Posted on 06/17/2025 5:45:49 PM PDT by DoodleBob
A new COVID-19 variant, nicknamed Nimbus, is rising around the world — including in California — and known for giving “razor blade throat” symptoms.
Officially called NB.1.8.1, the variant was labeled a “variant under monitoring” by the World Health Organization on May 23, according to a recent report. That means it’s not currently a major threat; however, it’s spreading fast enough to raise flags. As of late April, it made up 10.7% of global COVID-19 samples, a jump from 2.5% just a month earlier.
The variant was first spotted in January and carries several genetic changes, particularly in the spike protein, the part of the virus that helps it infect human cells. Some of those changes might help it spread more easily or avoid the body’s immune response, especially in those who were previously infected or vaccinated.
“Every time you get a new strain, it always is a little bit more transmissible than what came before it,” Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, a UCSF infectious disease specialist, told SFGATE. “Just like a pop song is more catchy when it rises to the top of the charts. And this particular one, Nimbus, is not just proportionally higher right now in California, the speed at which it’s rising in the charts is also high … but it’s not more severe.”
Stanford’s Clinical Virology Laboratory confirmed one of the first cases of the variant in California on April 17 in the GISAID COVID-19 database, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. Although most infections in the U.S. are still caused by a related variant called LP.8.1 — a descendant of Omicron — Nimbus is rapidly gaining ground.
…State officials said the variant is currently growing faster than other strains and is being tracked closely through genomic sequencing and wastewater surveillance.
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For the morons who believe rags like this, "razor blade throat" is a sufficiently scary propaganda name to get them to get boosted and obey any new quarantine policies. But for those Libs who still are brave enough to go outside, the next "MAGA" strain will allegedly make them vote Republican and buy a Trump phone.
Too early, midterms are next Fall.
Just reading the name of the virus: Razor Blade Throat, makes me want to reach for a tall glass of water.
The person or committee who selected this title might be the same ones who are naming hurricanes or phases of the Moon for the last few years.
I had a razor blade throat COVID at the end of December. It is a perfect way to describe how my throat felt.
razor blade throat is not hyperbole. i have had mono and strep throat during my life. this was way worse.
Strep feels like broken glass every time you swallow. I had the flu over a dozen years ago, and then got opportunistic strep. I’ll never forget it.
Funny, that was the first (and last) time I got a flu shot.
Yikes! I’ve had some nasty sore throats in my life, does not sound fun.
I prefer to call it “WHY HAVEN’T WE NUKED CHINA YET rev 6”
then add awful coughing to the mix. it was a nightmare.
If i get this again i am going to ask for lidocaine popsicles or lollipops
So dangerous you need to be tested to even know if you have it.
How many variants were released?
Wife has it, and said that her throat feels exactly like that.
This is the Covid my hubby got back in 2021. He could not swallow with writhing in pain. Kinda scary to be the caretaker but He was admitted into the hospital right away and was there for a week. While there they discovered that he had colon cancer.
Oops I missed the correction. It should say could not swallow without writhing in pain.
never even caught Covid, no idea what all the fuss was about
More uncontrolled experiments?
9 minute compilation of Strepsils ads...
I pray he’s better.
I recall watching videos from whistle blower nurses who said Covid ‘variants’ only exist outside the hospital. They are not documented, charted, talked about, treated differently or...anything to indicate they exist. It’s as if ‘variants’ exist to push new boosters and to help the political scene. For example, Newsom wants ICE, Marines, NG out of California and perhaps he can fan the flames and try to scare servicemen/women and maybe demand they get vaccinated. Or maybe Newsom also wants to infuriate the CA citizens by implying ‘we were fine w/o Covid until the Marines/Showed up!!!’ We’ll see.
The ex Chief Scientist of Pfizer’s Allergy and Infections Diseases wing said that people who recovered from SARS in 2003 were immune to Covid because the immune system doesn’t need to be that specific - the SARS and Covid viruses had some overlap and the body recognized it and their immunity held.
The generic nature of immunity in this respect (immunity to viruses with some ‘similar’ portions makes sense otherwise we’d have to get every conceivable disease under the sun and defeat them one at a time.
Even the CDC seems to inadvertently confirm this because the ‘Covid’ PCR ‘test’ of the Plandemic was not based on identifying the Covid virus. Instead, according to the CDC, the Covid PCR test was based on a ‘related corona virus’.
Well, but the CDC also said that Covid was ‘novel’ (our bodies had zero immunity to it) and therefore justified all the lockdowns and EUA’s based on this ‘novel’ classification. This, of course, was a lie. Many had immunity and they knew Covid was not ‘novel’ and therefore had no justification for lockdowns and vaccine mandates etc.
I went through that as well when in the military. Luckily, it was during Desert Storm, and my roommate was deployed, so I was allowed to stay in there alone. But it sucked, and I could barely swallow.
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