Reports that a hybrid Covid variant of Omicron and Delta dubbed ‘Deltacron’ is spreading across the world are not yet a cause for concern, scientists have said. MailOnline has more.
Fears about ‘Deltacron’ were raised again this week after the World Health Organisation announced the super-mutant had been spotted in France, Holland and Denmark.
But U.K. Health Security Agency bosses who have been tracking the strain for weeks have spotted just 32 domestic cases.
While the hybrid variant has shown it can spread between people, experts and health authorities have insisted it is not growing at concerning rate and is unlikely to replace Omicron.
Professor Ian Jones, a virologist at the University of Reading, said it would be hard to see how the hybrid could outcompete the now dominant BA.2 subvariant of Omicron.
“Omicron replaced Delta so a hybrid is a step back and unlikely to be ‘better’ in any appreciable way,” he told the the Times.
He added that unless monitoring shows that it could be a threat “it doesn’t warrant particular attention”.
Professor Lawrence Young, a microbiologist from the University of Warwick, told MailOnline it was “unlikely” to result in a rise in severe disease.
“Given waning immunity in the population and the removal of all restrictions, it is likely that Deltacron will spread but is unlikely to result in severe disease,” he said.
“The BA.2 cousin of Omicron is currently spreading in the England and is more transmissible than the original Omicron variant.”
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World Hysteria Organisation
Sack the lot of em
World Hell Organisation too.
Better to disband the whole organisation
Solve.
Finally.
…and lock up its principal ;”philanthropist ” ( sic) donor…in secure accommodation!
You’d have to ask Bill Gates first, since he owns it.
Thankfully they’ve not told us yet that it is harmless — that’s the point to start worrying.
(Everything the WHO says about Covid appears to be exactly the opposite of the actual situation)
The WHO is no more than the “Voice of Gates”( a non medical man with an obsessive interest in mass vaccination).
Gates is the one you want.
Him too.
More like the World Homicide Organisation.
Angers Tegnell from Sweden is joining the WHO so we should get some pushback from them in the future
everyone I know has a cough these days. probably a bit of winter and a bit of reduced immune systems from lockdown
nobody is testing, no-one is worried about killing granny. everyone I know at least has gone back to pre-pandemic mode.
Tim Spector is annoyed because he hasn’t got his funding renewed for Zoe. Panic monger in chief that he is has tweeted about covid killing as many as Spanish flu. though spanish flu killed the young and the population was smaller. covid ‘is a contributory factor in deaths of old age’ but isn’t really killing anyone that wouldnt be dead soon anyway. so not really comparable. But its the misusing of data and non-contextualising of it that I find so appalling
The Spanish Flu reportedly killed 50 million people 2.5% of a global population of almost 2 billion people. Today with a global population of around 8 billion people that would be close to 200 million deaths, average age 28.
Dr. John Campbell has been red-pilled
In his latest video, Dr. Campbell looks through the Pfizer documents and concludes:
Yup John. You’re right. It was obvious to some of us 10 months ago.
https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/dr-john-campbell-has-been-red-pilled
“10”?!
May 2020, at a push.
March 2020, for me.
When they started sending daily death tolls to everyone’s smartphones as if they were something unusual, when they so obviously weren’t.
Not bragging, but it was just so simple. A bit of basic scepticism and arithmetic. Being right was never so easy yet so uncommon.
March 2020 for me too, before the first lockdown. On the weekend it was announced that people over the age of 70 should be incarcerated for 12 weeks, I thought “what the fuck?” I’ve been thinking “what the fuck?” ever since.
March 2020 was when bemusement turned to “This is insane.”
Couldn’t tease colleagues out of it; so shifted my tack to “Where’s the exit strategy?”
Here I am in Oz, two years later – and it’s crazier than ever.
Yes. There are few, if any, signs of sanity returning.
March 2020 for me too – the weekend when the announcement of lockdown prevented me from completing the sale of my house and acquiring the place I’d been working desperately hard to secure for the previous three months. Made life really quite difficult and delayed our move by a year, during which we lost a LOT of money. I dream of bumping into Johnson in a dark alley…
Get a blonde wig and some high heels and it could yet happen.
For me it was when they banned the covid antibody tests in August 2020. The Pharmaceutical society said it was because ‘if we knew we’d had it we’d stop wearing our masks’. Around the same time they stopped mentioning ‘naturally-acquired immunity’ and ‘T’-cell immunity.
My local pharmacy was also told if they didn’t stop doing the tests they’d be shut down. That was enough evidence for me that this was a total farce, but unfortunately, most people believed it. I lost my best friend of 60 years because I refused the vaccine. In all those decades of close friendship I’d never heard such abuse from her.
I’d have put money on it that the English wouldn’t be so gullible. So, quite a shock to find out that we were.
I doubt that any one country cornered the market in gullibility. Quite how widespread it’s been has proved a shock.
It’s worse than ‘uncommon’ around here.
Do you think the little black dog with ‘Winston’ on his collar is just a coincidence? Who is the plaster head on his bookcase? And the little picture behind it?
Yes…. John was incapable of seeing the truth staring him in the face after a lifetime of innocent service and trust in ‘authority’, the NHS and the impeccable honesty of our Institutions…..so there we are.
The penny has finally dropped through the machine.
So true! He pushed the vaccine and was blind to freely available data. He’s not a doctor, but a senior nursing educator with a PhD. He’s most definitely not a virologist or an epidemiologist. What he does have is a mass following of jabbed normies. He must be held to account like the rest that promulgated unsubstantiated vaccine rhetoric. The truth will out!
My thoughts exactly. That’s why I stopped watching his vids many months ago, when it became apparent he was so pro-vaccine to the point of being blinkered and unable to entertain any negatives associated. I think he’s interviewed a few people who’ve been vaccine injured as a result of the jab. I did used to like his videos in the beginning, before the jab came along basically, as he seemed good covering info from all over the world and breaking down studies for lay people. I should watch this latest some time then..
He is a doctor but he is not a physician. Doctor for a physician is an honorary title. Surgeons are Mr/Miss/Ms/Mrs not because they are “better” than physicians but because, historically, they were considered inferior to physicians (your local barber was your local surgeon)
I rather fancy he’s tailored how far he was prepared to challenge the prevailing orthodoxy so as to retain his YT channel.
It was something of a surprise to me that he was so pro-vax until last week. I never sensed that the level of adverse effects changed his mind until the Pfizer docs hit the streets.
It’s been a joy to watch his viewpoint change, culminating in the analysis of the Pfizer papers. He has over 2 million subscribers – the truth will out.
FWIW I started to feel concerns by April 2020 when it became clear that the “three weeks to you know what” was obviously not the intent. There’s also been something totally off about this being global from the outset. Not tinfoil hat stuff – just choosing to retain a capacity to wonder combined with some healthy scepticism.
I’ll have to go pay a visit to his channel again then. I’d also be interested to read the comments because he was always followed by an army of pro-narrative Covid zealots, as I remember. I wonder if his fan club are also having an awakening and changing their tune..It would also give a good indication as to how the public opinion is atm on this matter. Kudos to him though if he is literally following the science and forming his opinion based on the hard data as opposed to just toeing the line and confirming his own bias. I have a lot of respect for those who do a U-turn in their opinions and admit to being wrong previously.
Just finished the excellent Kennedy Jr exposé of Fauci and Gates. His last chapter details all the war-gaming of pandemic or bio-terrorism scenarios that have gone on during the last 20 years. It looks like an alliance of Pharma, military and WEF types have been imagining how they could exert global control over the masses, using ‘public health’ and ‘safety’ as the excuse.
Covid was probably just a dress-rehearsal.
At the very latest, the penny should have dropped when the garden centres were allowed to re open in England (May 2020). Follow the money trail via the largest chain of garden centres, and a major supermarket, to some very rich former tory cronies – the sort the PM would like to be friends with if only he had the clout.
Dr John is a good, honourable man but he surely can’t be one of the brightest. The truth has been obvious for a long time.
I expect the Sage committee is even nopw admonishing the “scientists” for failing to find a reason to shut down the world again.
Excuse my ignorance but how can a virus create a hybrid?
When you have enough short genetic sequences, it’s amazing what a computer can generate.
Recombination in a host infected with two variants at the same time.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK8439/#:~:text=Go%20to%3A-,Recombination,some%20genes%20from%20both%20parents
But is that a hybrid in the normal meaning of the word? To me a mule is a hybrid, a tigon or liger are hybrids, where two species create offspring.
“Copulating viruses” – whatever next! Where is Whitty to frighten us when you need him?
Hush. Speak of the Devil and he’ll surely appear.
Polishing his gong?
It isn’t a hybrid in that sense.
A better term would be ‘recombinant virus’.
The name isn’t that important, though. The term hybrid is ‘okay’ because it describes that the new variant has bits of two ‘parent’ variants.
Sorry but I disagree, the fact that the RNA of version X contains sequences from Version A and Version D is a purely random recombination.
Not really. The question here would be How do we know that this is a recombinant virus? Has anyone observed that happening? Or did someone just stick a politically convenient label onto something he found by chance?
And then, this is not two viruses mating with each other in order to create a hybrid virus but gene sequences getting accidentally mixed up during virus fabrication in an infected cell. In theory, at least.
‘Modelled’ by Ferguson perhaps?
I literally haven’t got the energy or inclination to deal with this anymore, nor the crayons or time to keep explaining it to people who are incapable of thinking for themselves. I’m going off-road. Anyone want to join me?
Yawn.
I heard that the nastiest strain was called the Decepticon variant, which made the afflicated turn into VW Beetles, Mac trucks, etc etc.
Presumably this is a sign that the war in the Ukraine is about to end, so that the World must have something else to be scared about again to allow the WEF to continue their ‘work’ for Agenda 30.
We really have to stop this obsession with variants.
We’re going to have Covid variants forever. Some will a bit ‘worse’, some a bit ‘better’, but they’ll keep on coming. It is insane to keep worrying about them.
The problem is that Boris the Sponge has promised to give them their fake emergency back if they can come up with another new and exciting variant. Hence, they’ll obviously keep trying.
Johnson remains a great danger to us all.
Yes.
Other great dangers are the leaders of the opposition parties.
During most of the so-called pandemic, we’ve had moderated versions of the policies the so-called opposition called for voted into place by an informal Lab-Con coalition. This culminated in the vaccine assport which would never have become reality in England had the party which is nominally governing actually been in charge. We’d arguably be worse off had Keir Starmer and/or the progressive zero COVID Labour zealots been able to govern more directly than they could, but Johnson is being janus-faced here, ie, trying keep his option to chose either door open.
A firm committment to stop imitating Chinese policies because the Chinese must simply know everything better than we do would make me much more comfortable.
I agree but the obsessions with bits of colds and ‘flu’s is nothing to do with health. These “infections” are being used as covers for truly nefarious actions such as poisoning people with “vaccines” that nobody needs, so-called passports – for ‘flu? For crying out loud.
A new “variant” means something dangerous to the people of this planet is probably incoming.
WE don’t have the ‘ obsession’ those who invented and made use of the virus to imprison us in our own homes and force us to wear useless masks and tell us to repeatedly jab ourselves and our children with an mRNA experimental product of unknown composition and consequences ……those are the ones with the “obsession”….the unprecedented power the virus gave them over our lives.
I appreciate that few people here will be worrying about new variants. My statement was directed towards those that incite fear by crying ‘variant’ all the time.
I wonder if some people can remember how they coped in say 2019 when they say had the flu, now it seems as soon as you have the sniffles you must be quarantined for weeks rather than a lemsip.
Exactly. 2019 and previous you’d reach for the Lemsip and have a few duvet days. Commencing 2020 Clown World we must all line up for the upcoming experimental clot shot and embark on being a test subject for the largest ever vaccine trial…despite surviving the whole of 2020 without it. Seems totally proportionate and reasonable to me..I’ve had worse hangovers, personally.
I find it fascinating how people were conditioned to accept the shots, if you scroll back to say 2019 and said to people that you will be taking injections you would have been laughed at, now big compliance and no questions asked, I find that compelling how many millions of people changed their minds on a dime and lined up. Lockdown had a big part in this, locking people in their homes, blasting them with propaganda and then letting them out changed if that makes sense.
Yes I agree. I can understand the people who would routinely get a flu jab ( presumably because they’re at higher risk of getting severely ill from flu, or at least *told* that they are ) being the easiest to brainwash, especially given the amount of propaganda and misinformation they were relentlessly subjected to. But for everybody else, people who have never felt it necessary to get a flu jab and are not immunocompromised, it’s just really, really shameful how they’ve been sucked in. Perhaps I should be more forgiving, but if 2 years on people are still wearing masks, despite evidently never raising the obvious question of “If masks work then why have we never ever had to wear them during flu seasons in the past?”, then they are deserving of all the scorn and derision I regularly send their way! I’d like to think that the last 2 years have opened some of the former naive bedwetters’ minds however.
No need to worry just yet. We have Russia-Ukraine. Let’s see how that goes before we make a definitive decision on how super-duper the gnu mutant strain is, exactly, and whether we should tell the plebs they need to worry.
Sound about right?
What evidence does the Prof have that immunity is declining?
None whatever – but that doesn’t stop the Covid Maniacs!
Isn’t it just in the vaccinated it’s declining? I had a blood test at a pharmacy eight months after I got covid and I still had a full antibody count. I remain un-jabbed, and according to many medical people my immunity will last for years, maybe even life.
What a load of duckin shite.
One thing we know for sure is that mask paranoia, lockdowns, fake PCR test horror propaganda and life threatening vaccines greedy duplicitous pharma companies megalomaniac billionaires seeking ‘world domination’ are more dangerous to humanity than any ‘Covid’ variant and that use of Ivermectin could in any case save the lives of any of the tiny minority in danger.
We must not go back before we even realise what ‘They’ have done to us and why !
Bugga. Just when I thought it was safe to come out from under the bed.
Bed bugga.
So if we’re told that Omicron managed to evade those with natural immunity from prior infection and those with “vaccine” generated immunity, then what’s the odds that all subsequent mutations are going to be equally able to evade whatever immunity we might have? If resp viruses are meant to always mutate to be more transmissive but less pathogenic, then Covid is behaving in an entirely predictable manner. Therefore isn’t this just further proof that any subsequent “vaccines”, whether based on the extinct Wuhan strain or a new-fangled formula they manufacture, are totally and utterly pointless as they’ll be ineffective anyway? Plus, I would argue that this is also confirmation that Covid has evolved to be nothing more than yet another common cold. And since when did we vaccinate against a cold, which you can catch a few times over the course of year easily. So it’s hardly full page spread material! My kid is on her 2nd in 3 weeks and nobody’s wetting the bed over here! lol
Excellent.
Oh dear, why am I applauding common sense with “Excellent?”
Sorry Mogwai. No offence intended.
Thank you LOL! I just think that now it’s become more obvious than ever that they are ploughing the depths, due to more and more people finally awakening and saying “enough already, we just want to move on”, and basically going around identifying what is essentially a cold virus and sticking a name on it! Well they never gave names to colds in the past did they, and give them max column inches and air time? It’s just bonkers, but the fact of the matter is that they are losing the stranglehold more and more over the general public. I personally know many who went ahead and got the first 2 jabs but have said now “enough is enough”. They did their part and they’re feeling a wee bit duped and pissed off, justifiably. It makes me laugh when I think of the mask mandates still in place here for public transport and I sat all the way to Amsterdam, the only unmasked, thinking to myself, “I wonder how many of these muppets are jabbed? I bet it’s the majority.” But being brainless muppets it doesn’t occur to them to even question the rule and think “If I’m fully vaccinated and they’re fully vaccinated, why are we all sat here with a sanitary towel strapped to our faces?” That’s the new fashion over here don’t you know…LOL But I doubt we’ll hear the last of this if they just want to go round finding new colds and naming them, sticking them in the spotlight. They need to engineer the same amount of fear and hysteria as previous, because that’s where the control and compliance stems from, but as long as these viruses keep evading the jabs, more people should gradually twig that it’s all a pointless exercise. Here’s hoping anyhoo!
“Covid variant of Omicron and Delta”:
omicron+delta=omicrondelta
omicrondelta=media control
They are taking the p iss.
‘Deltacron’? Nobody’s going to be scared of something with a name as bland as that.
Try ‘Agonising Viral Megadeath’ instead. That makes a much better headline.
Well, to be fair I just tested positive for something on an antibody test and it has been most unpleasant and could never be described as mild. Hit me like a bus and felt like my brain was about to explode…but I guess these last two years have caused some brain trauma. Seriously, if I just had this latest version, it’s a toughie…
Get well soon.
Or it was flu. Remember flu?
”…are not yet a cause for concern…”
The word ”yet” should ring alarm bells.
It’s not turned blue and orange\yellow has it. How amazing.
The problem with these variants is, as ever, that no one actually needs to hear about them – but they do, inevitably. Have heard something, millions of undersized brains around the world begin to construe…