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Fauci Warns New Virus Mutations Are a ‘Wake-Up Call’
On Friday, Dr. Anthony S. Fauci warned that new virus variants, despite the global vaccine distribution, should offer a wake-up call to the continuing dangers of the pandemic.
We’re all aware of the variance that we knew dominated the U.K. B.1.1.7 , the B.1.351 in South Africa and other variants, such as the P.1. in Brazil. When these variants were first recognized, it became clear that we had to look at, in vitro, in the test tube, whether the antibodies that were induced by the vaccines that we had available would actually neutralize these new mutants. Antigenic variation, i.e. mutations that lead to different lineage do have clinical consequences because as you can see, even though the long-range effect in the sense of severe disease is still handled reasonably well by the vaccines, this is a wake-up call to all of us that we will be dealing as the virus uses its devices to evade pressure, particularly immunolog
Titanic about icebergs in its path.
Seems like this ship was doomed. Captain Edward Smith actually changed course a little bit in response to iceberg warnings he received over the wireless, but icebergs were in the
Titanic s future anyway. Two boats, the
Amerika and the
Mesaba, both sent messages to the
Titanic to warn the captain that despite changing course, huge icebergs were still in the ship s path. Neither message made it from the wireless operator to the bridge. Around 11 p.m., the
Californian sent word that they were stopped for the night because of the ice. Like the others, this message never left the wireless room.