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New, highly transmissible COVID-19 strain fueling wave of infections across US
NY Post ^ | 10/01/25 | Tracy Swartz

Posted on 10/02/2025 1:44:56 AM PDT by Libloather

Just in time for respiratory virus season, a highly transmissible COVID-19 strain is fueling a wave of infections across the US.

The XFG variant, informally known as “Stratus,” has been driving up case numbers. Stratus’ ability to evade immune system defenses has propelled it past NB.1.8.1 (aka “Nimbus”) as the dominant Covid strain.

The increased Covid activity comes as the US heads into fall respiratory illness season — which tends to bring a rise in cases of the common cold, flu and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) — and amid evolving guidance for Covid vaccines.

The level of Covid viral activity in wastewater is “moderate” nationally, according to Sept. 20 data, the latest available from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Nineteen states are reporting “high” or “very high” levels of the virus in wastewater, with Nevada, Utah, Connecticut and Delaware leading the way.

Stratus, a hybrid of two Omicron sub-strains, was initially detected in January in Southeast Asia and in the US in the spring.

It had spread to 38 countries by June, prompting the World Health Organization to describe it as a “variant under monitoring.”

Stratus is known to cause hoarseness and a scratchy or sore throat, which can be mistaken for allergies.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Health/Medicine; Science
KEYWORDS: averdarwinawards; biologicalwarfare; covid; infections; mask; strain
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To: Libloather

Covid, schmovid.
Not playing pandemic again.


41 posted on 10/02/2025 5:25:12 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: Libloather

democrats release another virus to stop President Trump?


42 posted on 10/02/2025 5:55:52 AM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: Libloather

yeah, I don’t care. They can call anything they want covid. I still don’t care.


43 posted on 10/02/2025 6:09:56 AM PDT by Pollard
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To: the_Watchman

I took some last night.
I woke up yesterday with a slight headache and an upset stomach. Which meant I was fighting some kind of bug.

Either that or I didn’t remember getting drunk the night before(just kidding).
My wife measured out a 5ML doseage and shot it into my mouth with a syringe.

We buy the clear liquid version from the pet supply companies. We use it to give to the puppies and adult dogs on a regular basis. All canines get worms. Puppies get the worms from drinking their mother’s milk. So, you treat them with Ivermectin which KILLS parasites.

FYI, the bottle says right on it NOT FOR HUMAN USE.


44 posted on 10/02/2025 6:18:29 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: Cowgirl of Justice
2 weeks later. Sore throat, chest congestion, severe sinus drainage, coughing, achiness and weakness

There's a pretty bad cold going around, sinus drain, then throat soreness, then head congestion, then cough. Takes about two weeks to clear. No need for meds.

45 posted on 10/02/2025 6:27:21 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: woodbutcher1963

These people are so crock full of Schlitz.


46 posted on 10/02/2025 6:28:43 AM PDT by Colt1851Navy (What was wrong with riminalNixon?)
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To: Libloather

“Evade immune defenses”

Would that be a compromised immune system damaged by previous Covid injections?

Keep ivermectin handy.


47 posted on 10/02/2025 6:37:34 AM PDT by grumpygresh
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To: woodbutcher1963

Could you share a source for getting it. I’ve been wanting to try it for rosacea.


48 posted on 10/02/2025 6:45:33 AM PDT by ThisLittleLightofMine
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To: Libloather

another bullshit article about “wave of new infections” based solely on wastewater viral loads [LAST sentence in fear-mongering article], a fraudulent metric that has NEVER been correlated with ACTUAL symptomatic illness and hospitalization ... even biden’s CDC said there was no correlation ...


49 posted on 10/02/2025 7:07:09 AM PDT by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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To: ansel12

Yeah...sounds like strep throat


50 posted on 10/02/2025 7:07:14 AM PDT by goodnesswins (Make educ institutions return to the Mission...reading, writing, math...not Opinions & propaganda)
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To: Puppage

I forgot about those Supermarket arrows that nobody in my town paid attention to.


51 posted on 10/02/2025 7:26:00 AM PDT by sockmonkey (Conservative. Not a Neocon.)
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To: Gene Eric

How come they’re always “New and Highly Contagious!” We never get one that’s “New and Almost Impossible to Catch?”


52 posted on 10/02/2025 7:27:05 AM PDT by John Milner (Marching for Peace is like breathing for food.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Everything is covid now. The common head cold is extinct. Bronchitis is extinct. Its all covid all the time.


53 posted on 10/02/2025 7:42:54 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Libloather; Jane Long
Wear a mask.

No.


54 posted on 10/02/2025 7:45:22 AM PDT by Allegra (Thank you for your attention to this matter. )
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To: sockmonkey
I forgot about those Supermarket arrows that nobody in my town paid attention to.

Most people around here didn’t either. The ones who did tended to have masks on.

55 posted on 10/02/2025 8:06:35 AM PDT by Allegra (Thank you for your attention to this matter. )
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To: the_Watchman

IVM works like a charm. Just take enough of it for 5 to 7 days .

Protocols, dosage by weight:

https://imahealth.org/protocol/i-care-early-covid-treatment/#table-one


56 posted on 10/02/2025 8:26:38 AM PDT by Candor7 (Ask not for whom the Trump Trolls,He trolls for thee!<img src="" width=500</img><a href="">tag</a>) )
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To: Georgia Girl 2; Allegra; John Milner; sockmonkey; goodnesswins; catnipman; ThisLittleLightofMine; ..
Everything is covid now. The common head cold is extinct. Bronchitis is extinct. Its all covid all the time.

The DimWIT health terrorists want the sheeple to get updated for their boosters but there is a parakeet who is singing louder and louder. It turns out, according to the singing parakeet, that highly vaxxxxxxxxxxinated populations:

SUBSTACK LINK In other words, a substantial proportion of C-19 vaccinees in highly vaccinated countries will find themselves without a functional immune defense, thereby enabling this suddenly emerging coronavirus lineage to acquire a high level of viral virulence and unleash a tsunami of hyperacute death.

The key words:

1. HIGHLY VAXXXXXXXXINATED POPULATIONS

2. Destroyed immune systems

3. acquire a high level of viral virulence and unleash a tsunami of hyperacute death

The evolving strain of Corona virus Gert VanDen Bossche calls HIVICRON is going to kill the vaxxxxxxxxinated in mass numbers but the non vaxxxxxxxxinated still have a functioning immune system which will mean they will survive the coming vaxxxxxxxxxxxine caused death wave.

Let's all hope Gert VanDen Bossche is wrong but don't get any more boosters OR flu shots in the future.

57 posted on 10/02/2025 8:30:53 AM PDT by politicianslie (Gold is the money of kings, silver for gentlemen, barter for peasants, debt is money for slaves )
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To: the_Watchman
Why isn’t anyone on this thread mentioning Ivermectin?!

There was a test case of the AMA cooperating with victims to utilize IVM, keto, Vit. C, exercise, and diet just a few weeks past. I'm waiting to hear about a complete recovery, as the victim almost died once.

58 posted on 10/02/2025 9:20:02 AM PDT by RideForever (Damn, another dangling par .....)
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To: albie

Apparently

At least when that happened


59 posted on 10/02/2025 9:26:00 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: politicianslie

We just got over what amounted to a 3 day head cold and lingering cough. We were never that sick its just hard to shake the cough. We take heavy duty daily supplements anyway so we took HCQ and colloidal silver. Was it covid? Who knows?


60 posted on 10/02/2025 9:30:36 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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