Coronavirus (2021) thread

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Did anyone notice the case from Belgium by the way. Reported yesterday but happened in March to an unvaccinated 90 year old woman.

She sadly died from Covid but had caught BOTH the alpha and beta variant at the same time from two separate people.

That is something I had no idea was possible.

Perhaps this is a factor in why some people just have a worse reaction than others who catch it at the same time but only have to fight off one version. A double whammy attacking the immune system.
 
Healdplace said:
Did anyone notice the case from Belgium by the way. Reported yesterday but happened in March to an unvaccinated 90 year old woman.

She sadly died from Covid but had caught BOTH the alpha and beta variant at the same time from two separate people.

That is something I had no idea was possible,
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Wow. Not seen anything about that.
 
A reminder btw that Boris is giving a press conference at 5 pm on the decision regarding opening up next week. Will be live on TV, of course,
 
Healdplace said:
I am assuming it has to be very rare or we would all have heard about this happening given the global testing on variants.
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there were reports of this really early on in the states where people had the original Wuhan strain and the newer strain that came from that ( which was the one that spread around the world ).

Its probably more common that we think.
 
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there were reports of this really early on in the states where people had the original Wuhan strain at the newer strain that came from that ( which was the one that spread around the world ).

Its probably more common that we think.
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Yes I recall those stories now you mention it but had forgotten them as I presumed we knew next to nothing then and had no real testing anywhere to know if this was happening rarely or commonplace. But to have caught two co existing variants at the same time in vast numbers seems hard to understand as you would assume these variants compete not cooperate and one succeeds the other by basically eliminating it.

This current one had gone from nowhere in April when it emerged in Lancashire to now be 99% of all UK cases in weeks because it is so much easier to transmit. So there is a limited window when you could even catch two different ones if one becomes so dominant,

But this is all guesswork. Hopefully one of the scientists here will explain the reality of this.

I would have thought given all the profiling we do today if this was not rare there would be studies about how it happens by now.
 
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