Corona-chan's Unflattened Curves Keep Growing

Pandemic:Declared
Containment: Failed
Lockdown: Initiated
Economy: Crashed
Vaccine: In Development
Nothingburgers: out of stock
Clown World: Infected
Previous thread: https://dis.tinychan.org/read/lounge/1579944411
Current stats: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries
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List of strains: https://nextstrain.org/ncov

Furin-binding strain discovered
https://www.thailandmedical.news/news/breaking-new-research-indicates-sars-cov-2-coronavirus-is-indeed-mutating-into-various-strains-that-have-specific-preference-of-attacking-human-host-
The new evolved ZJ01 strain has a better affinity of binding to the furin-cleavage sites and it produced milder symptoms in the infected patients and less damage to the lungs and kidneys. However researchers warned although the patients from these strains recovered faster, the midterm and long term effects of the residual viral loads or dormant loads in the patients could be more harmful in the future but studies are needed to carefully observe and conclude that.