Posted on 01/02/2023 8:54:19 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
A new COVID variant could be the one to "watch out for" this year after a surge in cases in the US, an expert has said.
Tim Spector, professor of genetic epidemiology at King's College London, highlighted an Omicron variant after a scientist said cases had more than doubled in America in a week.
More than 40% of COVID cases in the US are now caused by the XBB.1.5 variant, according to data from the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) from Friday.
In the northeast of the US, about 75% of confirmed cases are reported to be XBB.1.5.
US scientist Eric Topol said it is now out-competing all variants and "we've not seen such rapid growth of a variant" since the original Omicron emerged a year ago.
In response, Prof Spector, the founder of the COVID Zoe app, tweeted: "XBB could be the new variant to watch out for .. in 2023."
XBB.1.5 is a mutated version of Omicron XBB, which was first detected in India in August.
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How exactly do you “watch out” for a virus ?
I hope the new variant kills every Biden voter.
There is no sarcasm in that statement
Does this expert’s name begin with an F?
Bullsh!t propaganda to panic the herd for culling.
for the original covid and the first several variants, the death rate was negligible-
“The median IFR was 0.0003% at 0–19 years, 0.002% at 20–29 years, 0.011% at 30–39 years, 0.035% at 40–49 years, 0.123% at 50–59 years, and 0.506% at 60–69 years”
And for this our ‘leaders’ shut a nation down and treated people like they were all carriers of smallpox or ebola, when all they had was a virus that had a near 100% survival rate for most people
I posted a story on this the other day. It went over like a lead balloon and someone named a band after it...
Never forget they wanted us in jail. No sympathy. Pure bloods have little to worry about. Covidiots have a form of AIDS.
You wear a porous face mask everywhere you go so that people will stay far away from you.
I wish these people would all go straight to hell.
Isn’t King’s College the one to be on the outlook for?
Weaker and more infectious... so it gets to where everybody has it and no one knows it..
[[How exactly do you “watch out” for a virus ?]]
You lock all your doors, open the curtains just a crack so you can see anyone coming and take appropriate action-, don a mask, gloves, another mask “just in-case”, have hand sanitizer at the ready, cans and cans of lysol and bleach- call in sick to the job for a couple of years, and never ever venture outside- and keep your kids and family locked down too-
According to the left-
After all, This is the sniffles we’re talking about here- must take it seriously /s
EXPERTS WARN! ...........no further information has been given
Sky is Comcast
FU, Comcast
Wolf!
Neat, just how does one “watch out for” a new virus?
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