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Of Course: A New COVID Variant Has Arrived Just in Time
PJ Media ^ | 03/04/2022 | Matt Margolis

Posted on 03/04/2022 7:06:33 AM PST by SeekAndFind

The first time Biden declared victory in the war on COVID-19 was on Independence Day last year, and he did so again Tuesday night. “Thanks to the progress we have made this past year, COVID-19 need no longer control our lives,” he said.

But are we getting our hopes up that things will start returning to normal?

“Just as Omicron fades, a new variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 has now been detected in every U.S. state,” reports Joseph Curl at the Daily Wire.

“The variant, which didn’t get its own Greek letter name and is known simply as Omicron BA.2, is more contagious than its brother, but vaccines are effective against it.”

According to Fortune magazine, this new subvariant was originally discovered in Europe earlier this year and is now “becoming the leading strain behind new coronavirus infections in at least 18 countries.”

“A study from Denmark, where stealth Omicron rapidly became the dominant lineage of the virus, sampled 263 cases of COVID reinfection from stealth Omicron in the country, and found that reinfections were nearly four times as common for people who had recovered from the Delta variant than those who had come down with Omicron,” Fortune says. “The good news from the Danish study is that prior infection with Omicron and vaccination seemed to be enough to provide abundant protection to the new strain.”

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: covid; variant
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1 posted on 03/04/2022 7:06:33 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

The election variant.


2 posted on 03/04/2022 7:07:57 AM PST by Huskrrrr (Alinsky, you magnificent Bastard, I read your book!)
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To: Huskrrrr

No, this is just a caretaker variant before the election variant is appointed later in the fall.


3 posted on 03/04/2022 7:09:03 AM PST by cmj328 (We live here.)
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To: SeekAndFind

LOL I checked to see if this was the Bee


4 posted on 03/04/2022 7:09:17 AM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: SeekAndFind

STOP THE TESTING !!!!


5 posted on 03/04/2022 7:09:35 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: Huskrrrr

Well, that’s it then.
Game over.


6 posted on 03/04/2022 7:09:43 AM PST by The Antiyuppie (When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.)
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To: SeekAndFind

biden’s Winter of Death didn’t happen. pedojoe will be looking for some little ones to molest


7 posted on 03/04/2022 7:10:53 AM PST by no-to-illegals ( The enemy has US surrounded. May God have mercy on them)
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To: SeekAndFind

Finally a virus that the vaxxines works on!

Yeah right! Like I will EVER believe ANYTHING the gubmit says again.


8 posted on 03/04/2022 7:11:30 AM PST by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: SeekAndFind

Prior infectuon with Omicron is effective.

You got Omicron natural immunity makes this a cold.

People are sick of being sick with Covid.


9 posted on 03/04/2022 7:11:51 AM PST by Bayard
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To: SeekAndFind

This is natural selection in action.

1. Viruses naturally mutate all the time. It’s what they do, naturally.
2. Those variants that do a poor job of infecting new hosts die off.
3. Those variants that do a good job of infecting new hosts AND DON’T KILL THEM are the MOST prevalent ones.
4. Over time the virus becomes just part of the biome. Like e Coli, a bacterium which is EVERYWHERE.


10 posted on 03/04/2022 7:13:20 AM PST by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitur: ad ferre non, velit esse sine defensione)
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“A study from Denmark, where stealth Omicron rapidly became the dominant lineage of the virus"

Somebody is typing without thinking. What is "stealth Omicron"? What is the "dominant lineage"? Is that like a "dominant variant"? Why not say that? "dominant lineage" is a stupid term.

11 posted on 03/04/2022 7:13:21 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (Ukraine is not a good country and does not deserve active US support.)
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To: Huskrrrr

The election variant.

Politician strain , will take out 99.99999% of politicians ?


12 posted on 03/04/2022 7:15:35 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: SeekAndFind

Horse hocky.


13 posted on 03/04/2022 7:17:59 AM PST by LIConFem (Read up on Russia's Oct, 1917 Revolution... And prepare.)
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To: Blueflag
1. Viruses naturally mutate all the time. It’s what they do, naturally.

What about lab created Frankenviruses released in succession to herd the fearful populace into Eldercide jabs?
14 posted on 03/04/2022 7:21:25 AM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: Blueflag

Isn’t it amazing that you learn all that as a first year biology major, but somehow those facts seem to have escaped all the poobahs at the CDC, NIH, etc?


15 posted on 03/04/2022 7:26:42 AM PST by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: SeekAndFind

“The variant, which didn’t get its own Greek letter name”

Xi isn’t taken for some strange reason. /sarc


16 posted on 03/04/2022 7:30:25 AM PST by packagingguy
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To: Regulator

This thing has been circulating for about 12 weeks. I think o saw the first report around New Years. It’s a genetic drift not a genetic shift.

There is for the first time since the craziness began not a variant of significant change on the horizon. It’s over


17 posted on 03/04/2022 7:30:33 AM PST by gas_dr (Conditions of Socratic debate: Intelligence, Candor, and Good Will. )
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To: SeekAndFind

And it has no symptoms so you won’t even know you had it unless you take a test from China that’s infected with it. 😆


18 posted on 03/04/2022 7:30:53 AM PST 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: Regulator

It hasn’t really escaped them, they just ignore facts in order to create their “new truth” with which to subdue the nation


19 posted on 03/04/2022 7:30:55 AM PST by Bob434
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To: SeekAndFind

Of Course: A New COVID Variant Has Arrived Just in Time FOR THE 2022 ELECTION CYCLE!-)


20 posted on 03/04/2022 7:36:01 AM PST by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US:-))
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