Sutton Ross said: "Yeah, I read that one as well. Neither article mentions Italy in any way. I don't want fiction about this communicated to people, and that is false information. That's all I was trying to get across.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/health-news/coronavirus-has-mutated-at-least-once-into-two-strains-study-finds/ar-BB10NALk
"The genomes studied were only sourced from China, so it is unclear what strains are most common in other countries or if there have been further mutations."
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Then take it up with the expert that said it. I didn’t write it I only read it. Wtf would I gain from stating supposed fiction on a frickin Broadway forum that 20 people post on.
The information in that article is old news, there has been 2 strains of it for months since originating in China and it pretty much mutates wherever it goes.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1257128/coronavirus-new-strain-spain-italy-china-latest-covid-19-europe-wuhan
Spanish scientists from the University of Valencia and the Foundation for the Promotion of Health and Biomedical Research obtained the coronavirus genome and studied the mutations compared to the original Fernando González, one of the researchers from the University of Valencia who participated in the study, consulted by El Confidencial said: "The genome of the virus is in continuous mutation, and that is precisely what allows us to follow its trajectory in different countries and transmission routes. The isolated patients that we have sequenced in Valencia differ in six, one and nine mutations of the virus originally sequenced in Wuhan.
"But this is normal: almost all the viruses that have been sequenced so far have some differences with the first one.
"The one that has more differences is in Brazil with 16 mutations."
The coronavirus that infected more than 80,000 people in China, and killed more than 3,200, is not exactly the same one that has infected 27,980 Italians, nor the one that 11,300 Spaniards contracted.
As it spreads and goes from one country to another, it undergoes mutations.
This was verified this week by researchers from the University of Valencia and the Foundation for the Promotion of Health and Biomedical Research in the Valencian Community, who obtained the first genomes of the virus in Spain, from samples from three patients.
In this way, they were able to compare them with the genome identified by Chinese scientists on January 14, and by those isolated in many other countries in recent weeks.
The most important revelation of the mutations detected in Spain is that they are not associated with factors of greater or less lethality than the original genome of the virus.
The University of Valencia in a statement said: "The conclusion that has been reached after the analysis carried out is that, until now, no mutation has been found associated with greater virulence, lethality, or some interesting property from a clinical point of view."
Italian researchers came to the same conclusion.
Massimo Galli, responsible for infectious diseases at the Sacco hospital in Milan, who isolated the virus genome when it began to spread in Italy, has found that COVID-19 has mutated "two or three times" in Italian territory, but without changing its lethality.
He said: "There are always mutations in the RNA molecule in these viruses, but we do not believe that these can cause greater virulence."
These claims go in line with the genetic map of the virus that his team, along with Milan StateUniversity, isolated in early March.
Updated On: 4/3/20 at 11:39 PM
