Deadlier than Delta: Lambda strain detected in over 30 countries, says Health Ministry

[OhioChick]

Monday, 05 Jul 2021
1:43 PM MYT

PETALING JAYA: A new Covid-19 strain that is much more dangerous than the Delta variant has been detected in more than 30 countries in the past four weeks, says the Health Ministry.

“The Lambda strain was reported to have originated from Peru, the country with the highest mortality rate in the world,” it said in a tweet on Monday (July 5).

The Health Ministry also linked to report by Australian news portal news.com.au saying the Lambda strain had been detected in the United Kingdom.

The portal reported that six cases of the Lambda strain have been detected in the UK to date.

It noted that researchers are worried that this variant may be “more infectious than the Delta variant”.

https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2021/07/05/deadlier-than-delta-lambda-strain-detected-in-over-30-countries-says-health-ministry

[SheltieLover]

1. Yikes!

This mutation sounds horrible!

Ty for sharing.

Be safe, all. 😷

[Eugene]

2. But wait, there's more.

The Lambda COVID-19 variant: What do we know about it? (CTV News)

TORONTO -- A recently designated COVID-19 variant of interest by the World Health Organization is coming under scrutiny as more cases are being detected in multiple countries, and amid concerns that it carries mutations that could potentially make it more resistant to neutralizing antibodies.

The newly labelled Lambda variant, or C.37, was first detected as early as last August 2020 in Peru and was being monitored as an alert for some time prior to its new designation. As of mid-June, the variant had been detected in 29 countries or territories with a particularly high prevalence in South America.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/the-lambda-covid-19-variant-what-do-we-know-about-it-1.5497757

[Duppers]

3. Whoa!

I pray for your physician sons & I'm not even religious. (Not intending to be flippant here, only extremely concerned.) Can only imagine what they, & you, have been thru.

OC, thanks again; I'm sending this info out.

I hope folks stay masked up & use sanitizer. It's not "virtue signaling" or a psychological "comfort" item. This is far from over.

[OhioChick]

5. Thank you, you're a sweetheart n/t

[herding cats]

4. Hide under your bed time.

Find a tabloid without a sensational headline and I might pay attention. I'm actually involved with many epidemiologist due to an immunocompromised study I'm in. I'm currently being told this is a nothing burger without any facts behind it at this point. I trust my healthcare providers.

It feels like some here just want to unnecessarily scare people. There's a lot to be concerned about, but not until there's actual (real) peer reviewed studies.

I'm much higher risk than most, I'm speaking from what my healthcare professionals tell me, and mine are good due to my being (fortunate enough) to be with some of the best right now in the nation.

Scaring people for no good reason is just foolish. Let science catch-up then make claims. If mine aren't lighting their hair on fire and screaming mayday, we're all still ok, it think. I'm much more likely to die from Covid than the average person.

[Duppers]

6. OK.

[OhioChick]

7. "Scaring people for no good reason is just foolish?"

Do you see what's going on in other Countries? I'm happy to hear you feel that you're in the best of hands.

I trust my both my kids and what they tell me, as they're both physicians who are dealing with this virus on a daily basis. They're sounding the alarms now.

[herding cats]

8. You know what, you do you.

Spread the message you chose, but don't expect me to buy into it wholesale. I don't. I can't verify what you claim, and I will wait for scientifically verifiable evidence. What your offering is unverifiable, antidotal evidence on the internet to a real scientific problem.

This post is without any scientific foundation (love for you to provide some?) and 100% scaremongering as such.

Have a great night.

[OhioChick]

9. I trust my kids and try to alert others of what I'm told.

If you don't like the post, there's no need to respond.

Link to tweet

[herding cats]

10. He's been wrong more times than not this pandemic.

Do you know who you posted here?

[herding cats]

11. You're not big on following epidemiologist I'm guessing?

He's a bit of a joke in the community.

[herding cats]

13. Find me one peer reviewed paper he's been a part of. One.

Not a bogus and later disputed paper he circulated but one actual good thing he's done this pandemic. One scientific thing he's actually embarked on. He's all about hits and drama. He's not written nor researched one iota.

I'll be here.

[SheltieLover]

22. I very much appreciate your post! Forewarned is forearmed!

Tyvm, OC!

[HUAJIAO]

18. Anecdotal--- :))

And, for what it is worth, and while I am a strong believer (if that is the right word) in and supporter of science, there are different kinds of intelligence.

I have a friend who is a mechanical engineer, and while he understands how a car engine works, and all the forces in play at cornering and breaking and accelerating, etc, he has no damn idea how to drive a car. I fear for my life any time I am in a car with him driving.

[liberal_mama]

25. I have a friend I trust who is a healthcare professional in Missouri

He said the situation was very bad weeks ago and now it's worsening. He says many of the critically ill people have been vaccinated. I live in New York and rates are pretty low here, but I believe what he is telling me about Missouri. He's not a person that I'd consider a fear monger or prone to exaggeration so this worries me.

[BannonsLiver]

24. +1

Same posters day after day with constant drum beat of unavoidable, inevitable doom.

[liberal_mama]

26. I don't think there is an agenda. I desperately want this pandemic to end completely

This pandemic has been the worse time of my life. I still wear a KN95 mask in public as I'm an immune compromised diabetic with lupus, but I'm so happy to be picking out my own meat and produce at the grocery store and chatting outside with my neighbors again. And getting takeout food! I literally lived on canned soup and frozen meals for 15 months. It's so wonderful to get pizza and wings again. On my 21st wedding anniversary on April 7, 2 weeks after our 2nd vaccinations, I kissed my husband for the first time in over a year.

Now with all these variants, I'm hoping things don't go totally bad again.

[Rustyeye77]

12. This sh*t never ends.

This virus seems to have a mind of its own.

I’m going to buy a bubble wrap suit.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

14. WHO web page on Variants of Concern and Variants of Interest....

Tracking SARS-CoV-2 variants

Link: https://www.who.int/en/activities/tracking-SARS-CoV-2-variants/

Snip.....

All viruses, including SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, change over time. Most changes have little to no impact on the virus’ properties. However, some changes may affect the virus’s properties, such as how easily it spreads, the associated disease severity, or the performance of vaccines, therapeutic medicines, diagnostic tools, or other public health and social measures.

WHO, in collaboration with partners, expert networks, national authorities, institutions and researchers have been monitoring and assessing the evolution of SARS-CoV-2 since January 2020. During late 2020, the emergence of variants that posed an increased risk to global public health prompted the characterisation of specific Variants of Interest (VOIs) and Variants of Concern (VOCs), in order to prioritise global monitoring and research, and ultimately to inform the ongoing response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

I assume that WHO is the official international keeper of the books on the variants and their spread.


KY.........

[Lovie777]

15. Yikes . . ..

COVID refuses to die off and has adoptability to survive. I guess at this point in time the vaccines hopefully can weaken the strengths of each variation of these off springs. Fingers crossed.

Again at least for the USA, we have the means to dilute COVID but alas small percentage just refuses to get vaccinated.

[Klaralven]

16. Study says mRNA COVID vaccines are effective against Lambda variant

Researchers in the United States have conducted a study suggesting that the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccines that are currently being rolled out in many countries should be effective against the C.37 lineage (lambda variant) of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).

The C.37 lineage, which has been categorized as a “variant of interest” by the World Health Organization, is currently increasing in prevalence in South American and other countries.

The researchers found that while pseudotyped virus expressing the C.37 viral spike protein was less susceptible to vaccine-elicited neutralizing antibodies, the reduction in neutralization was only minor.

...

The team – from the New York University Grossman School of Medicine – says the study findings also suggest that Regeneron’s REGN-COV2 cocktail of monoclonal antibodies should be effective against C.37.

A pre-print version of the research paper is available on the bioRxiv* server, while the article undergoes peer review.

https://www.news-medical.net/news/20210705/Study-says-mRNA-COVID-vaccines-are-effective-against-Lambda-variant.aspx

[Hortensis]

20. Good to hear, so far. I'm worried about higher mortality in new variants.

Some are hitting younger people harder, but nothing to what could happen with the virus growing in hundreds of millions, or more, of hosts around the planet. Thank goodness a vaccine will be approved for all ages soon.

[twodogsbarking]

17. If you don't stop it early it will mutate and be worse.

Did I miss something?

[milestogo]

19. Fuck.

Its like we're stuck in a bad movie.

[LiberatedUSA]

21. When Dump was in office...

...the movie was a 70s porn with terrible acting, line reading and line flubbing.

[SheltieLover]

23. With a bunch of antivax, maskholes.

Nightmare!

Stay safe, Miles! 😷

[smirkymonkey]

27. Your signature line pretty much describes how I am feeling these days.

[EndlessWire]

28. I want to thank OP for posting

any news about Covid that may or may not be pertinent. I am an adult; I will listen and form my own opinion. I prefer to know everything I can about this virus. I take everything with a grain of salt. While other people may posture bad news as fear mongering, that just doesn't make it so. We are unafraid, but we are not stupid. Caution is the watch word of the day.

Delta was doubted, too. Now, rapidly, we are moving on to this new one. It's almost too much to take in at once. Vaccinated people are getting sick, you say? Well, we knew back when that it seemed that some of the people that had Covid and recovered were getting sick again. Remember? Seems like a million years ago. We missed something there. We needed a fast solution, made vaccines that work, and now we are in some kind of rebound situation. I think our approach is skewed. How simple it would have been: get your shot, and you're done. But, no. You need new shots, just like in the real world you get a flu shot every year, or new tetanus shots every ten years. How many variants can this new situation sustain before the new variant every year is not strong enough to kill you?

We need to vaccinate the ENTIRE world. Everyone. Everyone. If we don't cast aside our mutual hatreds and get it done, there will not be anyone left! How's that for fearmongering?