That new Corona virus strain. The Brits announced that they just discovered it in Britain last week. Now we have a Colorado man, with NO recent travel, has it. I don’t believe the “new strain” travels that fast. I figure the Colorado man caught it from someone in Colorado. Makes me think that the “new strain” has been around, world wide, for quite some time, maybe since this whole Corona virus disaster started.
Does the “new strain” behave differently in patients than the old strain? Higher death rate? More infectious? Worse symptoms? Do we have any clinical data (observations of real patients) to support any of these ideas? I don’t believe computer models for this, I want real observations. Far as I am concerned the computer models are merely a Wild Ass Guess (WAG) dressed up as real.
How do we tell the difference between patients with “old strain” and patients with “new strain”?
I suppose we use some kind of laboratory test. This is not confidence building. A commonly used laboratory test has a distressingly high (20%) false positive rate. Is the test for “new strain” any more accurate?
So far my TV news has not given me backup information about the “new strain”. For all I know “new strain” is about the same as “old strain”.
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