As long as we are 'recombinant', lets call this like it is:
The 'ba ba ba' variant.
Posted on 12/30/2022 10:37:19 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Amid warnings from health officials and the White House over a new COVID-19 surge coming this winter, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed a new variant is now dominant in parts of the Northeast.
The Omicron subvariant XBB accounts for about 52.6% of all cases in New England between Dec. 18 and Dec. 24, according to the CDC. XBB constitutes 18.3% of cases across the country.
“It looks like it’s just going to blow the other (variants) away in a very short period,” Jeremy Luban, professor of molecular medicine, biochemistry, and molecular biotechnology at UMass Chan Medical School, said to The Boston Globe. “The most likely explanation is that it’s more transmissible.”
Luban added that there’s no evidence that the current lineup of variants, including XBB, are escaping the protections offered by being vaccinated. XBB’s role in rising hospitalizations has not been confirmed, he said.
XBB is known as a recombinant of the BA.2.10.1 and BA.2.75 Omicron subvariants, according to the World Health Organization in October. The WHO also said while there have been no severe infections as a result of XBB cases, early evidence suggested it poses a higher infection risk when compared with other Omicron subvariants.
3 “XBB, it got our attention and then was prioritized, even though it was small numbers, because it had quite a number of substitutions different from the currently circulating viruses in the [receptor-binding domain], which meant that it might be an escape variant,” Derek Smith, director of the Center for Pathogen Evolution at the University of Cambridge, told CBS News in October.
The CDC said in October that XBB’s immune escape sufficiency will depend on “the regional immune landscape as affected by the size and timing of previous Omicron waves, as well as the COVID-19 vaccination coverage.”
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There must be bodies everywhere.
Be afwaid. Be vewy vewy afwaid!
I’ll call your XBB and raise you ZZ-TOP! /s
The CDC “confirmed” it?
Whew? For a moment there, I thought that the news was true.
At this point I leave the house and think the masked are morons. As I sit in the public library as the kids search for books? Morons abound.
I’m surprised that the press didn’t try to claim that Dusty Hill (RIP 07/28/2021) died of the COVID-1984.
I’ve never seen an explanation for how COVID variants were moving from Alpha to Beta to Gamma to Delta up to Omicron.
And then stopped at Omicron. Now we just have variants of Omicron. We’re up to Variant XBB of Omicron. Omicron itself is now referred to as B.1.1.529. But the current surge is XBB. The current variant of the Omicron variant.
It’s like they make this stuff up as they go along. I don’t have an special issue with the volatility. I have an issue with the fact that the naming standard is just all over the place.
As long as we are 'recombinant', lets call this like it is:
The 'ba ba ba' variant.
How about the “WFC” folks? 😁👍. 🔬😱😵🚫😷💉🐎💩🖕. Remaining NON GMO
The left must be so excited. Gawd, what a bunch of human debris.
Yea, whatever
Nothing stopped at Omicron.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/variants/variant-classifications.html
There are branches off of various preceding viral particles that were way past Omicron. They did not have the necessary spike protein changes to qualify as a new variant.
Gottleib laid all this out the other day. Variants, hyper dangerous variants, come about not so much from sheer population infected as from the random person who “can’t shake” the virus. It has too long for its statistics to generate changes that punch through defenses. That person may go home and infect everyone around him with the new super duper variant.
The young folks had their lives impacted by the pandemic and they are upset . . . about the WRONG THING. The Chinese have all the control they need of society. They don’t have to manufacture a viral reason to be strict. They can be strict with the wave of a hand and shoot anyone that doesn’t like it.
The impact on lives is from the virus. Not anyone’s decisions. The virus doesn’t give a damn about decisions, and it clearly doesn’t give a damn about vax or mask. It has defeated those.
BTW the right thing to be upset about is how the virus is destroying life expectancy. The young are going to die earlier, and it doesn’t matter what they think about that.
So scary you need to test to know you have it
“I’ll call your XBB and raise you ZZ-TOP! /s”
I think everyone overbid... I am going with the ABBA variant.
(obscure Price is Right reference)
The XTF SBF variant seems quite potent. Effected all of DC. Especially democrats.
So you need a vax booster that works against the original strain. Trust the science.
According to CDC data, y'all, as they push the LGBT-STD program into primary schools. Y'all have a good day....
Oh the humanity! Dead people everywhere. Where I live they are burning bodies in pits in the Little League field.
/s
“BTW the right thing to be upset about is how the virus is destroying life expectancy.”
Please explain with references.
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