Lambda COVID Variant, Showing Vaccine Resistance, Detected in Louisiana

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The first cases of the Lambda variant of COVID, which is showing resistance to vaccines in Tokyo, Japan, have been detected in Louisiana, while the country still continues to respond to rising cases and hospitalizations caused by the Delta Variant.

WBRZ reported on Thursday that the Lambda variant, which is believed to have originated in Peru and was first reported in the U.S. in Houston, Texas, has now been recorded in northern Louisiana, which shares a border with the Lone Star State.

Dr. Aldo Russo, the medical director at Ochsner Medical Center in Jefferson, Louisiana, told the local outlet that the Lambda variant had been recorded in the state, saying that "there have been a few cases detected in North Louisiana with the Lambda variant."

Russo confirmed that the variant has not yet been detected in Louisiana's capital, Baton Rouge, but said that health care professionals across the state are testing for it.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/lambda-covid-variant-showing-vaccine-resistance-detected-in-louisiana/ar-AAN0Kd2

[getagrip_already]

1. thats not the first US case....

At least one was diagnosed in TX last week. I want to say houston but it might have been dallas. Easy to google.

It's likely all along the south coast including florida at this point.

[jimfields33]

2. Vaccine resistant is scary.

[getagrip_already]

4. most of the data is coming from south america, which mostly uses the chinese vax...

That vax hasn't been very effective against any of the strains. I'm waiting for a study that looks at the mrna vacines like pfizer and moderna.

This is the first reference I've seen to tokyo, but it is spreading quickly so it will be everywhere before long.

[Native]

5. Exactly, and this article states the findings are based on testing against the Chinese vax.

Let's not panic yet. As of a couple of weeks ago, 10% of cases in Florida were of the lambda variant. If there was a reason to panic, I'm sure we'd have heard and seen more before today.

[Meowmee]

3. I guess most hospitals in these areas are testing for which variant

When my father was infected at a hospital here in January I don’t believe they even bothered to test for which variant it was. Nor for me either early on. I wonder if they are tested for delta/ lambda here now if positive at this hospital which is a teaching hospital. Probably not. He is tested each time he is admitted. He is currently back again and they were once again not sd and had numerous people in the er waiting area with masks below noses including a security guard at the reception and someone bringing people out in wheelchairs. I took pics this time.

[superpatriotman]

6. If we had ANY contact tracing

We could track the spread of the variants, but alas, we are being hoisted by our own HIPAA petard.

[Meowmee]

7. +

[getagrip_already]

8. We have it in MA......

The state contracted Partners in Health early on to establish a contact tracing program. They are very thorough, but the data is all collected by state and local agencies, then fed into a database (secure, but ctc has access).

So as long as the strain was sequenced by the testing lab, it will be in the database and can be tracked from contact to contact.

But in a state like FL, not so much......

[superpatriotman]

9. I want to know by who and where it is being spread

There are 'Typhoid Mary's' running around infecting the population - be they in gyms, grocers, subways, etc. - and 20 months in we should know MUCH more at the public health level.

[getagrip_already]

10. how do you think they know so much about the provincetown cluster?

They know who, where, and when. It's mapped out. But as to covid karens, I'm not sure how you could find one. They wouldn't participate or cooperate.

And covid is not a persistent disease where a carrier can have it for years. It comes and goes; either people get better or worse. They don't stay infectious over several months. Typhoid is different. So is TB.

But "you" or "I" don't need to know that level of information down to the PII level unless we are vetted and read in to access it.

[Mr.Bill]

11. I wonder how many people

brought it to Sturgis this weekend.