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originally posted by: Xtrozero
originally posted by: AaarghZombies
a reply to: IAMTAT
There is no link between covid vaccines and variants.
The most serious variants are from the UK, India and peru.
The UK variant emerged while the vax was still being trialed, and in a totally different part of the country. The India and Peruvian versions emerged in countries with critically low vaccine rates.
In contrast high vax countries like Israel have not seen their own variants.
In the US the areas with the highest vax rates also have the lowest variant rates.
I would say it is more amount of spread as in if a place has massive spread then you see variants, in a place with low spread you do not. No variants have come from America and we are the third largest population.
originally posted by: AaarghZombies
originally posted by: Xtrozero
originally posted by: AaarghZombies
a reply to: IAMTAT
There is no link between covid vaccines and variants.
The most serious variants are from the UK, India and peru.
The UK variant emerged while the vax was still being trialed, and in a totally different part of the country. The India and Peruvian versions emerged in countries with critically low vaccine rates.
In contrast high vax countries like Israel have not seen their own variants.
In the US the areas with the highest vax rates also have the lowest variant rates.
I would say it is more amount of spread as in if a place has massive spread then you see variants, in a place with low spread you do not. No variants have come from America and we are the third largest population.
There are plenty of US variants, they're just not named as they're not any more harmful than the base variant. They're there but nobody bothers with them.
You also get more spread, and thus more variants among unvaxxed people.
originally posted by: nonspecific
Not that I'm aware of but that's not to say there are none out there with revolutionary theories about the treatment of covid 19 and the effects of the many vaccines currently under emergency approval.
a reply to: chr0naut
originally posted by: loveguy
a reply to: IAMTAT
None of the variants came into existence until after the first VAX was administered.
originally posted by: dragonridr
originally posted by: chr0naut
a reply to: IAMTAT
The USA has the highest number of cumulative cases of COVID-19 (and the largest number of deaths attributed to it), of any country in the world. Clearly, it is the USA Virus.
And equally as clearly, there hasn't yet been sufficient time for vaccines to be behind the new variant strains.
The biggest driver of the number of new strains is the size of the infected population. The more people are infected, the more a mutation is likely to occur and be incubated by that population. This is why the alarmingly high number of infections of COVID-19 in the USA is so relevant.
Well where to start ok let's talk about cumulative cases you just can't look at the number of cases per country to get any useful data you must also look at population.
Ill use this as an example the us currently has 52,111 Spain right now is in the lead with 61,628 (so you are already wrong but let's continue) the UK is at 40,671. So it looks like the United States is far exceeding the UK. But now let's look at the population US has 332,639,102 people as of July 20th. The UK has 65,761,117 people as of July 20th.
so we take 52111 / 332639102 = 0.0001566593 * 100 = 0.01566593 This is our percentage of the population
Now we take 40671 / 65761117 = 0.0006184658 * 100= 0.06184658 This is the percentage for the UK.
So looking at this you can see you are more likely to get covid in the UK over the US remember these are daily numbers.
No population is not th main driver the main driver for any mutations to occur is the number of people that do not have an immunity to the virus. Last I checked the US was at 56 percent vaccinated now we add in the number of people that have already had covid its going to be above 65 percent. India on the other hand has 1,380,004,385 people 6.4 percent. So where do you think a new strain may originate? I chose India because that is where the new delta virus came from.
originally posted by: chr0naut
originally posted by: loveguy
a reply to: IAMTAT
None of the variants came into existence until after the first VAX was administered.
Between February and March 2020, in a tiny infected population of 473, in Iceland, about 40 SARS-nCoV-2 mutations were observed. Way before anyone was getting any vaccines:
Scientists have detected 40 coronavirus mutations – in Iceland alone
originally posted by: AaarghZombies
There are plenty of US variants, they're just not named as they're not any more harmful than the base variant. They're there but nobody bothers with them.
You also get more spread, and thus more variants among unvaxxed people.
originally posted by: chr0naut
Between February and March 2020, in a tiny infected population of 473, in Iceland, about 40 SARS-nCoV-2 mutations were observed. Way before anyone was getting any vaccines:
Scientists have detected 40 coronavirus mutations – in Iceland alone
originally posted by: nonspecific
I think the idea of this thread is are the vaccines creating the varients that are more virulent or deadly.
It's exciting to imagine the very thing that is supposed to save us will be our downfall isn't it.
originally posted by: nonspecific
I think the idea of this thread is are the vaccines creating the varients that are more virulent or deadly.
It's exciting to imagine the very thing that is supposed to save us will be our downfall isn't it.
a reply to: Xtrozero
Not true several variants were around before the vaccines were on the market. Even the new one the delta type was before india started their vaccinations it was still in early trials.