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Message: <blockquote data-quote="imhotep" data-source="post: 26550082" data-attributes="member: 562115">If you remember in the old Covid Megathreads in early 2020 , I always insisted that there's "one and only one strain" of the Wuhan virus. This was the time the Chinese reported two strains and then some so called scientists in the UK reported several other strains....Some thought that I was wrong and sent in links to news reports. What does reporters know about viral strains? All of these were proved to be wrong.What happened later on.... The "strain" was dropped and in came the word "variant", then "variant of concern". The term "variant" is acceptable.On "Hybrids" please see what I wrote in last February 2021 and is the most likely explanation. (on a strange new variant in the US)<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><a href="https://elakiri.com/threads/%E0%B6%87%E0%B6%B8%E0%B6%BB%E0%B7%92%E0%B6%9A%E0%B7%8F%E0%B7%80%E0%B7%99%E0%B6%B1%E0%B7%8A-%E0%B6%85%E0%B6%AD%E0%B7%92-%E0%B6%B7%E0%B6%BA%E0%B7%8F%E0%B6%B1%E0%B6%9A-%E0%B6%AD%E0%B7%80%E0%B6%AD%E0%B7%8A-%E0%B7%80%E0%B7%9B%E0%B6%BB%E0%B7%83-%E0%B6%AF%E0%B7%99%E0%B6%9A%E0%B6%9A%E0%B7%8A-%E0%B7%83%E0%B7%9C%E0%B6%BA%E0%B7%8F-%E0%B6%9C%E0%B6%B1%E0%B7%93.1976977/post-26151116" target="_blank">Feb 20, 2021</a></li> </ul>It's a recombination event of two different lineages. First suspected early Feb 2021.PS: It can happen if a person is infected with two variants simultaneously, then the enzyme that replicates the genome is prone to slipping off the RNA strand it is copying and jump to the other, combining different elements of each genome to create a hybrid virus.</blockquote>

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