sport of sacred spherical cows<p>Two weeks ago, Mike Honey noted that there are three recombinants that have arrived on Doppelgänger spike proteins, namely XFJ, XFM, and XFP:</p><p><a href="https://aus.social/@mike_honey_/114611686572899925" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">aus.social/@mike_honey_/114611</span><span class="invisible">686572899925</span></a></p><p>Last week, Xu Zhu (HT D. Focosi) identified a superset of recombinants that have all arrived at a pairing of LF.7's NTD with RBD from elsewhere, namely: XFC, XFG, XFH, XFJ, XFM, XFN and XFP:</p><p><a href="https://x.com/dfocosi/status/1931351676880879856" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">x.com/dfocosi/status/193135167</span><span class="invisible">6880879856</span></a></p><p>Above variants chart <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/AnnoPlot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AnnoPlot</span></a> script is now updated to favor grouping by such emerging clusters preferentially over grouping by legacy ancestors.</p><p>As a reminder, recombinants happen when more than one virus strain is actively replicating in the same organism.</p><p>Here, that means two simultaneous infections, from different sources, finding a home in the same person. </p><p>When <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/PublicHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PublicHealth</span></a> is a priority, this should be a rare occurrence.</p><p>There are seven unique recombinants identified in this new cluster, alone.</p><p>❖ <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/ThisIsOurPolio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThisIsOurPolio</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Covid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Covid</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Covid19" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Covid19</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/SARS2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SARS2</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/variants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>variants</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/CovidIsNotOver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CovidIsNotOver</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/CovidIsAirborne" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CovidIsAirborne</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/dataviz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dataviz</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/datavis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>datavis</span></a></p>