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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They lie.
...as has been shown time and time again.
Respectfully,
Recovering conspiracy theorist, now turned conspiracy factist
Agree about avoiding Pfizer and Moderna. I had the flu once in the last 40 years. It was 40 years ago, the only year I got a flu shot. We need a bumper sticker:
“Screw the Flu”
Are you "series?" Yeah right.
Go shoot yourself with a booster.
Can anyone say Gain of Function yet?
Yay?
Directed evolution. Quasi-species swarms of SARS-CoV-2 against a population "vaxxed" against a fixed target. A broad range of adaptations proceeding in parallel to find a successful mutation against the "vaxx". If you look at the sequenced "clades", the bushy branching that occurs in the genetic sequence follows "vaccination".
This was all too predictable. Hard pass.
Next on the list:
1. shut down debate,
2. massive MSM propaganda,
3. Congress passes a law for mail in ballots during the mid-terms in all states under the guise of “free and fair elections.”
4. mandate vaccine in order to vote in-person
Not a dumb question and yes.
You should’ve just told him that you understand because “viruses gonna virus.” That’s the short and long of what he was saying in non-medical terms.
I like it! Bring it on!
Shhh. Just quietly go get some.
Everyone needs to read this. Vaccines are changing what it means to be human. I ran this past my friend who is a pharmaceutical company exec and she says it’s true and horrifying.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/lipid-nanoparticles-are-they-subtly-changing-human-beings/
And the holidays. I can already seeing my kids over-react AGAIN.
They talk about cases, but how many of them are “severe?”
I need to double my stash of Ivermectin.
They do say that in the United Kingdom more people who are vaccinated die than unvaccinated
But if the majority are vaccinated then of course, they would die in larger numbers. How would you know?
I think I’ll pass on the clot shot anyway.
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“The good news is that the new “bivalent” vaccine boosters from Pfizer and Moderna seem to work just fine against XBB...”
Oh, what a coincidence. A vaccine that was developed probably at least a year ago just happens to protect against a “naturally occurring variant” that supposedly didn’t exist then.
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