Posted on 06/13/2022 9:06:35 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The CDC estimates that two Omicron subvariants experts have been watching closely now account for more than 7 percent of New England COVID-19 cases.
The BA.4 subvariant accounts for 4.4 percent of cases, while the BA.5 subvariant accounts for 2.8 percent, the public health agency estimates.
Nationally, BA.4 accounts for 5.4 percent of cases, while BA.5 accounts for an estimated 7.6 percent, according to the CDC estimates.
The subvariants BA.2.12.1 and BA.2 still account for many more cases both nationally and in New England. In New England, BA.2.12.1 accounts for 64.5 percent of cases and BA.2 accounts for 28.3 percent of cases.
But experts say the new subvariants, first identified in South Africa, could end up elbowing out BA.2.12.1 and BA.2, just as those two variants elbowed out the BA.1 subvariant before them.
“We are probably past the peak of the BA.2.12.1 wave,” said Dr. Jacob Lemieux, an infectious disease specialist at Massachusetts General Hospital, who is also coleader of the viral variants program at the Massachusetts Consortium on Pathogen Readiness. “We’re at the beginning of seeing the impact of BA.4 and 5, which are the South African variants . . . and we do think they’re more transmissible and likely going to cause some surge in cases or, at least, that’s a real possibility.”
He said over the next few weeks, until around July 4, he expected “fairly sustained transmission” that would hopefully get a little better as the BA.2.12.1 wave passes but that could get “a little bit worse” as BA.4 and BA.5 account for more cases. “We’re going to be seeing a lot of ongoing acute COVID likely into the summer,” he said, “and there may even be a resurgence in the fall and winter.”
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He also cautioned, “We don’t know what comes after BA.4 or 5. I think if there’s nothing from left field, we’ll have a reprieve. But I reserve the right to modify that forecast if we have BA.6 that we’re dealing with.”
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Was he trying to win a gibberish contest?
Hey CDC ——— DROP DEAD !!!!
The issue has never been whether or not there will be variants or subvariants, or even how fast they will spread. We already know that respiratory viruses mutate.
The issue is and has always been how SERIOUS on average the infections are. Are they going to overwhelm our hospitals?
What percentage of those who are infected with these variants or subvariants will die?
*THAT* is the most important question.
What about the double secret Delta House variant?
Doesn't prove anything, like I said. Just and observation.
CDC: Center for Deceptive COVIDporn
No one believes you clowns anymore. Go away and die of COVID, if karma has anything to do with it.
Its an election year! What more could you ask for?
Welcome to the world of CoronaVirus-19, which endlessly mutates and will be with us for at least another 100,000 years.
A weaponized cold virus crafted in a laboratory in China and unleashed upon the world. We’ll just have to endure it and move on. But now we know who the enemies are.
Not one mention of symptoms provided in the article, for these new sub variants. They obviously want you to guess.
Well the mid-term elections are coming up, you know.
What percentage of those who are infected with these variants or subvariants will die?
*THAT* is the most important question.
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It’s really not. The correct question is how many will die? Period. Full stop. If you have 20% death out of 100 infected, that’s 20 dead. If you have 0.1% dead out of 330 million infected, that’s 330,000 dead.
Death count, not rate, is all that matters.
I think the symptoms now are slight fever, sniffles and a cough.
Its basically a summer cold.
Variants are just slower in spreading than the increase at the CDC budget with each new one.
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How,the heck do they know,how many cases of each variant there are? Every test I’ve had they couldn’t tell me what variant I had, and I’m sure the vast majority,of tests aren’t tested for any kind of variant?
Media and politicians have used variants for fearmongering, exploiting the general public's lack of understanding of molecular biology and virology.
It's been quite extreme. This article is trying to do the same thing.
Btw, I followed the variants from the very start at Nextstrain.
You'd probably like this article promoting Fred Hutchinson.
I got it about two weeks ago. Not fun, but no worse than other bouts of the flu over the past 55 years.
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