Posted on 07/12/2022 1:10:13 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The Omicron BA.5 subvariant has become the dominant coronavirus strain in the US, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
While this variant is fast-spreading, it appears to be less severe than early versions of the virus, and its symptoms are similar to those of other Omicron subvariants, experts say.
Symptoms of Omicron infections are typically coldlike, including a sore throat, sneezing, and a runny nose. Symptoms like fever, chills, and cough are still seen sometimes in Omicron cases but not as frequently as in earlier variants of the virus.
Like past variants in the Omicron lineage, BA.5 seems to primarily affect the upper respiratory tract, according to experts at the University of Colorado. Symptoms like a sore throat and nasal congestion indicate that the virus has infiltrated the nose and airways, but Omicron is less likely to affect the lungs compared with past variants, Drs. Thomas Campbell and Steven Johnson, two infectious-disease experts, said in a news release.
Loss of smell, which was a signature symptom in early COVID-19 cases, is rarely seen with the Omicron subvariants — likely because that symptom indicates the virus has affected the nervous system.
The BA.5 subvariant accounts for about 53% of COVID-19 infections in the country, according to the CDC.
As symptoms remain similar to recent Omicron subvariants, severity seems to be decreasing with BA.5, Dr. David Dowdy, an epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, told Insider. Getting infected with the coronavirus or exposed to it via vaccine teaches the immune system to respond to the threat without overwhelming the body, he added.
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“Business Insider is fake news”
Here are a bunch of articles on pork packed into COVID relief.
https://www.bing.com/search?q=covid+relief+bill+pork+list&form=ANNTH1&refig=644263e8037d4742833e89effef60353&sp=1&qs=UT&pq=covid+relief+bill+pork&sk=PRES1&sc=10-22&cvid=644263e8037d4742833e89effef60353
NYT says we’re “losing the fight against monkeypox”, so that is what we must fear.
- https://web.archive.org/web/20220708182244/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/08/health/monkeypox-vaccine-treatment.html
3 deaths in the US
Help us, oh wise FRvaxxer FRdoctors!!! Which virus should the unvaxxed fear?
I got a test that takes 2 to 3 days to reveal the results.
was it made in china?...
That’s probably what my daughter and my mother in Law have. My son probably has it too. He’s at a training school for a new job and has tested negative a few times.
Monkeypox symptoms are far worse. With the mysterious abrasions on the knees and bad breath and all
Had the CCP Virus last month for the first time, fever, chills, cough and sore throat. Doctors said to take over the counter cold medicine for treatment. Did Nyquil treatment and Halls cough drops, two weeks later symptoms gone except for remaining exhaustion.
To me over 60, this was nothing more than a bad cold.
“And the Italians will do just fine - Branch Covidians be damned.”
You mean the 157 Italians did not die today of Covid will do just fine and it’s all about the US midterms? Milan has how many US House seats, I have forgotten.
BTW, Italian daily Covid deaths 20 days ago were about 40. Those corpses did just fine as well.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/italy/
For extra credit have a look at the Taiwan death spike.
These places are serving as reservoirs. US Covid death counts are ticking upwards. Not a spike yet, but in terms of seasons, we’re still early. These reservoirs will have plenty of virus for when we’re ready to see our seasonal death count spike.
Not so, Italy. They were super vaxed worthlessly and had lots of infected with “immunity” that has obviously also become worthless. 154 dead yesterday. 40 two weeks ago.
COVID is going the way of pneumonia. In other words, it will always be with us.
Get over it!!!
It will be with us . . . ADDITIONALLY. It adds to all those other causes of death. It has taken out 25% more 65+ ppl in the US last year than in a normal year.
And the piece de resistance . . . it has chopped 1.8 yrs life expectancy off of society the past 2 years. The young will just have to accept shorter lives, and if that 1.8 grows, shorter and shorter.
Just get over it. No big deal.
Hundreds of people my Ahz.🙄
Yeah we had it awhile back too. Wasn’t much. I’ve had worse colds. Found out someone we knew had it so I did a home test just out of curiosity.
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