deltacron

[bachophile]

well i guess this was inevitable

https://www.jpost.com/health-and-wellness/article-691926

The variant has a similar genetic background to the Delta variant, as well as some of the mutations from Omicron, explained Dr. Leondios Kostrikis, the head of the laboratory of biotechnology and molecular virology at the University of Cyprus, according to the Cyprus Mail.

[Jolly]

Ain't that just spiffy...

[LuFins Dad]

It doesn’t really look to be a major concern. Omicron is still far more contagious and will be the predominant variant. It will eventually be replaced by something even more transmissible but even less potent.

[Jolly]

We hope.

[Improviso]

@lufins-dad said in deltacron:

It will eventually be replaced by something even more transmissible but even less potent.

OR...

As deadly as Delta and as transmissible as Omicron.

You're welcome. Enjoy your Sunday.

[Axtremus]

@improviso said in deltacron:

As deadly as Delta and as transmissible as Omicron.

Unlikely, because if a variant kills its host too quickly, the host would have a much shorter time to walk around to infect others. So in some sense “deadliness” works against transmissibility.

[Copper]

As long as we are making up scary stories, let's make it a quantum virus that travels at 20% the speed of light - roughly 100 million miles per hour.

That will get around the world quickly.

[Axtremus]

@copper said in deltacron:

quantum virus

One with many superpositioned variants, and you cannot k kw which one until you’ve already been infected.