CDC says Fast-spreading COVID-19 subvariants BA.4 and BA.5 now account for more than 7 percent of New England cases

MSN ^ | 06/13/2022 | Martin Finucane

[SeekAndFind]

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.”

[ifinnegan]

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?

[OHPatriot]

Hey CDC ——— DROP DEAD !!!!

[SeekAndFind]

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.

[HombreSecreto]

What about the double secret Delta House variant?

[Sirius Lee]

Anecdotal, but the only people I know who have gotten sick (i.e. a noticeable fever or cough) from the WuFlu so far in 2022 are the double and triple injected. None of my friends or family who eschewed the shots have had so much as a cold.

Doesn't prove anything, like I said. Just and observation.

[Da Coyote]

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.

[Nifty]

Its an election year! What more could you ask for?

[Yo-Yo]

CDC says Fast-spreading COVID-19 subvariants BA.4 and BA.5 now account for more than 7 percent of New England cases

[Deo volente]

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.

[mass55th]

Not one mention of symptoms provided in the article, for these new sub variants. They obviously want you to guess.

[rlmorel]

COVID ANNOUNCER: Well, the American public in the field has fought long and hard to get back into this game, so with upcoming mid-term elections on deck in the next couple of innings, it is important for the Anti-Americans at bat right now to hold and extend their lead. Admittedly, it isn't looking good for them, as their performance has been extremely poor, and a shellacking looks to be in store for them. The Anti-American's CDC is at the plate right now with things heating up on the field, and [CRACK] THERE IT IS! A LINE DRIVE TO LEFT FIELD, JUST LIKE TONY CDC SAID HE WOULD! THE FANS IN THE STANDS ARE FUMBLING FOR THEIR MASKS, AND THE PLAYERS IN THE FIELD ARE BEING FORCED TO RUN TO THE SIDELINES FOR MORE VACCINE! TONY CDC IS ROUNDING THE PRIMARIES, HEADING FULL SPEED FOR THE GENERAL ELECTION! IT IS PANDEMONIUM! THE UMPIRES AREN'T EVEN WATCHING THE FIELD, AND ARE TALKING ABOUT EVACUATING THE STANDS AND FORCING THE GAME TO BE PLAYED ON COMPUTERS FROM THE PLAYER'S HOMES!

[Obadiah]

Well the mid-term elections are coming up, you know.

[Owen]

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.

[woodbutcher1963]

I think the symptoms now are slight fever, sniffles and a cough.
Its basically a summer cold.

[blackdog]

Variants are just slower in spreading than the increase at the CDC budget with each new one.

[GrumpyOldGuy]

😴

[Bob434]

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?

[ifinnegan]

"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."

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.

presenting a genetic jigsaw puzzle

[blackdog]

I got it about two weeks ago. Not fun, but no worse than other bouts of the flu over the past 55 years.