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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Sounds very sciencie
All hail the all powerful virus! And yet, the mortality rate after three years stands at 0.085 percent. More precisely, as of today....
( 6,686,987 global deaths over three years / 7,942,361,455 global population ) x 100 = 0.08419 mortality rate. Annualized, far less than this "less than one-tenth of one percent figure."
Sources: https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/ and https://www.census.gov/popclock/
Conclusion . . . LE at birth is now 76.4. About 2.1 years has been lost since 2019, and that’s adjusting for Fentanyl deaths. A full 60% of the 2 years loss is Covid.
There were fewer Covid deaths in 2022 than in 2021, but Covid remains an Excess Death generator, because the deaths it causes did not exist in 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019. This means there will likely be a few weeks or months of continued LE loss for 2022.
It would be far, far worse if Covid were killing the young rather than the old. Societal life-years lost would increase.
But, regardless, 76.4. And falling. That is what the young should think about. All those 401K contributions, sacrificing now to save up for later — later may not arrive.
It is for this reason the young should be all in on the strictest of mitigation measures. Rather than demanding none.
They have to keep Omicron in the name or people will wonder why they’re supposed to take a “vax” booster that protects against Omicron. Which blew through two years ago.
Continuing with your incorrect math.
What exactly does your math say about 76.4 years Life Expectancy?
ROFLMAO! You are stuffed full of sh!t like a Christmas turkey. You used to annoy me but I have to admit, I look forward to your “viral” posts now for their comic relief value. Keep ‘em coming Owen! LOL!
That is extremely speculative to say the virus is the cause.
Drug abuse, alcohol abuse, and suicide are all up.
Mental health problems are also up.
Everywhere I go, I see disgustingly fat people.
Coronaviruses and flu viruses mutate and circle the globe forever.
Nothing will stop them, ever.
I care far more about the quality of my life than quantity.
I follow what I think are the best recommendations for health, and I “worry” about nothing.
Worrying has been shown to have physical manifestations.
I would argue that sitting inside and worrying is more dangerous than getting outside, exercising, and enjoying life.
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Have No Fear, friend!
The scientists are working tirelessly - 24/7!
Very soon they will SOLVE this tricky riddle -
and will invent a variant that will reliably kill us all.
Then all of this worrying will be over - once and for all!
It’s flu season. Not buying the covid fear porn.
Danger UXB.
They were running out of letters of the Greek alphabet..
Cite the error and cite your sources.
As to a life expectancy, it is a muti-varilable problem, with Covid and likely Covid mRNA injections being two of myriad inputs to the aggregate stats.
But deal with the second later. I want very much for you to explain my "incorrect math."
Please show your work.
Don’t forget excess deaths from treatable/curable cancers that were not caught in time because lockdown. There are a lot of those already, and many more to come.
The FJB variant is far deadlier.
Some of the worst variants come from mutations due to the vaccine. But I also would not be surprised if gain of research labs are still releasing things on the public.
Don’t omit the effects of the lockdowns themselves... increased stress, job loss, suicide, etc..
Here we go again:
You are both correct. The attempt to state life expectancy decreased due to Covid alone is extremely speculative and without the slightest proof.
I will keep living, sans “vaccine”, my life as I see fit.
This talk is with respect to climate change, but the same principles apply.
If either of you is looking for something to watch: (Michael Crichton)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOu8akBowTg
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