06-20-2021, 02:12 PM
This was interesting for me. A top public health specialist in South Africa during the plenary address at an HIV Conference suggested that the well known South African variant of Covid 19, Beta (501Y.V2), could have originated from a patient whose immunity was suppressed because of HIV.
Source: https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/...nequality/
Now that opens limitless possibilities. And could also explain why different communities may have different responses to the same Covid 19 vaccine? And how it only takes one person to start it all.
More info about the science of two epidemics colliding (called a syndemic) appears below:
Quote:" [...] for all we know the original 501Y.V2 variant may have come from an immunosuppressed patient with HIV”.
Source: https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/...nequality/
Now that opens limitless possibilities. And could also explain why different communities may have different responses to the same Covid 19 vaccine? And how it only takes one person to start it all.
Quote:Karim’s thesis was reinforced by a later scientific presentation by Professor Tulio de Oliveira, who described “the possibility that immune-compromised individuals (with HIV being the biggest population in Africa) could become the source of SARS-CoV-2 and variant evolution”.
He deduced that it was “most likely that virus evolution was driven by selective pressure from an impaired antibody response (due to HIV)”.
De Oliveria added that this “highlights the possibility that immune compromised individuals (with HIV being the biggest cause of immunosuppression in Africa) could become the source of SARS-CoV-2 and variant evolution.”
More info about the science of two epidemics colliding (called a syndemic) appears below:
Quote:'This is a syndemic,' said Dr. Jonathan Li, using a term that describes the confluence of two epidemics with the potential to worsen outcomes for both.https://www.krisp.org.za/news.php?id=495