Comments by "John Woodrow" (@johnwoodrow8769) on "New strain of the COVID 19 Delta variant in NSW | 7NEWS" video.

  1. No, actually the likely 'problem' has been known for a while in other variants. It's been slowly moving around the world so was always going to turn up. If its a 'storm in a tea cup' or a potential total disaster for current generation vaccines is a hot medical debate.
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  2.  Bob Builder  You do your cause no good with fringe 'loopey' claims. This just hands 'wins' to the pro-vaccinate everything and everybody crowd by enabling them to dismiss EVERYTHING that doesn't align with their narrative as fringe 'anti-vax' crazy stuff. Genuinely inform yourself on the issues and argue your case from an educated position. There is plenty there without needed to resort to flat-earth claims. As at 27 September the E484K Delta mutation is known to have turned up in 33 countries, with the largest number being in Turkey. That it theoretically has the potential to make current vaccinations useless is something anti mandatory vaccination proponents should fully understand.
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  3. It actually is a potential issue. It is likely to be what is unofficially called Delta + (plus). It was always going to turn up as its now found in most countries. It's not a different strain. Its a mutation in the a section of the Delta spike protein at position (E484), hence the name Delta +. In that part of the covid spike protein it is termed an 'immune escape' mutation. From that name you can probably figure why health authorities and researchers around the world are closely watching it. The most concerning laboratory studies are making statements like 'current vaccines (based on the original Wuhan virus characteristics) are now just one covid mutation away from being near totally ineffective'.
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