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Re:Omicron variant more resistant to vaccine but causes less... by Heliosmaster on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @03:08PM (#29556809)
> Was any variant successfully stopped with lockdowns?

Statstically speaking, almost surely yes: with millions of infections there are thousands of variants, every day. If somebody was prevented from infecting somebody with their variant (as patient 0) technically we stopped variants with lockdown. Maybe they more favorable for us, maybe they were more dangerous from us.

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Re:Omicron variant more resistant to vaccine but causes less... by not2b on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @06:55PM (#29559880)
The mu variant, which caused a lot of worry, went away. It apparently escaped vaccines better than delta but spread much more slowly, so delta out-competed it. Perhaps if there were no restrictions it would have done better. Hard to say though.
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