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.
(Excerpt) Read more at thedailybeast.com ...
Waiting for the democrat/media/big pharma/Faux-xi cheerleaders on here to say the death serum is perfectly safe with 98% efficacy.
No more vaccines regardless of variant, novel virus, mandate, vax pass, or CBDC.
Stop asking those questions.
Your social score was just reduced by 3 points.
>>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.
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Not the correct measurement.
The daily death count in Singapore has elevated in the past few weeks, along with cases. The correct measurement is increase in deaths. Not majority of cases. If X people/day were dying before the variant arrived, and then X +Y% die after the variant arrives, the variant is more deadly.
The young don’t die. The old do. You get tiny death numbers by including in those numbers people who were not going to die regardless.
It’s like computing a society pregnancy rate and including males in the statistics.
I’m already getting a Covid Vax every week. I’m running out of pharmacies to use. I’ll be buying it off the street soon.
“Ultra” Covid???
No worries, I have “ultra” tide.
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Covid, now new and improved!
Does anyone else see the obvious marketing and product lifecycle extension strategies being used here?
I just had someone try to sell me a timeshare in Mexico using some of the same tactics. Hahaha
Here we go again.
compared to how they currently work? - or do they actually work?
I read your article. Although I agree with the author and his experience with the NYC crowd, the vaccines are not fully responsible, they are an added ingredient.
I'm from NYC and moved away for 30 years. Started going back 5 years ago. What the author describes as happening now, I noticed 5 years ago. Cell phones are the cause. People no longer interacted, they had their faces in cell phones. NYC used to have a walking pace. It was brisk. Now it's impossible to do because one bumps into a someone stopping in mid walk to look at their cell. NY-ers walk slower now, in a ADHD style.
Why has no one ever mentioned that all of these are Corona viruse, and Corona viruses represent 40% of all colds, and there is and likely never will be a vaccine for colds.
The Nightmare COVID Variant That Beats Our Immunity Is Finally Here
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The title is worded like someone is getting their wish. Perhaps they are.
####Dumb question: Are these “vaccine” concoctions making the virus stronger by inadvertently guiding its adaptations?######
Or is it weakening the immune system of those that keep getting boosted?
It will be severe until after the election.
Yawn. These articles are like a monthly newsletter.
It’s been just under a year since I changed my Tagline and the current one is just as true today as it was last November.
“The good news is that the new “bivalent” vaccine boosters from Pfizer and Moderna seem to work just fine against XBB”
Not pro or anti vaccine, but no way they could know this yet.
BXX isn’t about about a vax and $billions to Big Pharma - it’s about 2024 mail-in ballots and drop boxes and leaking bathroom sink leaking on floor to shutdown counting threw the nite.
Resist, Do Not Comply!
Ah, they finally released the mid-term variant.
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