
Growing Number of Countries Identify Cases of âDeltacronâ Variant
From The Epoch Times By March 12, 2022
Natalieâs Commentary:
Taking the advice of John Moore, a virologist with Cornell University, said he wasnât sure the more recently reported hybrid was real or not; both the U.S. and French teams said their results are legitimate.
Regardless, for now, thereâs no reason to worry, Moore told The Epoch Times in an email.
âWhatâs the point? If itâs not real, it will soon fizzle out. If it is real, what good does worrying about it do? Letâs see what emerges over time, but I need a LOT more than whatâs here to be concerned about yet another âscariantâ story,â he said.
It is still important to use caution when going out. If people feel more comfortable wearing a mask then thatâs their choice. As a word of caution, continuing to stay a fair distance away from people is smart when being out. Always remember to continue to wash your hands frequently and donât touch your nose or eyes with unwashed hands. Taking the experimental genetic altering shots the government deceptively calls âvaccinesâ adds more complications for a person considering what is used and takes place in this scientific concept called reverse transcription when DNA is made from RNA. This is by no means normal. The normal transcription process involves a portion of the DNA serving as a template to make an mRNA molecule inside the nucleus.
There were many people including doctors who had COVID-19 and recovered but then decided to take the shot and felt miserable for three weeks with lingering fatigue and other side affects. One female doctor completely regretted getting the âvaccineâ and was already immune with natural antibodies from getting COVID-19.  It was like a double to triple dose of the nasty spike protein in her body. ~ Natalie
A growing number of cases of a hybrid COVID-19 variant dubbed âDeltacronâ are being identified, including several cases in the United States.
Researchers with Helix, a California-based genomic company, found two cases of COVID-19 infection caused by a hybrid of the Delta and Omicron variants, while researchers in France determined 18 people were infected by the hybrid.
Cases have also been detected in the Netherlands and Denmark, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
Delta was the dominant version of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, which causes COVID-19, in many countries in 2021 but was displaced in most of them by Omicron by the end of the year.
Experts so far havenât seen any difference in the characteristics of patients who are infected with the hybrid and havenât seen any signs that the Deltacron causes more severe cases of COVID-19, Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, WHOâs COVID-19 technical lead, told reporters in a recent briefing.
âUnfortunately, we do expect to see recombinants, because this is what viruses do, they change over time,â she said, adding later that, âthis pandemic is far from over.â
In the United States, Helix scientists and collaborators with the University of Washington Medical Center and Thermo Fisher Scientific sequenced 29,719 samples between November 2021 and February 2022 and identified 20 cases where a person was âco-infectedâ with the Delta and Omicron variants and two additional cases where the infection was pinpointed as being caused by the variant resulting from the recombination of Delta and Omicron.
âOur study demonstrates the existence of co-infections, the presence of a recombinant population in at least one of these co-infections, and the existence of two infections consisting almost entirely of multiple copies of a recombinant virus. However, the mechanism by which a recombinant virus comes to dominate an infection remains somewhat of a puzzle,â researchers wrote in the study, which was obtained by The Epoch Times prior to publication. Itâs scheduled to be published as a preprint on the server medRxiv in the coming days.
Possibilities include the two infections starting as co-infections before the hybrid virus outcompeted the Delta and Omicron variants, according to the researchers, who were backed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health.
In France, a team funded by the government identified three cases infected by the recombinant, following earlier identification of 17 others, the team reported in a preprint study.
Professor Phillipe Colson, one of the authors, told The Epoch Times in an email that there are too few cases right now âto figure out the epidemiological and clinical features of this hybrid.â
âWe wonder what a large part of an Omicron BA.1 spike (without the N-terminal domain) may change in a Delta genome regarding virus transmissibility and clinical presentation,â he added.
Scientists in Cyprus were said to initially report the hybrid in January, though some experts said the identified strain appeared to be a result of lab contamination.
John Moore, a virologist with Cornell University, said he wasnât sure the more recently reported hybrid was real or not; both the U.S. and French teams said their results are legitimate.
Regardless, for now, thereâs no reason to worry, Moore told The Epoch Times in an email.
âWhatâs the point? If itâs not real, it will soon fizzle out. If it is real, what good does worrying about it do? Letâs see what emerges over time, but I need a LOT more than whatâs here to be concerned about yet another âscariantâ story,â he said.