First Case Of The Lambda Covid Variant Reported In Los Angeles, But It's Not Yet Much Of A Match For

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First Case Of The Lambda Covid Variant Reported In Los Angeles, But It’s Not Yet Much Of A Match For Delta


The first case of the much-talked-about Lambda variant of Covid-19 was reported by Los Angeles health officials on Thursday. But for all the fanfare, Lambda doesn’t seem to have been much of a match for Delta – yet.

“We’ve only seen one Lambda variant among tests sequenced in our labs, and this was a sample from June,” said L.A. County Director of Public Health Barbara Ferrer. The fact that Lambda was sequenced in June and has not been found since would seem to indicate it’s not spreading rapidly — if at all — in the county which, according to Ferrer, saw the powerful Delta variant account for “99% of all sequences last week.”

Lambda was first identified in Peru in December 2020, according to the World Health Organization. It’s become the dominant strain in South America, spread overseas and been identified as a variant of interest by WHO. Scientists are still trying to understand whether Lambda is more transmissible, but a July study, which has yet to be peer reviewed, indicated Lambda may be able to evade vaccines.

Los Angeles only genomically sequences a small number of positive test samples every week which are flagged by medical experts as possible variants of interest or concern.

Read more: https://deadline.com/2021/08/first-case-of-lambda-variant-in-los-angeles-1234814899/

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1. The US needs to attack this pandemic for what it is,

a global problem. The rest of the world has only a small portion of its population vaccinated. We got the Delta virus from a poorly vaccinated India. The Lambda virus came from a poorly vaccinated South America. We are not going to defeat this pandemic if we don't treat it like a pandemic.