We have existing variants-of-concern (three, specifically) and a few worth watching and many (reported with worry but probably no big deal). One or more may have well risen during chronic infections in *individual* immunocompromised patients treated with plasma.
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Existing variants are concerning. We do need ongoing surveillance to spot and react to new ones (and thankfully UK had extensive genomic surveillance for example). But can we *please* stop referring to them as if they are some mysterious hex certain to smite the unworthy?
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(This thread is a reaction to the number of responses I've received to CDC's announcements that fully-vaccinated people can hang out indoors unmasked with a version of "but variants". What is the biological mechanism through which vaccinated interaction engenders "variants"?)
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If it can’t replicate it won’t mutate. Vaccination is the solution to stopping variants from developing.
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When I see doctors downplaying vaccines, it makes me really disheartened. It's scientifically inaccurate. The fact that it is borne out of caution does not dampen the inaccuracy of it all.
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So does that mean that variants can actually be prevented by mass vaccination? I’ve heard the same thing about the inevitability of variants and this becoming like the yearly flu for which there is never a single vaccine. Or are vaccinnation and variation not connected?
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Variants can't be prevented entirely but the fewer people catch the virus the less likely they are, so vaccination is pretty much an unalloyed good and people should stop inventing hypothetical scenarios in which somehow vaccination makes things worse
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Is this the type of thing you object to? Seemed fact-based and reasonablehttps://twitter.com/MarkLevineNYC/status/1369682748428984326?s=19 …
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No not at all. That is totally reasonable. That's exactly the kind of thing that is concerning, that we should be aware of, and that should cause us not to relax certain precautions too early.
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