A researcher in Cyprus has discovered a strain of the coronavirus that combines the delta and omicron variant, Bloomberg News reported on Saturday.
Leondios Kostrikis, professor of biological sciences at the University of Cyprus, called the strain “deltacron,” because of its omicron-like genetic signatures within the delta genomes, Bloomberg said.
So far, Kostrikis and his team have found 25 cases of the virus, according to the report. It’s still too early to tell whether there are more cases of the strain or what impacts it could have.
“We will see in the future if this strain is more pathological or more contagious or if it will prevail” against the two dominant strains, delta and omicron, Kostrikis said in an interview with Sigma TV Friday. He believes omicron will also overtake deltacron, he added.
The researchers sent their findings this week to GISAID, an international database that tracks viruses, according to Bloomberg.
The deltacron variant comes as omicron continues its rapid spread across the globe, causing a surge in Covid-19 cases. The U.S. is reporting a seven-day average of more than 600,000 new cases daily, according to a CNBC analysis Friday of data from Johns Hopkins University. That’s a 72% increase from the previous week and a pandemic record.
Ok now they’re just playing a around.
It feels like they’re playing, “combine the viruses and see what we can get” game.
This covid crap has become nothing more than a “Virus of the week” episode. People are so stupid to think otherwise.
Aww, man! Just when I was getting used to Fluorona. Now I gotta get used to Deltacron, the new Covid Transformer of the week.
Hahaha thanks for the laugh!
“Discovered a strain” eh? Which likely means that dude divided by zero…. Irrational as the square root of two!
covaids is the endgame.
yup
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I’m surprised Lego hasn’t capitalized on these fabrications by now
Dr. Anthony Fauci: The Highest Paid Employee In The Entire U.S. Federal Government. But we all allow this.
Why hasn’t anyone with an electron microscope shown the evidence of this virus?