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French scientists detect ANOTHER variant linked to Cameroon
- Mutant strain has 46 mutations making it more vaccine resistant and infectious
- But there is little sign that it is outcompeting the dominant Omicron variant
- Some 12 cases have been spotted to date, linked to travel to Cameroon
Another Covid variant has been found in France, according to scientists.
The mutant strain has 46 mutations that are thought to make it both more vaccine-resistant and infectious than the original virus.
Some 12 cases have been spotted so far near Marseille, with the first linked to travel to the African country Cameroon.
But there is little sign that it is outcompeting the dominant Omicron variant, which now makes up more than 60 per cent of cases in France.
The strain was discovered by academics based at the IHU Mediterranee Infection on December 10, but has not spread rapidly since.
It is yet to be spotted in other countries or labelled a variant under investigation by the World Health Organization.
Professor Philippe Colson, who heads up the unit that discovered the strain, said: ‘We indeed have several cases of this new variant in the Marseille geographical area.
‘We named it “variant IHU”. Two new genomes have just been submitted.’
Continue readingNYC will consider race when distributing life-saving COVID treatments
New York City will take a patient’s race into account when distributing potentially life-saving COVID treatments, the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene revealed on their website.
The city will “consider race and ethnicity when assessing individual risk,” reads the agency’s official guidance from Dec. 20, which adds that “longstanding systemic health and social inequities” can contribute to an increased risk of dying from COVID-19.
The guidance applies to both the distribution of monoclonal antibodies and oral antivirals like Paxlovid and Molnupiravir.
Pandemic 1.0
Imagine being born in 1900. When you are 14 years old World War I begins and it ends when you 18 with 22 million deaths.
Shortly after, in 1918 a global pandemic, the Spanish Flu kills 50 million people.
You come out alive and free, and you are 20 years old.
Then at 29 years you survived the global economic crisis that started with the collapse of the New York Stock Exchange, causing inflation, unemployment and hunger.
At 33 the Nazis come to power in Germany. When you’re 39, WWII starts and ends when you’re 45. In the resulting Holocaust 6 million Jews die. There will be more than 60 million deaths in total.
When you’re 50 years old the Korean War starts. 5 million people died along with 40,000 Americans. 100.000 American soldiers wounded
When you’re 64 starts the Vietnam War and ends when you’re 75. A 10 year conflict that cost almost 60,000 American lives
A child born in 1985 thinks his grandparents have no idea how hard life is,
when in fact they survived various wars and disasters.
A boy born in 1995 and today 25 years old thinks it’s the end of the world when his Amazon package takes more than three days to arrive or when he doesn’t get more than 15 “likes” for his photo posted on Facebook or Instagram.
In 2022, many of us live in comfort, have access to different sources of entertainment at home and often have more than we need. But people complain about everything.
However, they have electricity, phone, food, hot water and a roof over their heads.
None of this existed before. But humanity survived much more serious circumstances and never lost the joy of living. Maybe it’s time to be less selfish, stop complaining and crying.
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The Kwanzaa Con: Created by a Rapist and Torturer
Kwanzaa, is an annual holiday affirming African family and social values that is celebrated primarily in the United States from Wednesday, December 26 to Saturday, January 1. Both the name and the celebration were devised in 1966 by Maulana Karenga, a professor of Africana studies at California State University in Long Beach and an important figure in Afrocentrism. Karenga borrowed the word kwanza, meaning “first,” from the Swahili phrase matunda ya kwanza, adding the seventh letter, an extra a, to make the word long enough to accommodate one letter for each of the seven children present at an early celebration. (The name Kwanzaa is not itself a Swahili word.)
Although Kwanzaa is primarily an African American holiday, it has also come to be celebrated outside the United States, particularly in Caribbean and other countries where there are large numbers of descendants of Africans. It was conceived as a nonpolitical and nonreligious holiday, and it is not considered to be a substitute for Christmas.
Each of the days of the celebration is dedicated to one of the seven principles of Kwanzaa:
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