Posted on 10/17/2022 9:46:33 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski
A new subvariant of the novel-coronavirus called XBB dramatically announced itself earlier this week, in Singapore. New COVID-19 cases more than doubled in a day, from 4,700 on Monday to 11,700 on Tuesday—and XBB is almost certainly why. The same subvariant just appeared in Hong Kong, too.
A highly mutated descendant of the Omicron variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that drove a record wave of infections starting around a year ago, XBB is in many ways the worst form of the virus so far. It’s more contagious than any previous variant or subvariant. It also evades the antibodies from monoclonal therapies, potentially rendering a whole category of drugs ineffective as COVID treatments.
“It is likely the most immune-evasive and poses problems for current monoclonal antibody-based treatments and prevention strategy,” Amesh Adalja, a public-health expert at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, told The Daily Beast.
That’s the bad news. The good news is that the new “bivalent” vaccine boosters from Pfizer and Moderna seem to work just fine against XBB, even though the original vaccines are less effective against XBB. They won’t prevent all infections and reinfections, but they should significantly reduce the chance of severe infection potentially leading to hospitalization or death. “Even with immune-evasive variants, vaccine protection against what matters most—severe disease—remains intact..,” Adalja said.
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Don’t worry, I have been hearing that a really killer variant is being cooked up in Boston.
Just get some ivermectin on hand and there’s no problem. Azithromycin will take care of secondary infection in the lungs if that happens.
BTDT with family and friends. Get from India, cheap and easy. Everyone should have them.
" ACIP committee will likely add the COVID vaccines to the childhood vaccination program on Thursday This will allow the vaccine makers to escape product liability for the adult vaccines which means the "emergency" can end, but the liability protection lives on."
No liability of vaccine makers for faulty "vaccines" ( which required the CDC to change the language of the term "vaccine"),
changes not just the legal definition of a "vaccine" to comply with the covid biologic injection,
but also ignores the adverse medical conditions suffered by some of the injected patients (see: CDC's own 'VAERS' website).
This proposed change removes any supervision, oversight, or accountability from "gain of function" virus research,
which indications are the probable source of the covid man-made virus in the first place.
Also, there has been no further international investigation of the source of the covid virus except those investigators who were chosen by China authorities.
This is an agency-wide cover up of probable defective medications by the NIH/FDA/CDC medical cabal to protect Big Pharma,
which already enjoys an incestuous relationship with these agencies through interlocking boards, joint memberships, and exchange of influential decision makers.
Children not only do not need any vaxes, they are getting autism from vaxes, and CDC has finally admitted it, but not very publically.
That alone will triple the # of home-schooled children. God’s Blessing to you parents who home-school, can be inconvenient but not difficult and very rewarding to all involved.
Pool your resources betw like minded parents IOW if you are good at math and teaching math but another parent is better at English swap teaching time.
I’m surprised churches w/o schools haven’t started pooling their resources to help home-schooler parents.
There was a time in the USA where education was predominately provided by churches.
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