COVID testing site at the Getty Center has detected LA's first case of flurona

[RandySF]

Link to tweet

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CBS Los Angeles
@CBSLA
#BREAKING: A COVID testing site at the Getty Center has detected LA's first case of flurona, a combination of influenza and coronavirus.

[C_U_L8R]

1. We've reached peak turducken

Emphasis on turd.

[Grasswire2]

9. Hahahaha!

I laughed out loud at that.

Well said!!

[StarryNite]

2. swell

[Blues Heron]

3. What's next fluronabola?

[Vinca]

4. So I guess the only thing left is for that space junk to fall on us all.

[uponit7771]

7. lol, A comet will come after the space junk so that's something to look forward to / sarc

[Emile]

5. Just keeps mutating.

[obamanut2012]

6. There is no such mutation

The header and tweet are clickbait.

[Amishman]

10. This, anyone who uses that misleading term should be ashamed

There's enough real shit to be afraid of without misleading people into thinking they've somehow combined

This is just some unlucky person who caught both

[Torchlight]

15. It's not a mutation, it's two separate viruses existing simultaneously in the same host.

No different than having a cold and a stomach virus at the same time.

[Jerry2144]

8. I hate that word

It makes pale think we have a new hybrid variant. What is really going on is a concurrent infection by the COVID virus and by an influenza virus. These two have not cross-bred. Yet.

But viruses are unusual chunks of genetic code in a fat ball (like 45, but tinier). Is it possible for genetic material to swap between completely unrelated families of viruses if they infect the same host cell?

[Tomconroy]

11. Flurona:

https://slate.com/technology/2022/01/flurona-coronavirus-flu-worry.html

[crickets]

12. +1

[leftstreet]

13. All I can think about is The Knack n/t

[Just_Vote_Dem]

14. That's what I was thinking

LOL