The Lambda mutation, or C.37, appears to have emerged in Peru last August -- and is now being blamed for the country having the highest pandemic death rate in the world.
There's also epsilon, zeta, eta, theta, iota and kappa in addition to alpha and delta, obviously. I wouldn't worry too much about every variant the WHO reports as VoC. AFAIK delta is still the most worrisome variant and vaccines still have a high rate of effectiveness against it.
I do agree that western governments are ready to fumble the covid response again, having migrated from the very mistaken idea of building herd immunity, now they are under the impression that immunological hybridization is the fastest exit from the pandemic. Which is lol, they haven't learned shit have they.
There's also epsilon, zeta, eta, theta, iota and kappa in addition to alpha and delta, obviously. I wouldn't worry too much about every variant the WHO reports as VoC. AFAIK delta is still the most worrisome variant and vaccines still have a high rate of effectiveness against it.
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I do agree that western governments are ready to fumble the covid response again, having migrated from the very mistaken idea of building herd immunity, now they are under the impression that immunological hybridization is the fastest exit from the pandemic. Which is lol, they haven't learned shit have they.
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