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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You gonna get da vaccines sucka! OR ELSE!!
Oh noes!! 😱
Dumb question: Are these “vaccine” concoctions making the virus stronger by inadvertently guiding its adaptations?
Give 'em another $Billion!
Yeah, not happening.
Currently in Singapore, but Deep State will ENSURE it arrives in America within a week so we can all be locked down for the duration and prevented from voting in person.
October Surprise. Not.
Any news on Ivermectin effectivity on this?
Is this variant more deadly or have worse symptoms. Or just more contagious?
Amazing how our media has no interest in how and where Covid came into being. I don’t have any answers, but why isn’t the question being asked?
Of course it does. smh
“Release the midterm variant!”
The variant named ‘midterm.’
seem to work just fine
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hmm i think i heard that before..
Yes.
OK, from another article “the large majority of patients in Singapore continue to report mild symptoms, such as sore throat or slight fever”
That’s good to know.
The pharmaceutical korporations are determined to hide their crime against humanity by forcing shots on everyone.
Not dumb art all. I was wondering the same thing. Were the jabs a precursor to weaken immune systems so that the midterm variant is worse?
LThe good news is that the new “bivalent” vaccine boosters from Pfizer and Moderna seem to work just fine against XBB...”
WHY OF COURSE THEY DO!
Just in time...lookie there.
Let’s all run out and get one!
::snicker::
Great minds and all
They want to move on because they are afraid of the answers.
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