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Re:Tracking Covid-19 variant B.1.1.529 by koheripbal on Friday November 26, 2021 @10:23AM (#29351003)
It has rapidly displaced all other variants in South Africa. It's only rare from a global perspective. It will be commonplace soon.
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Re:Tracking Covid-19 variant B.1.1.529 by timr on Friday November 26, 2021 @10:28AM (#29351058)
Those "rapdily displaced" numbers are based on a small number of samples and are not to be trusted. The fact that they're being repeated now is essentially fear-mongering by the news media.
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Re:Tracking Covid-19 variant B.1.1.529 by jwblackwell on Friday November 26, 2021 @11:38AM (#29351696)
The number of cases in South Africa before this was very low as well, there aren’t many other cases of delta to compete with
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