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Re:Ignoring WHO call, major nations stick to vaccine booster... by croes on Thursday August 05, 2021 @12:24PM (#28075912)
It's no coincidence the variants come from areas with lower vaccination rates. If your claim were true the variants would come from Israel , Europe or the US.

And most variants don't get a own name because they don't differ enough from known viruses, so only the variants with certain mutations get the attention and a name at all.

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Re:Ignoring WHO call, major nations stick to vaccine booster... by pbak on Thursday August 05, 2021 @12:40PM (#28076132)
>If your claim were true the variants would come from Israel, >Europe or the US.

Except for the UK variant, b.1.1.7, also called Alpha, the deadliest since the beginning...

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Re:Ignoring WHO call, major nations stick to vaccine booster... by rsynnott on Thursday August 05, 2021 @01:11PM (#28076580)
First detected in November, becoming dominant by end December. The first vaccine wasn't approved in the UK until December.
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Re:Ignoring WHO call, major nations stick to vaccine booster... by pbak on Thursday August 05, 2021 @04:18PM (#28079129)
I should have been longer.

Exactly : Location of emergence of a variant has nothing to do with vaccination or not. All of the current variants raging around appeared before there were vaccines, as were all current and past variants of interest.

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Re:Ignoring WHO call, major nations stick to vaccine booster... by sudosysgen on Thursday August 05, 2021 @01:07PM (#28076525)
The UK had a full vaccination rate of approximately 0.0% when B.1.1.7 was detected, and a first dose rate of 1.5%.
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Re:Ignoring WHO call, major nations stick to vaccine booster... by rsynnott on Thursday August 05, 2021 @01:12PM (#28076592)
Even earlier than that; it was detected in November, though it didn't become dominant til late December.
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Re:Ignoring WHO call, major nations stick to vaccine booster... by croes on Thursday August 05, 2021 @12:50PM (#28076266)
Pre vaccination and not really deadlier just faster spreading.
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