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RandySF

(58,728 posts) Wed Jan 5, 2022, 05:54 PM Jan 2022

COVID testing site at the Getty Center has detected LA's first case of flurona

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CBS Los Angeles
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#BREAKING: A COVID testing site at the Getty Center has detected LA's first case of flurona, a combination of influenza and coronavirus.

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COVID testing site at the Getty Center has detected LA's first case of flurona (Original Post) RandySF Jan 2022 OP

We've reached peak turducken C_U_L8R Jan 2022 #1

Hahahaha! Grasswire2 Jan 2022 #9

swell StarryNite Jan 2022 #2

What's next fluronabola? Blues Heron Jan 2022 #3

So I guess the only thing left is for that space junk to fall on us all. Vinca Jan 2022 #4

lol, A comet will come after the space junk so that's something to look forward to / sarc uponit7771 Jan 2022 #7

Just keeps mutating. Emile Jan 2022 #5

There is no such mutation obamanut2012 Jan 2022 #6

This, anyone who uses that misleading term should be ashamed Amishman Jan 2022 #10

It's not a mutation, it's two separate viruses existing simultaneously in the same host. Torchlight Jan 2022 #15

I hate that word Jerry2144 Jan 2022 #8

Flurona: Tomconroy Jan 2022 #11

+1 crickets Jan 2022 #12

All I can think about is The Knack n/t leftstreet Jan 2022 #13

That's what I was thinking Just_Vote_Dem Jan 2022 #14

C_U_L8R

(44,997 posts)

1. We've reached peak turducken

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Wed Jan 5, 2022, 05:57 PM

Jan 2022

Emphasis on turd.

Grasswire2

(13,565 posts)

9. Hahahaha!

Reply to C_U_L8R (Reply #1)

Wed Jan 5, 2022, 06:17 PM

Jan 2022

I laughed out loud at that.

Well said!!

StarryNite

(9,442 posts)

2. swell

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Wed Jan 5, 2022, 05:59 PM

Jan 2022

Blues Heron

(5,931 posts)

3. What's next fluronabola?

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Wed Jan 5, 2022, 06:05 PM

Jan 2022

Vinca

(50,255 posts)

4. So I guess the only thing left is for that space junk to fall on us all.

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Wed Jan 5, 2022, 06:05 PM

Jan 2022

uponit7771

(90,335 posts)

7. lol, A comet will come after the space junk so that's something to look forward to / sarc

Reply to Vinca (Reply #4)

Wed Jan 5, 2022, 06:16 PM

Jan 2022

Emile

(22,643 posts)

5. Just keeps mutating.

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Wed Jan 5, 2022, 06:08 PM

Jan 2022

obamanut2012

(26,064 posts)

6. There is no such mutation

Reply to Emile (Reply #5)

Wed Jan 5, 2022, 06:15 PM

Jan 2022

The header and tweet are clickbait.

Amishman

(5,554 posts)

10. This, anyone who uses that misleading term should be ashamed

Reply to obamanut2012 (Reply #6)

Wed Jan 5, 2022, 06:18 PM

Jan 2022

There's enough real shit to be afraid of without misleading people into thinking they've somehow combined

This is just some unlucky person who caught both

Torchlight

(3,313 posts)

15. It's not a mutation, it's two separate viruses existing simultaneously in the same host.

Reply to Emile (Reply #5)

Wed Jan 5, 2022, 08:06 PM

Jan 2022

No different than having a cold and a stomach virus at the same time.

Jerry2144

(2,096 posts)

8. I hate that word

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Wed Jan 5, 2022, 06:16 PM

Jan 2022

It makes pale think we have a new hybrid variant. What is really going on is a concurrent infection by the COVID virus and by an influenza virus. These two have not cross-bred. Yet.

But viruses are unusual chunks of genetic code in a fat ball (like 45, but tinier). Is it possible for genetic material to swap between completely unrelated families of viruses if they infect the same host cell?