Mary Wilson
Well-known member
PUBLISHED WED, SEP 1 202110:56 AM EDT UPDATED AN HOUR AGO
Berkeley Lovelace Jr.
The World Health Organization is monitoring a new coronavirus variant called “mu,” which the agency says has mutations that have the potential to evade immunity provided by a previous Covid-19 infection or vaccination.
Mu — also known by scientists as B.1.621 — was added to the WHO’s list of variants “of interest”on Aug. 30, the international health organization said in its weekly Covid epidemiological report published late Tuesday.
... Mu “has a constellation of mutations that indicate potential properties of immune escape,” the WHO wrote in its report Tuesday.
The variant contains genetic mutations that indicate natural immunity, current vaccines or monoclonal antibody treatments may not work as well against it as they do against the original ancestral virus, the WHO said.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/01/who-says-it-is-monitoring-a-new-covid-variant-called-mu.html
Berkeley Lovelace Jr.
The World Health Organization is monitoring a new coronavirus variant called “mu,” which the agency says has mutations that have the potential to evade immunity provided by a previous Covid-19 infection or vaccination.
Mu — also known by scientists as B.1.621 — was added to the WHO’s list of variants “of interest”on Aug. 30, the international health organization said in its weekly Covid epidemiological report published late Tuesday.
... Mu “has a constellation of mutations that indicate potential properties of immune escape,” the WHO wrote in its report Tuesday.
The variant contains genetic mutations that indicate natural immunity, current vaccines or monoclonal antibody treatments may not work as well against it as they do against the original ancestral virus, the WHO said.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/01/who-says-it-is-monitoring-a-new-covid-variant-called-mu.html