Although COVID-19 infections are much less deadly than during their first year, the cunning and elusive virus has since developed a large number of mutations far exceeding the rate that was initially observed. Where do these variants come and what circumstances empower them?
Virus “detectives” at Tel Aviv University (TAU) and Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center have uncovered the answers. Patients with weakened immune systems from chronic diseases and those given medications that reduce the body’s ability to fight invading pathogens are at risk for chronic infection and develop several highly mutated coronavirus variants.
Although this is disconcerting, there is also some good news: While many different variants are formed in immunocompromised patients, these mutated forms are less likely to spread to others.
Editor’s Note: This is absolutely ridiculous and reminds me of another medical phenomenon with so called ‘auto-immune disease’. Mainstream medical research and science blames the individual’s immune system for causing disease when meanwhile the main question of, what is the immune system actually attacking is completely disregarded. It is a coverup and needs to end. — mmd