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New COVID variant ‘IHU’ with 46 mutations detected in France

Posted by Dave on Wed Jan 5 06:37:50 2022


IHU


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Re: New COVID variant ‘IHU’ with 46 mutations detected in France

Posted by Olog-hai on Wed Jan 5 08:03:36 2022, in response to New COVID variant ‘IHU’ with 46 mutations detected in France, posted by Dave on Wed Jan 5 06:37:50 2022.

And what will be the variant after that called, “IHU2”?

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Re: New COVID variant ‘IHU’ with 46 mutations detected in France

Posted by Stephen Bauman on Wed Jan 5 08:10:55 2022, in response to New COVID variant ‘IHU’ with 46 mutations detected in France, posted by Dave on Wed Jan 5 06:37:50 2022.

It's too early to know whether this will be a problem or a footnote. It does point out the ability of the virus to mutate more quickly than our ability to track it - let alone contain it through only vaccines and therapeutics.

The hope is the Omicron variant will crowd out more virulent variants by providing immunity against them. In vitro studies have shown the Omicron variant will provide immunity against the Delta and Beta variants but not vice versa. Nobody knows how long such immunity will last nor how effective it will be against other variants. That's the gamble most countries are taking in preference to more proactive strategies.

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Re: New COVID variant ‘IHU’ with 46 mutations detected in France

Posted by mtk52983 on Wed Jan 5 08:19:24 2022, in response to Re: New COVID variant ‘IHU’ with 46 mutations detected in France, posted by Stephen Bauman on Wed Jan 5 08:10:55 2022.

It looks like this variant predated Omicron from the article

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Re: New COVID variant ‘IHU’ with 46 mutations detected in France

Posted by ntrainride on Wed Jan 5 09:12:43 2022, in response to Re: New COVID variant ‘IHU’ with 46 mutations detected in France, posted by Stephen Bauman on Wed Jan 5 08:10:55 2022.

the universe wants to eat us. i'm cool with that.

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Re: New COVID variant ‘IHU’ with 46 mutations detected in France

Posted by Stephen Bauman on Wed Jan 5 09:28:13 2022, in response to Re: New COVID variant ‘IHU’ with 46 mutations detected in France, posted by mtk52983 on Wed Jan 5 08:19:24 2022.

It looks like this variant predated Omicron from the article

Here's a link to the source document.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.24.21268174v1.full.pdf

IHU was detected from mid November, according to the article. This places it in the same time frame as Omicron.

Whether or not Omicron will prevent IHU's spread depends on which is more prevalent in a particular locale. At present, Omicron far exceeds IHU's 12 recorded cases near Marseilles. There's still the question as to whether an Omicron infection will offer immunity against IHU.

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Re: New COVID variant ‘IHU’ with 46 mutations detected in France

Posted by BILLBKLYN on Wed Jan 5 09:46:04 2022, in response to New COVID variant ‘IHU’ with 46 mutations detected in France, posted by Dave on Wed Jan 5 06:37:50 2022.

Eh....

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Re: New COVID variant ‘IHU’ with 46 mutations detected in France

Posted by FYBklyn1959 on Wed Jan 5 09:49:05 2022, in response to Re: New COVID variant ‘IHU’ with 46 mutations detected in France, posted by Olog-hai on Wed Jan 5 08:03:36 2022.

+2

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Re: New COVID variant ‘IHU’ with 46 mutations detected in France

Posted by Spider-Pig on Wed Jan 5 10:45:13 2022, in response to New COVID variant ‘IHU’ with 46 mutations detected in France, posted by Dave on Wed Jan 5 06:37:50 2022.

Why doesn’t this one get a Greek letter?

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Re: New COVID variant ‘IHU’ with 46 mutations detected in France

Posted by Fred G on Wed Jan 5 10:57:59 2022, in response to Re: New COVID variant ‘IHU’ with 46 mutations detected in France, posted by Spider-Pig on Wed Jan 5 10:45:13 2022.

They've switched to acronyms, or texting speech. IHU = I Hate U

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Re: New COVID variant ‘IHU’ with 46 mutations detected in France

Posted by Dave on Wed Jan 5 11:33:32 2022, in response to Re: New COVID variant ‘IHU’ with 46 mutations detected in France, posted by Fred G on Wed Jan 5 10:57:59 2022.

LMAO!

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Re: New COVID variant ‘IHU’ with 46 mutations detected in France

Posted by Olog-hai on Wed Jan 5 12:34:16 2022, in response to Re: New COVID variant ‘IHU’ with 46 mutations detected in France, posted by ntrainride on Wed Jan 5 09:12:43 2022.

There's a joke in there somewhere . . . "Hey universe, eat me!"

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Re: New COVID variant ‘IHU’ with 46 mutations detected in France

Posted by FYBklyn1959 on Wed Jan 5 17:02:08 2022, in response to Re: New COVID variant ‘IHU’ with 46 mutations detected in France, posted by Fred G on Wed Jan 5 10:57:59 2022.

Maybe they consulted this guy 😂





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Re: New COVID variant ‘IHU’ with 46 mutations detected in France

Posted by Fred G on Wed Jan 5 17:45:29 2022, in response to Re: New COVID variant ‘IHU’ with 46 mutations detected in France, posted by FYBklyn1959 on Wed Jan 5 17:02:08 2022.

😅😅😅

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Re: New COVID variant ‘IHU’ with 46 mutations detected in France

Posted by Olog-hai on Wed Mar 11 21:39:49 2026, in response to Re: New COVID variant ‘IHU’ with 46 mutations detected in France, posted by Stephen Bauman on Wed Jan 5 08:10:55 2022.

It's too early to know whether this will be a problem or a footnote

It's a footnote. And I don't HU.

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