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soothsayer

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3. I believe there are thousands of variants already

Reply to Throck (Original post)

Mon Jan 11, 2021, 08:11 PM

Jan 2021

I vaguely recall fauci or Gupta saying 1400 in the summer maybe. But most mutations don’t do much.

They’re just talking about a few variants thought to spread more easily, and yeah, UK, SA, and Italy have their own strains.

We’ve got a few cases of these in the US.

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