Omicron Patient Zero found? Did a collision of COVID-19 and HIV forge the Omicron variant?

[TheWiseShopper]

Originally Posted by Oklazona Bound

I am all for international travel. But that is the problem. Someone comes back from South Africa in Norway and infects 50 at a party. And the party was before Omicron was known to be spreading.

No, Omicron was not here at the time. It was spreading outside the US. So that’s the thing, we found a variant in South Africa… so let’s leave it in South Africa and not bring it to the US. Really that simple!

[ncole1]

Originally Posted by GoldenPineTree

I want to say Omicron has 33 mutations on the Spike protein, 15 inside in the RBD. It has only 3 in the Nucleocapsid protein (N) and 1 on the Envelope Protein (E).

Why so many mutations on Spike? Maybe vaccines are selecting for it

No way to distinguish between vaccine selection and selection by partial natural immunity. May be forever unknown.

[Ponderosa]

A preprint study out yesterday found that there are snipets of genetic code in omicron that match one of the variants of the common cold. This suggests that maybe the virus managed to pick up a mutation from a host that was infected with both covid and a cold at the same time. It also might explain why the omicron appears to be milder than delta (human b cells recognize it) and is infecting young children disproportionately (kids get more colds cuz they have not developed the resistance from repeated bouts that adults have).

[LS Jaun]

Originally Posted by springfieldva

Interesting that Fauci has done heavy research in HIV/AIDS for decades and has just said that Covid could lead to a vaccine against HIV.

Interesting, along with Fauci's direct involvement with the Wuhan lab, long before the Public knew about it.