Posts by henjin@gigaohm.bio
 (DIR) Post #AwhVa0UC0w5z47pFZo by henjin@gigaohm.bio
       2025-07-30T14:54:05.241291Z
       
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       You can try to go here: https://wonder.cdc.gov/mcd-icd10-provisional.html. Click "I Agree", in section 1 change "Group Results By" from "Residence Census Region" to "Year", in section 3 click "Single-Year Ages" and select ages 0-5, in section 6 select the categories between A00-B99 and Q00-Q99, and scroll to the bottom and click "Send".The results show that the rate of deaths per 100,000 people was about 81.6 in 2018 and 81.3 in 2024. In order for 2024 to have 68% excess mortality relative to a baseline of 2018, the mortality rate would need to be about 137 (1.68 times 81.6).Ethical Skeptic's new "vaccinial" plot is blatantly fraudulent even by his standards.
       
 (DIR) Post #AwhVa1tklO8TRgnB3Y by henjin@gigaohm.bio
       2025-07-31T02:52:08.805401Z
       
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       What experiments or science did Ethical Skeptic do? He retrieved data from CDC WONDER like me, but he applied a completely ridiculous baseline to the data, where he assumed that deaths in ages 0-5 would've dropped by about 37% between 2019 and 2024. If in reality the deaths dropped by only about 4%, he says it means there were about 50% excess deaths in 2024.The number of deaths with underlying cause A-Q in ages 0-5 was 19015 in 2019 and 18207 in 2024, so the deaths dropped by about 4%. My reverse engineered approximation of Ethical Skeptic's baseline gave me 19311 deaths in 2019 and 12117 deaths in 2024, so the deaths dropped by about 37%. So ES gets about 50% excess deaths in 2024 by dividing the actual deaths 18207 with the baseline value of about 12117.ES will block you if you ask him to document his methodology or to share his spreadsheets or code. He probably knows himself that his methodology does not stand up to scrutiny.
       
 (DIR) Post #AwhzjvVWNOhr955pxY by henjin@gigaohm.bio
       2025-07-30T11:45:07.888191Z
       
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       1. You said there was something unusual about 2020-2023. But what was so unusual in particular about August to September 2021 that deaths in ages 25-44 increased by over 50% in some southern states? The deaths had gone back to normal by November 2021.2. If the spike in deaths in elderly people was not because of opioids, then why should the spike in young people have to be because of opioids? The spike occurred at the same time in young and old people, and in states where old people were missing the spike, young people were also missing the spike.3. If the spike in deaths is explained by COVID hospital protocols, then you don't need opioids to explain the spike.7. Why would young people have been particularly desperate in August to September 2021, but not in July or November 2021?If you think any cause other than opioids may have contributed to the spike in deaths, then you are a traitor to America, and you will be sent to Kulacz's Gulag where you can regret your thought crimes together with Rose and Kory.
       
 (DIR) Post #AwjKOM13Qi1rBXMCrw by henjin@gigaohm.bio
       2025-08-01T13:07:33.525951Z
       
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       In August to September of 2021, young people didn't have a spike in deaths classified as drug deaths or as deaths from external causes. Almost all of the excess deaths were deaths where the underlying cause was listed as COVID.If you claim the spike in COVID deaths is because deaths from external causes were misclassified as COVID deaths, then there would not only need to be much higher than normal number of deaths from external causes in August to September 2021, but there would also need to be a much higher than normal percent of deaths from external causes being misclassified as COVID deaths.
       
 (DIR) Post #AwjuxZ98CTwQORDzY8 by henjin@gigaohm.bio
       2025-08-01T16:42:06.426608Z
       
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       In the United States in the current millennium, there have been two times when deaths in ages 25-44 have increased by over 20% over a period of two months.The first time in February to April 2020 was because of a combination of drug deaths, deaths from external causes, and COVID. But the second time between July and September 2021 was because of COVID (but drug deaths and deaths from external causes remained stable, and the spike didn't occur in states that didn't also have a spike in PCR positivity rate).The total extra deaths during the spike in August to September 2021 weren't even very high compared to the overall excess deaths in 2020-2023, because there was a sustained increase in deaths that started in 2020 and that was largely driven by drug deaths, and by deaths indirectly caused by drugs.So I don't know why you guys have to die on the hill that the spike in August to September 2021 has to also be because of drugs, or why Housatonic is willing to imprison people who say it's not drugs.
       
 (DIR) Post #AwvrG7whUGfzcAWaO0 by henjin@gigaohm.bio
       2025-08-07T09:26:04.847955Z
       
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       That's not Auschwitz but Buchenwald: https://rumble.com/v6woylc-holocaust-handbooks-buchenwald-a-dumb-portrayal-of-evil.html. The human skin lampshades are so fake that even Wikipedia recognizes that they're fake: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lampshades_made_from_human_skin.
       
 (DIR) Post #AxAHlyjyZ6YxLwrP28 by henjin@gigaohm.bio
       2025-08-14T14:58:33.057810Z
       
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       Brandy Vaughan was killed by disinformation. She died of a pulmonary embolism which could've been prevented if she went to a hospital, where she would've been given clot-busting drugs or they could've done a pulmonary embolectomy.But she was afraid to go to a hospital because she believed in disinformation about hospital protocols, so she only went to a hyperbaric treatment center which didn't get rid of the embolism: https://gregwyatt.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/496770295-Brandy-Vaughan-Coroner-Report.pdf.
       
 (DIR) Post #AxATMcdqn23h1cfePQ by henjin@gigaohm.bio
       2025-08-14T17:41:09.898599Z
       
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       I don't think there's any way to untag someone. Did you know that pulmonary embolism is particularly common as a cause of death among women in their 30s and 40s?On CDC WONDER in 2000-2019, there was a total of about million deaths among women in their 40s, but about 2.2% of all deaths had pulmonary embolism listed as a multiple cause of death, and about 0.7% of deaths had pulmonary embolism listed as the underlying cause of death.(The reason why the results are different from the paper I linked is because the paper included deaths that either had underlying cause PE, or that had multiple cause PE but underlying cause some other type of embolism.)
       
 (DIR) Post #AxIs8HnRY03gRI68Dg by henjin@gigaohm.bio
       2025-08-16T19:41:35.983783Z
       
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       This is one of my biggest discoveries, but it has been ignored just like most things I have found, so I'll post it again.Before COVID Jessica Hockett was part of a circle of people who exposed misconduct by a megachurch in Illinois. The circle also included a Twitter user called gooseymarmay77, who appears to have been Jessica Hockett's biggest fan at the time, and who even said that she was going to a party in person with Hockett: https://x.com/gooseymarmay77/status/1202316837352071168, https://x.com/gooseymarmay77/status/1184160098177949698.But gooseymarmay77 said that she was a good friend of the Elmhurst nurse whistleblower Erin Olszewski: https://x.com/gooseymarmay77/status/1253813331347017728. She also said that she was a friend of Sara NP, who did a viral video where she conveyed Erin's message in April 2020, which was when Erin was supposed to still be undercover so she couldn't reveal her identity: https://x.com/gooseymarmay77/status/1258181825844953089. Sara NP's video was even included on David Icke's list of must watch videos about COVID, along with videos of Kaufman, Cowan, Cameron Kyle-Sidell, and Nicole Sirotek: https://davidicke.com/2020/04/06/vital-videos-watching-david-ickes-london-real-interview-today/.
       
 (DIR) Post #AxKa2zlVkXbED4RQqu by henjin@gigaohm.bio
       2025-08-19T14:43:48.695860Z
       
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       The Kohen still hasn't replied to this or posted any correction. How does he know that Limeng Yan did a remote presentation at the real Event 201?
       
 (DIR) Post #AxKfBSluHv38G7U3GK by henjin@gigaohm.bio
       2025-08-19T15:19:33.401764Z
       
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       But I guess it's fine to hate Canadians and Indians, as long as it's on civic nationalist lines and not ethnic lines.Why did Dan Cohen put his name under the claim that Limeng Yan did a remote presentation, if he did not verify the claim himself? And why hasn't he posted any correction after he was informed that the claim was likely wrong? Neither seems like a trait of a genius investigative journalist.This part of the post is also a joke:> Body language analyst Mandy O'Brien noted that despite Yan’s Chinese accent, she never stumbles over English and speaks at a rapid, fluent pace. In one interview on Bannon’s War Room, she briefly drops her accent while saying "sorry" in what sounds like native American English.> The slip, while subtle, suggests she may have spent more time in the U.S. — or even grown up here — than she has ever admitted.
       
 (DIR) Post #AxKjDcYNI3zmzaRFUu by henjin@gigaohm.bio
       2025-08-19T16:30:06.011524Z
       
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       The way Redacted and Cohen framed the story was that "Limeng Yan looks like a fake whistleblower, so therefore the laboratory origin is fake". But the origin of COVID is such an important issue that of course people will be planted to alt media to produce disinformation relating to COVID origins.Serious COVID origin researchers don't accept Limeng Yan's claims, like that ZC45/ZXC21 was used as the backbone for creating SARS-CoV-2. I have also debunked her claim that it's somehow anomalous that the envelope protein of Wuhan-Hu-1 has 100% amino acid identity with ZC45: https://sars2.net/origin.html#100_amino_acid_identity_of_the_envelope_protein_of_ZC45.Billy Bostickson told me that he wouldn't have accepted a certain person into DRASTIC because the person was affiliated with Limeng Yan and Larry Sellin.Dan Cohen is based in DC, which is another red flag apart from his ethnicity. Clayton Morris used to be a news anchor at Fox News, which is another red flag. The cohost of his channel is his wife, who also used to work for mainstream media.Redacted News does a lot of junk conspiracy videos about topics like aliens and chemtrails. They even had Michael Salla on their channel twice. Jim Lee is the top chemtrail conspiracy researcher, but he said that Redacted News was one of the worst promoters of disinformation about chemtrails along with Dane Wigington, The People's Voice, and Twitter accounts like Concerned Citizen.
       
 (DIR) Post #AxN43hili1KVTeKgYS by henjin@gigaohm.bio
       2025-08-19T22:53:02.199259Z
       
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       Trevor Bedford also said that it wasn't unusual that the envelope protein of SARS-CoV-2 had 100% amino acid identity to ZC45: https://x.com/trvrb/status/1224108506799673345. The envelope protein is only 76 aa long, and it's a fairly conserved region.SARS-CoV-2 has about 88% nucleotide identity to ZC45 over the whole genome. The Tor2 reference genome of SARS-CoV similarly has about 88% nucleotide identity to HKU3, but their envelope proteins are 100% identical on the amino acid level.
       
 (DIR) Post #AxN43jRTJIgMoaFts8 by henjin@gigaohm.bio
       2025-08-20T13:15:29.589205Z
       
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       I showed here how you can quantify the diversity in the quasi-species swarm, because Jonathan Engler and Martin Neil were parroting JC's nonsense about quasi-species swarms: https://sars2.net/nopandemic.html#Diversity_of_a_quasi_species_swarm. In a sequencing run for a culture of Snohomish County man's strain, there were only 2 mutations with a frequency between 2% and 90%.It's difficult to estimate the frequency of intra-host SNVs with a frequency below 1%, because it's difficult to tell them apart from sequencing errors. In a paper which looked at 1,347 runs from various bioprojects, the median number of SNVs with a frequency between 1% and 80% was 11.
       
 (DIR) Post #AxN43kfgjveGcxulfc by henjin@gigaohm.bio
       2025-08-20T18:31:20.758235Z
       
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       I guess you mean that in this paper where the authors did direct RNA sequencing of 229E and SARS-CoV, and the vast majority of reads did not cover the entire viral genome: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6724671/.That does not mean that most "viral particles" would not contain an entire replication-competent genome, because the pieces of RNA are fragmented and degraded during the library preparation and sequencing.And also subgenomic RNA segments produced by the virus are not "viral particles", in the same way that pieces of RNA produced by human cells are not human particles. If you sequenced the contents of a human cell and you found many pieces of RNA that did not contain the whole human genome, that does not mean that human cells do not contain a whole replication-competent human genome. But it means that the cell expresses RNA for the proteins it needs to produce, and not for the whole genome.I also don't understand where the figure of 1 in 100,000 comes from. Do you mean that there were 74,783 reads that aligned against the 229E reference, but the authors drew attention to one read that covered almost the entire length of the genome?There were also other reads that covered nearly the entire genome. I got 65,185 reads that aligned against the 229E reference, but 3 reads covered 99% or more of the length of the reference after excluding clipped segments:$ curl 'https://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/efetch.fcgi?db=nuccore&rettype=fasta&id=NC_002645'>229e.fa$ curl -s "https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/portal/api/filereport?accession=ERR3460962&result=read_run&fields=fastq_ftp"|sed 1d|cut -f2|tr \; \\n|sed s,^,ftp://,|xargs wget$ minimap2 -aY --sam-hit-only --secondary=no 229e.fa ERR3460962.fastq.gz|samtools sort -@3 ->229e.bam$ samtools view 229e.bam|cut -f6|ruby -ne'puts$_.scan(/\d+(?=[MD])/).map(&:to_i).sum/27317.0'>temp$ awk '$0>=.99' temp|wc -l3
       
 (DIR) Post #AxN43lWVZXtpGmcx04 by henjin@gigaohm.bio
       2025-08-20T18:35:53.035082Z
       
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       In January 2020 people didn't yet know if SARS-CoV-2 was going to spread through the global population, or if it was going to remain a limited outbreak like the original SARS-CoV, so it made sense to take extra precautions to attempt limiting the spread of the virus.In the years before COVID, many hospitals had invested a lot of money to buy isolation pods and trained their staff to use them. The pods were initially developed to transport Ebola patients. If you worked as an EMT for a hospital that had bought an isolation pod and trained their staff to use it, would you be happy if they asked you to go retrieve the Snohomish County man, but they refused to deploy the isolation pod, so they placed you at an increased risk of catching the virus? Even if you were young and you didn't develop severe symptoms of COVID, you might end up initiating a chain of infections which spreads to thousands of people.I found a blog post by a healthcare worker who said that their hospital started using isolation pods in helicopters and planes that were used to transport COVID patients, because earlier several crew members of their transport aircraft had caught COVID, so some of their helicopters or planes had to be grounded until the crew members could recover (https://ctlin.blog/2020/12/30/transporting-patients-in-the-covid-bag-guest-post-gary-breen-md/):> How are intubated and ventilated Covid-19 patients transported? As a hospitalist located at Yampa Valley Medical Center in Steamboat Springs, I have had to intubate and initial mechanical ventilation on a number of patients infected with Covid-19.> Initially, following the onset of this pandemic, these critically ill patients were being transported via rotor or fixed wing aircraft to our larger UCHealth facilities on the Front Range for optimal care by flight crews donning PPE which included N95 masks, goggles or face shields, gowns and gloves.> Despite this protective gear, many of the flight crews contracted Covid, which resulted in some emergency transport services becoming grounded until crews could recover. A better, safer option for transporting these patients was needed.> Originally developed to transport patients infected with the Ebola virus, The ISO-POD is negative-pressure patient isolation and transport system which allows us to safely transport critically ill Covid-19 patients, while simultaneously providing protection to our emergency personnel. The device has a port which allows for ventilator tubing, IV lines, and monitoring lines to pass, as well as 12 gloved iris openings to allow the flight crew staff access to the patient from head to toe.
       
 (DIR) Post #AxN43mxqDPMDjqQIF6 by henjin@gigaohm.bio
       2025-08-20T19:13:45.419134Z
       
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       I mean think of the scenario: People started to manufacture isolation pods in order to transport patients with Lassa fever and Ebola. Your hospital bought a pod and trained your staff to use it in preparation for a future outbreak of a contageous disease. Now you have been asked to retrieve the first known COVID patient on an entire continent, and you have to decide if you take the pod out of storage or not.At the time only 1 or 2 people are reported to have died from COVID worldwide, and it's not clear if the virus is going to spread to your continent or not. So would you risk not employing the pod as a precautionary measure, if it might result in the virus spreading to an entire continent?The psyop is that the pandemic was fake. Robert David Steele claimed that he was the first person who started to say that the pandemic was fake (https://www.bitchute.com/video/giiDPiEioe0/, time 5:33). But he also said that the virus was a hoax according to Taygetean ETs who were channeled by some Polish people on YouTube.
       
 (DIR) Post #AxQg9wDb6JkfuS22jY by henjin@gigaohm.bio
       2025-08-20T01:39:58.614258Z
       
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       Limeng Yan published a series of three papers called the "Yan reports". The authors of all three papers were listed as Limeng Yan, Shu Kang, and Shanchang Hu: https://zenodo.org/records/4028830, https://zenodo.org/records/4073131, https://zenodo.org/records/4650821.Shu Kang is an interesting person who has been overlooked. He said that Shu Kang was a pseudonym (https://nerdhaspower.weebly.com/about.html). His username on Twitter is nerdhaspower, but he hasn't tweeted since January 2022 (https://x.com/nerdhaspower/with_replies).He may have even been the main author of the Yan reports, because their content is similar to his blog posts. In his blog posts he employed the same MultAlin and SNAP tools that were used in the Yan reports. The second Yan report covered the same material as his blog post about RaTG13, which in turn was based on his article published by GNEWS: https://nerdhaspower.weebly.com/ratg13-is-fake.html.I found only one interview of Shu Kang, which was the episode of Dinggang Wang's show in December 2020 where JC was the guest. The video of the interview that JC recorded had a bad reverb: https://t.wtyl.live/w/3MQ1eFtJte54BkeCxS6fTm. But the reverb was missing from the audio podcast: https://hubbub.top/podcast/20780/3139318/. Shu Kang spoke only briefly at time 35:45 and 1:35:15. He spoke English very fluently, so he is likely to have lived in an English-speaking country.At time 2:29 Dinggang Wang said "Most importantly its E protein is 100% identical to the COVID-19 - I mean, between COVID-19 and the Zhoushan bat coronavirus - which means that COVID-19 has a clear template from the Zhoushan bat coronavirus." At time 17:00 Limeng Yan said that the envelope protein of SARS-CoV-2 being 100% identical to ZC45/ZXC21 was proof that the virus did not come from nature. Then JC said: "That is a really crucial observation. It's one of those things that they don't mention when they mention this paper, and I think it's one of the biggest things in the paper." (But I think it's a nothingburger, because you can find many even more distant pairs of sarbecoviruses that have an identical envelope protein on the amino acid level.)In May 2020 when JC did his special report about the blog post by nerdhaspower, he suggested that the posts in the blog were written by "three or four molecular biologists working together" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0m0pgGw3PM?start=88). However the blog posts seem to have been written in the first person by a single author, so I don't know if JC just assumed that all three authors of the Yan reports also contributed to the blog posts.Shu Kang's article about RatG13 included this note: "The current writing is a reproduction of part of my earlier article (www.nerdhaspower.weebly.com), with two significant additions. The first addition is the analysis of synonymous/non-synonymous mutations of Spike-encoding gene of RaTG13. This was first identified and analyzed by Elannor D. Allens, who described this finding in a comment under my earlier article. Using the synonymous/nonsynonymous ratio between ZC45 and ZXC21 as an example of natural evolution was suggested by 冠军的亲爹. The second addition is the analysis of recently observed mutations in the viral E proteins. This was first observed and analyzed by John F. Signus, who also posted his findings in a series of comments. The writing here owes greatly to their brilliance and insights." (https://nerdhaspower.weebly.com/ratg13-is-fake.html)Shu Kang's blog had comments posted by people with aliases like Viennah K Erchus, Elennor D Allens, John F Signus, Exins FG Adam, Firox TD Jackinson, Exidos B freeman, Suresh K Narayanan, Troy T Dow, Eitcherius F Asken, Nicholas V Thartkins, and Simen D arreighher. I believe most or all of them were posted by Daoyu Zhang.Exins FG Adam wrote posted this comment, where he linked to a preprint Daoyu published under his own name: "https://drive.google.com/open?id=1opowSQgcvpSb58piY1mvSf4AIGzpjssS I have currently submitted this article to preprints.org and other biorxiv.org--Disproving both RaTG13 and MP789." (https://nerdhaspower.weebly.com/blog/scientific-evidence-and-logic-behind-the-claim-that-the-wuhan-coronavirus-is-man-made#comments)Daoyu published two preprints under the pseudonym John D. Signus (https://vixra.org/abs/2010.0164). He used the alias Ersa Flavinkins on Twitter and Gab.So Daoyu seems to have contributed some findings that were incorporated into the Yan reports.In July 2021 someone called Vincent Hung posted a paper to Zenodo titled "Limeng Yan wraps herself as holding the truths which are actually not originated from herself at all", where he pointed out that many of Limeng Yan's supposed discoveries had been presented earlier by people like Shu Kang and Daoyu (https://zenodo.org/records/5136835).(I'm tagging @Housatonic in case he does more research into Limeng Yan in the future.)
       
 (DIR) Post #AxQg9xSAVd09jvrC5I by henjin@gigaohm.bio
       2025-08-20T02:07:53.861008Z
       
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       In the video that JC did about nerdhaspower's blog post in May 2020, he said: "The E proteins between these two army viruses and the current virus that we're facing - the E proteins are identical. It's not identical anymore because there's mutations from the point of release in Wuhan - or the point of starting in Wuhan until now - so the E protein has changed a lot." (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0m0pgGw3PM&start=4m19s)However he was wrong that the E protein had changed a lot by May 2020. At that point there were only about 10 nucleotide changes from Wuhan-Hu-1 throughout the whole genome, and even synonymous mutations in the E protein were rare. In my nearly complete collection of GISAID sequences with a collection date in 2020, there's 31,895 submissions with a collection date in May 2020, but only 561 of them have an amino acid change in the E protein:$ curl -Ls sars2.net/f/gisaid2020.tsv.xz|xz -dc>gisaid2020.tsv$ awk -F\\t 'NR>1&&$10=="Human"{x=substr($4,1,7);a[x]++;n[x]+=$15~/E:/}END{for(i in a)print i,n[i],a[i],n[i]/a[i]*100}' gisaid2020.tsv|sort|column -t2019-12  0     25      02020-01  9     699     1.287552020-02  24    1950    1.230772020-03  357   57721   0.6184922020-04  624   60031   1.039462020-05  561   31895   1.7589 # 1.8% with aa change in E2020-06  838   36448   2.299172020-07  1238  47288   2.6182020-08  919   47455   1.936572020-09  1133  55753   2.032182020-10  2100  95119   2.207762020-11  3044  117231  2.596582020-12  5380  166298  3.23516In NextStrain's subsample of about 4,000 sequences from 2025, almost all sequences have only one amino acid change in the E protein:$ curl https://data.nextstrain.org/files/ncov/open/global/metadata.tsv.xz|xz -dc>global.tsv$ awk -F\\t '$7~/2025/&&NR>1{a[gsub("E:","",$57)]++}END{for(i in a)print i,a[i]}' global.tsv0 63 # 63 sequences with 0 aa changes in E1 4004 # 4004 sequences with 1 aa change in E2 26 # 26 sequences with 2 aa changes in E
       
 (DIR) Post #AxQg9z1efAyucHT32G by henjin@gigaohm.bio
       2025-08-21T14:23:31.353097Z
       
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       When the WHO announced they had adopted the Greek letter naming scheme on May 31st 2021, they wrote: "While they have their advantages, these scientific names can be difficult to say and recall, and are prone to misreporting. As a result, people often resort to calling variants by the places where they are detected, which is stigmatizing and discriminatory." (https://www.who.int/news/item/31-05-2021-who-announces-simple-easy-to-say-labels-for-sars-cov-2-variants-of-interest-and-concern)Around April to May 2021, people started calling Delta the "Indian variant", and before it Alpha used to be called the "UK variant" or "Kent variant". So the WHO wanted to come up with a new name for the "Indian variant" that wouldn't make Indians mad. The Pangolin code for Delta is B.1.617.2 which is hard to remember.Major strains or subtypes of viruses are commonly identified by Latin letters. But Latin letters were already in use by the Pangolin classification scheme, which might explain why the WHO decided to use Greek letters instead.