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Covid test: Swab in nose or mouth?

Post-COVID Recovery & COVID-19 | Last Active: Aug 23, 2021 | Replies (16)

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I guess a primary question is how did a variant come to be---i.e. the Covid somehow decided I'll have a child and then another and then another-?--sorry, simplified---but it sounds like the vaccines for Covid aren't that efficient lessening a tough case of something we used to call the flu. Why is each variant related to the Covid---isn't each a flu, like mosts of us have had at one time or another? We didn't feel great, felt lousy at times---we drank fluids, at chicken noodle soup, sometimes were given an antibiotic or got a shot in the rear because we had a significant temp. So, why is there ongoing variants---basicall what caused them and why are we not calling them "the flu" and dealing with them like we always have. One report (not sure from where) said this past week "there were more deaths from the flu than there were from covid" which makes me question just about everything related to the covid and its "children".

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All viruses mutate! Viruses aren’t living things. They need a host to survive – like the cells in your body. Once a virus enters your body, it reproduces and spreads. The more a virus circulates in a population of people, the more it changes (mutates).

When viruses infect you, they attach to your cells, get inside them, and make copies of their RNA, which helps them spread. If there’s a copying mistake, the RNA gets changed. Scientists call those changes mutations.

Lori has given excellent sites. Mine is just a simple explaination.