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This New ‘Ninja’ COVID Variant Is the Most Dangerous One Yet
Daily Beast via Yahoo ^ | 7/08/22 | David Axe

Posted on 07/08/2022 3:59:49 PM PDT by Libloather

The latest subvariant of the novel coronavirus to become dominant in Europe, the United States, and other places is also, in many ways, the worst so far.

The BA.5 subvariant of the basic Omicron variant appears to be more contagious than any previous form of the virus. It’s apparently better at dodging our antibodies, too - meaning it might be more likely to cause breakthrough and repeat infections.

Vaccines and boosters are still the best defense. There are even Omicron-specific booster jabs in development that, in coming months, could make the best vaccines more effective against BA.5 and its genetic cousins.

Still, BA.5’s ongoing romp across half the planet is a strong reminder that the COVID pandemic isn’t over. “We’re not done yet, by any stretch,” Eric Topol, founder and director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute in California, wrote on his Substack.

High levels of at least partial immunity from vaccines and past infection continue to prevent the worst outcomes—mass hospitalization and death. But globally, raw case numbers are surging, with serious implications for potentially millions of people who face a growing risk of long-term illness.

How COVID Could Screw You Worse With Each Reinfection

Equally worrying, the latest wave of infections is giving the coronavirus the time and space it needs to mutate into even more dangerous variants and subvariants. “The development of variants now is a freight train,” Irwin Redlener, the founding director of Columbia University’s National Center for Disaster Preparedness, told The Daily Beast.

In other words, unstoppable.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Health/Medicine; Science
KEYWORDS: ba5; chinavirus; covid; covid1984; dailybeastwith2backs; dangerous; davidaxe; fakenews; moreclotshots; moredeathjabs; newspuppetdavidaxe; ninja; variant
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To: redshawk

So stay home. If you must go out, wear a mask if you want but more importantly wash/sanitize your hands frequently and don’t touch door knobs or other common areas without using hand sanitizer afterwards. Take vitamins like C, D, B complex & K, and supplements like zinc, quercetin, turmeric & nigella sativa. Get ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine if you can. If you get covid anyway, like I did, then it’s truly up to God if you live or die. Living in fear and isolation isn’t the answer, and neither is the vaccine.


21 posted on 07/08/2022 4:23:40 PM PDT by Prince of Space (Let’s Go, Brandon! )
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To: BenLurkin

There was never a surge. The hospitals were empty. Nurses making dancing videos out of boredom. The whole thing was a fraud.


22 posted on 07/08/2022 4:23:42 PM PDT by roving (Blue Lives Matter More Than Children)
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To: EvilCapitalist

I am waiting for the ‘FJB’ variant. It will be the death knell to all present and future variants because just like it’s name sake it just can’t help S#!TING and screwing up it’s own house!


23 posted on 07/08/2022 4:24:55 PM PDT by Kartographer (“We Mutually Pledge To Each Other Our Lives, Our Fortunes And Our Sacred Honor”)
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To: Libloather

Daily Beast and Yahoo?

Bwahahahahahahahahahahah!


24 posted on 07/08/2022 4:25:50 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Libloather

Of course.


25 posted on 07/08/2022 4:26:10 PM PDT by Old Yeller (A nation of sheep, produces a government of wolves.l)
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To: Libloather

Equally worrying, the latest wave of infections is giving the coronavirus the time and space it needs to mutate into even more dangerous variants and subvariants. “The development of variants now is a freight train,” Irwin Redlener, the founding director of Columbia University’s National Center for Disaster Preparedness, told The Daily Beast.

Funny. This was the very problem Dr. Geert Vanden Bossche predicted. That mass indiscriminate vaccination during the pandemic would drive the spread of mutations.


26 posted on 07/08/2022 4:26:39 PM PDT by Flick Lives
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To: Libloather

Vaccines and boosters are still the best defense
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Still, BA.5’s ongoing romp across half the planet is a strong reminder that the COVID pandemic isn’t over. “We’re not done yet, by any stretch
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Contradictory Bull Crap.


27 posted on 07/08/2022 4:28:14 PM PDT by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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To: redshawk

Did you take anything for it (vitamins, supplements, etc)? Or just ride it out?


28 posted on 07/08/2022 4:28:21 PM PDT by ConjunctionJunction (Vim vi repellere licet)
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To: Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; ...

....SHIVER!!!!

:)


29 posted on 07/08/2022 4:29:12 PM PDT by bitt ( <img src=' 'width=50%> )
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To: Libloather

🤞😳💉💊🚫 NOT lining up for innoculations. No antidote for CONvid vaxxes.


30 posted on 07/08/2022 4:30:08 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: bitt

Getting close to mid terms. Eh?


31 posted on 07/08/2022 4:30:29 PM PDT by thinden (buckle up.....)
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Let me know when the science ninja variant hits.


32 posted on 07/08/2022 4:36:03 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Libloather

Yeah, okay.


33 posted on 07/08/2022 4:40:32 PM PDT by Not A Snowbird (I do not recognize Biden’s authority. )
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To: Libloather

Beastiality. Lucifer’s lovin it.

Nebuchadnezzar


34 posted on 07/08/2022 4:42:12 PM PDT by Varsity Flight ( "War by the prophesies set before you." I Timothy 1:18)
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To: Flick Lives

Actually, didn’t Biden predict it?


35 posted on 07/08/2022 4:42:44 PM PDT by Celerity
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To: Libloather

36 posted on 07/08/2022 4:45:01 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Contempt for pre-born human life breeds contempt for post-born human life.)
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To: Libloather
Personally, I think this is definitively wrong. What made Covid dangerous in the first place is that it was engineered to bind to a fairly ubiquitous receptor that it never targeted before. So the repertoire of cells it could bind to, and thus the repertoire of organs and tissues it could infect broadened considerably.

Now, because the vaccines target the engineered spike protein, in order to escape the vaccine-induced antibodies those forms of Covid that have mutated the spike protein substantially are going to be the ones that escape immune surveillance and thus the ones that will survive and propagate at higher rates. These mutations make the virus more infectious and allow it to infect vaccinated people, but at the same time these mutations lead to a reduced repertoire of different cell types they can bind to, and thus reduces the range of tissues and organs that the virus can infect.

This is fundamental virology. It doesn't always work this way, but my bet is on this being the case.

37 posted on 07/08/2022 4:46:54 PM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: redshawk

Is your vitamin d level between 60-80? If not, yes, you could die from covid. And if your doc is not checking your D level, he’s worthless.


38 posted on 07/08/2022 4:48:38 PM PDT by goodnesswins (....pervert Biden & O Cabal are destroying America, as planned. )
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To: Libloather

Fool me once...


39 posted on 07/08/2022 4:51:07 PM PDT by OrangeHoof (No food in the stores; fuel prices too high? Thank a liberal.)
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To: Libloather

What Bunk, more boosters will make it even worse. It’s always going to be another variant , there are now more than 2000 if not 4000, take your pick, it isn’t ever going away.


40 posted on 07/08/2022 4:53:34 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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