Scientists are trying to find a mystery person in Ohio who has a new kind of COVID, and is shedding it into the sewage
Cryptic" COVID lineages show how the virus can mutate in new ways
Johnson told Insider that he has been identifying "cryptic" COVID lineages in wastewater around the country since 2021. These are strains "that don't match anything we've seen before," he said, showing SARS-CoV-2 still has some tricks up its sleeve and there's plenty we don't know.
While these cryptic strains have only been identified in wastewater, they could be harbingers of variants to come. Long before Omicron emerged, researchers were collecting samples of COVID that they didn't recognize — cryptic lineages that we now understand to be similar to Omicron, according to a preprint paper (not-yet-peer-reviewed) published last month by Johnson and his team.
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Doglegwarrior 1 points 1.9 years ago
Lies lies more lies and in the news more lies we are trying to rebrand the flu again and kill more people