Here is a little context for the fear porn merchants. Tracking it since March and yet only 10,000 cases of this “high infection” variant are reported?
As usual, the spin does match the data.
According to a CDC report, among 83 residents and 116 healthcare workers, 26 residents and 20 workers tested positive for Covid. Twenty eight specimens were subjected to whole genome sequencing and, on March 1, found to have mutations that aligned with the R.1 lineage. (The outbreak reportedly began with an infected staffer.) “Attack rates were three to four times as high among unvaccinated residents and [workers] as among those who were vaccinated,” according to the findings.+
MNJohnnie wrote:
Here is a little context for the fear porn merchants. Tracking it since March and yet only 10,000 cases of this “high infection” variant are reported?”
From the article:
“(The outbreak reportedly began with an infected staffer.) “
Same as what happened in Washington state early on in the pandemic, staffer at a nursing home brought it in...
But, the larger issue with this variant is, if they’ve been tracking it since March, why bring it up now?
To keep people afraid.