Heavily mutated coronavirus variant puts scientists on alert

Re:Heavily mutated coronavirus variant puts scientists on alert by the8472 on Thursday November 25, 2021 @05:29PM (#29345580)

> What would you do now that you’re not doing already?

Well, if you're a policymaker then suspending travel to prevent it from spreading internationally. If it's the worst case (more infectious than delta + immune evading) then buying a little time to adapt vaccines or produce the recently announced antivirals could save a lot of lives.

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Re:Heavily mutated coronavirus variant puts scientists on alert by tigershark on Thursday November 25, 2021 @05:48PM (#29345736)

U.K. put South Africa and other African countries in the red list for example.

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Re:Heavily mutated coronavirus variant puts scientists on alert by skybrian on Thursday November 25, 2021 @05:34PM (#29345606)

We aren’t policy makers, though.

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Re:Heavily mutated coronavirus variant puts scientists on alert by ummonk on Thursday November 25, 2021 @07:09PM (#29346282)

HN regularly discusses topics which primarily have policy implications, and there likely are policy makers who lurk here.

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