spike on the surface of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that allows it to enter human cells.

These two mutations are called Y145H and A222V, and there's not a lot that researchers know about them just yet—though it appears that AY.4.2 may have a "modestly increased" growth rate compared to the normal Delta variant, according to the U.K. Health Security Agency (HSA).

Dr. Scott Wesley Long, Associate Professor of Pathology and Genomic Medicine at Texas' Houston Methodist hospital, told Newsweek that out of AY.4.2's mutations, A222V is the better understood one having been seen before in different COVID variants as far back as the spring of 2020.

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/what-we-know-about-the-delta-plus-ay42-covid-mutations-y145h-and-a222v/ar-AAPW3Ub