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Originally Posted by 1andrew1
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If I might highlight a couple of facts:
- WHO has classed it a variant of interest. It is not a variant of concern at this time.
- There are five variants of interest at present so the classification of Mu in this way is not a cause for fevered speculation or alarm, any more than was the case with Eta, Iota, Kappa or Lambda (two of which were designated as long ago as last March). All five of these variants were first identified last year.
- Studies will establish *if* it is vaccine resistant. The conducting of studies is not a reason to over-emphasise the possibility of vaccine resistance. Lurid headlines are best left to the Press.
The discovery and classification dates of all nine major covid variants are worth bearing in mind, to try to keep this in perspective. There’s lots of info here:
https://www.who.int/en/activities/tr...oV-2-variants/