{"id":46024,"date":"2021-07-14T08:05:48","date_gmt":"2021-07-14T12:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=46024"},"modified":"2021-07-14T07:45:26","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T11:45:26","slug":"letter-viruses-mutate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/14\/letter-viruses-mutate\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter &#8211; Viruses Mutate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>I am a retired dentist who practiced in Wawa for a number of years.\u00a0\u00a0I am not an expert in microbiology but 50 years ago, in dental school, a large portion of the course work was the study of bacteria and viruses and how to protect our patients from them. A quick check shows what was taught then is still true today. Viruses mutate.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>A mutation is a random change in a virus to one with different characteristics. Covid 19 has already mutated. That&#8217;s why we already<\/div>\n<div>have varients such as the Delta which make the virus easier to catch though, thankfully, is still impacted by the vaccines we have.<\/div>\n<div>Mutations take place in a warm human body that has little resistance to the virus. A vaccinated person has strong immunity so the virus is unlikely to live long enough in that person to mutate.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>However, there is the possibility that sooner or later the original Covid-19 virus or one of its variants could change to a form not<\/div>\n<div>affected by the vaccines we have today. In that case, we could have a new pandemic with basically a new virus. That could mean more restrictions to personal freedom and the need for the development and distribution of a completely new vaccine.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Over the last year vaccine developers in different countries and different companies, have been working their butts off to provide us<\/div>\n<div>in record time with anti-Covid 19 vaccines which are safe and effective. The more people are vaccinated the healthier we will all be<\/div>\n<div>and the less chance there will be for the development of a vaccine-resistant Covid-19 variant.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Don&#8217;t let the door stay open for vaccine resistance to happen. Get vaccine protection as soon as possible. Be safe, and help us get our<\/div>\n<div>lives back to normal.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Dr Mark Owen<\/div>\n<div>Wawa, Ontario<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a retired dentist who practiced in Wawa for a number of years.\u00a0\u00a0I am not an expert in microbiology but 50 years ago, in dental school, a large portion &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":32727,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[216],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editorials"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-15 03:00:15","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46024"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46025,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46024\/revisions\/46025"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}