Dr. Seheult illustrates what we know about the coronavirus variants first discovered in California and New York. Will these SARS-CoV-2 variants be more transmissible or cause more severe COVID 19 disease? Learn what the research and experts say so far about these coronavirus mutations (This video was recorded on February 28, 2021).

Roger Seheult, MD is the co-founder and lead professor at https://www.medcram.com
He is Board Certified in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Disease, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine and an Associate Professor at the University of California, Riverside School of Medicine.

LINKS / REFERENCES:

Pfizer and BioNTech Submit COVID-19 Vaccine Stability Data at Standard Freezer Temperature to the U.S. FDA (Pfizer) | https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-release/press-release-detail/pfizer-and-biontech-submit-covid-19-vaccine-stability-data

Moderna Says Covid-19 Vaccine for South Africa Strain Is Ready for Human Testing (WSJ) | https://www.wsj.com/articles/moderna-says-covid-19-vaccine-for-south-africa-strain-is-ready-for-human-testing-11614201000

California coronavirus variant is resistant to antibodies, but vaccines should still work (San Francisco Chronicle) | https://www.sfchronicle.com/health/article/California-coronavirus-variant-is-resistant-to-15976713.php

New research shows California coronavirus variant is more transmissible (Washington Post) | https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/california-covid-variant/2021/02/24/0fb75550-76a3-11eb-948d-19472e683521_story.html

California’s coronavirus strain looks increasingly dangerous: ‘The devil is already here’ (Los Angeles Times) | https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2021-02-23/california-homegrown-coronavirus-strain-looks-increasingly-transmissible-and-dangerous

A New Coronavirus Variant Is Spreading in New York, Researchers Report (NYT) | https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/24/health/coronavirus-variant-nyc.html

SARS-CoV-2 lineage B.1.526 emerging in the New York region detected by software utility created to query the spike mutational landscape (bioRxiv) | https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.02.14.431043v2.full.pdf

A Novel SARS-CoV-2 Variant of Concern, B.1.526, Identified in New York (medRxiv) | https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.02.23.21252259v1.full.pdf

Researchers found more evidence that the variant from South Africa can evade antibodies. (NYT) | https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/01/27/world/covid-19-coronavirus#Covid-antibodies-South-African-variant

Antibody Resistance of SARS-CoV-2 Variants B.1.351 and B.1.1.7 (bioRxiv) | https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.25.428137v3.full.pdf

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