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PoindexterOglethorpe

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5. No travel history is meaningless.

Reply to appalachiablue (Original post)

Mon Jan 25, 2021, 08:35 PM

Jan 2021

Unless the person has been inside locked room since last March, which I somehow doubt, they are still occasionally coming in contact with other people. So many people go maskless, so many wear them wrong (nose hanging out), so many wear loose knit "gaiters" as masks which are worse than ineffective, it goes on. Add to that, a lot of people are asymptomatic and thus all unknowingly can spread the disease. And, as I understand it, only a tiny fraction of one percent of all positive Covid tests get their DNA sequenced, so we really haven't a clue just what is out there.

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NoVA Patient With No Travel History 1st In State To Test Positive For UK Covid Variant [View all] appalachiablue Jan 2021 OP

I read somewhere that it appears the mutated strain has been showing up in diverse locations captain queeg Jan 2021 #1

Scary, this monster is raging. I just posted above a BBC article appalachiablue Jan 2021 #2

Yeah they waffle on mortality soothsayer Jan 2021 #3

And we'll find out, sooner than later. It's the young, who haven't appalachiablue Jan 2021 #4

No travel history is meaningless. PoindexterOglethorpe Jan 2021 #5