How many more 'crons' can we take?
no Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images Congrats to us all: Despite ominous reports you may have seen on social media over the weekend, assorted COVID-19 experts believe “Deltacron” — a supposed coronavirus super-strain — does not exist. This after troubling news out of Cyprus, where a researcher warned of a possible new COVID variant featuring “Omicron-like genetic signatures within the Delta genomes.
On Saturday, Bloomberg reported that Leondios Kostrikis, a professor of biological sciences at the University of Cyprus and the head of the Laboratory of Biotechnology and Molecular Virology, had identified a strain combining both highly infectious variants, which he thought was responsible for 25 COVID-19 cases. “We will see in the future if this strain is more pathological or more contagious or if it will prevail,” Kostrikis warned.
Per CNBC, Dr. Krutika Kuppalli, a member of the World Health Organization’s COVID-19 technical team, batted down the Deltacron claim as a probable issue in the lab: “contamination of Omicron fragments in a Delta specimen.” One Dr. Tom Peacock, a virologist with the Imperial College London, tweeted that the evil sequences “look to be quite clearly contamination,” which apparently happens in all labs at least sometimes. Dr.
Apparently, real doctors don’t like it when we mash viral names into handy portmanteaus such as “Deltacron” and “flurona” — which, to be clear, never referred to the birth of a new virus but the possibility of getting both the flu and COVID-19 at the same time — because these monikers can catch on quickly and create panic. But Kostrikis, for his part, maintains the cases he found did not come from a “technical error.
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