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Posted on 09/16/2024 10:48:10 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
People have started catching a new Covid variant that could soon take off and become the dominant type, according to scientists. Identified in Germany, in June, cases of the XEC variant have since emerged in the UK, US, Denmark and several other countries, say users on X, formerly known as Twitter. It has some new mutations that might help it spread this autumn, although vaccines should still help prevent severe cases, experts say. For those more likely to become seriously ill from Covid, the NHS offers a free booster shot.
The vaccines have been updated to better match recent variants, although not XEC, which has emerged from earlier Omicron subvariants. Prof Francois Balloux, Director of the Genetics Institute at University College London, told BBC News that although XEC has a "slight transmission advantage" over other recent Covid variants, vaccines should still offer good protection. He says it is possible XEC will become the dominant subvariant over the winter though.
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Just more VARIANTS ... which is exactly what we were told by REAL docs/scientist would be happening, if TPTB tried to jab their way out of a pandemic.
The jabs have prolonged this China Virus and is the gift that keeps on giving.
:-(
“I better start panicking and go to Walmart and buy all the water and toilet paper ASAP. (S)”
Why bother, it just delays the inevitable. And then, there’s climate change.
“Get tested hourly or you may not know you have it...”
Our fearless leaders seem to be far more affected by Covid than us plebs, and it scares them.
Or just test yourself 4 times at once and pick the results you like the best.
Isn’t this the beginning of flu season?? I have a coworker who was out last 2 weeks has had Covid 3 times now, I said you just had your 4th booster 3 weeks ago, his response to me was if I hadn’t have had those 4 boosters it would have been a lot worse, I said worse than being sick for 2 weeks REALLY??? OMG he faithfully wears his damn mask every stinking day YET has not come to the realization that what he is doing IS NOT WORKING!! You just can’t fix brainwashed stupidity!!!
Ooh, lock us down immediately and vaccinate, vaccinate, vaccinate!
Roll out those boosters before we all die!
By the way, get those ballots out now, and more drop boxes please! A drop box on every corner so if we get struck down by this new scary variant we’ll only have a few yards to go to drop off our Kamala vote.
/sarc
Seriously, you’re right. Glowbull warming is supposed to kill us off in a few years. Covid can do it tomorrow.
Best get in line for the vaxes, stock up on masks and lecture your fellow shoppers for not social distancing.
xoxox :” “xec” — now (finally) that’s a catchy name. it might get legs. “
BigFreakinToad :” the only cure is mail in ballots "
"People have started catching a new Covid variant that could soon take off and become the dominant type, according to scientists.
Identified in Germany, in June, cases of the XEC variant have since emerged in the UK, US, Denmark and several other countries,
say users on X, formerly known as Twitter.
It has some new mutations that might help it spread this autumn, although vaccines should still help prevent severe cases, experts say.
For those more likely to become seriously ill from Covid, the NHS offers a free booster shot.
"The vaccines have been updated to better match recent variants, although not XEC,
which has emerged from earlier Omicron subvariants.
Prof Francois Balloux, Director of the Genetics Institute at University College London,
told BBC News that although XEC has a "slight transmission advantage" over other recent Covid variants,
vaccines should still offer good protection.
He says it is possible XEC will become the dominant subvariant over the winter though."
(My Opinion) : Is this to be this election year's "October Surprise" ?
It seems to be a little too late for a contagion disaster in order to affect the elections
Perhaps for later, in early winter ?
eXtreme Election Conspiracy variant.
Better to halt the election until it is safe to re-elect Harris.
Government has provided $$ billions to do this research and told them what results they were to come up with.
The only people I know getting kung flu, now, have all been boosted several times.
“Get tested hourly or you may not know you have it...”
LOL! An acquaintance of mine STILL tests herself on a regular basis. Whether it’s a false-positive or not, she’s had CovidBS-19 at LEAST a half-dozen times since this idiocy began.
Miraculously, she’s ‘over it’ in a few days each time.
Most likely it’s because she’s lazy and there must’ve been something ‘hard’ for her to do at her CUSHY state job each time she’s ‘gotten sick.’
*Rolleyes*
Vaccines “should help” prevent transmission. Should not will and help not actually prevent. Advertising language.
Election season is covid season.
Election steal variant. It’s in the bag.
My pronouns are he, him, and xec.
monkey pox didn’t get traction, so lets go with something we already know, COVID.
They mean the DNC COVID variant.
Or the “XTC” variant, as in “Joy”.
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