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COVID-19: New EG.5 Variant Identified Amid Rise In Cases, Hospitalizations
The Daily Voice ^ | 08/10/2023 | Joe Lombardi

Posted on 08/10/2023 9:32:58 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

A new COVID-19 variant has been identified amid a rise in hospitalizations and cases being reported by the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC).

COVID hospital admissions during the week ending Saturday, July 29, increased 12.5 percent over the previous week, according to CDC data.

In addition, visits to the emergency room were up more than 21.8 percent, and the positive test percentage increased 1.3 percent.

One of the causes of the trend could be excessive heat, which is sending people indoors into air-conditioned settings.

The US has seen increases in COVID each of the last three summers, and this year's increases in cases and hospitalizations are notably lower than the surge in the summer of 2022 fueled by the BA.5 Omicron subvariant.

A new variant, EG.5, is causing about 17 percent of cases nationwide, with about 16 percent of cases linked to the XBB.1.16 strain known as Arcturus, according to CDC estimates.

Arcturus was first identified in March of this year.

On Wednesday, Aug. 9, the World Health Organization warned that EG.5, a descendent of the Omicron strain and the XBB subvariant. could lead to an increase in infections.

"Due to its growth advantage and immune escape characteristics, EG.5 may cause a rise in case incidence and become dominant in some countries or even globally," the WHO said.

Despite the new uptick, hospitalizations for COVID cases are still at a historic low since the pandemic began in March 2020, a CDC graph shows.

Check back to Daily Voice for updates.


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: beafraid; covid; covid19; eg5; foreverpandemic; permanentlockdown; variant; virus
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To: SeekAndFind

Which secret lab did this one come from?


21 posted on 08/10/2023 11:29:14 PM PDT by ryderann
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To: umbagi

I don’t get out much, either.
But it’s not due to the COVID
scare, or the climate change
fiasco.
Thru the last COVID B.S., I never
wore a mask. Arrogant, no; defiant,
yes.


22 posted on 08/10/2023 11:54:13 PM PDT by Lean-Right (Eat More Moose)
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To: SeekAndFind

It’s creepy to see the ghouls trying to ‘harvest’ more with their “Covid tests’ which then lead to toxic Covid ‘protocols.’ These people are predators.


23 posted on 08/11/2023 12:27:29 AM PDT by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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To: BrexitBen

I had Covid twice (once in 2021, once in 2022). Zero medication of any type. 63 years old at 2nd bout.

Other than a serious fever for 24 hours (both cases)...controlled by aspirin, and a 5-star cough at the conclusion for both (four days)...it wasn’t much to worry about. I will admit that staying hydrated is a big deal.


24 posted on 08/11/2023 12:38:20 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: SeekAndFind

Is it affecting people who had the jab or without the jab. Thats what i want to know. They wont tell you that.


25 posted on 08/11/2023 12:45:21 AM PDT by spincaster
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat

Mine expires in the fall of 2024 so I’m good for another yr at least.


26 posted on 08/11/2023 2:36:38 AM PDT by Prince of Space (Trump 2024!)
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat

Could you message me a link?


27 posted on 08/11/2023 3:00:09 AM PDT by mikelets456
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To: SeekAndFind

Oh boy! I was missing some kabuki theater!

Mask Up and Shut Up! Stay Home and fear! We Can Do This!

Blah blah blah freakin blah.

Not again...


28 posted on 08/11/2023 3:26:30 AM PDT by Adder (ALL Democrats are the enemy. NO QUARTER!!)
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To: DMD13

India sourcing is legit. It is called Iverjohn. Not cheap howver. I remember paying around 100 US.


29 posted on 08/11/2023 3:26:44 AM PDT by reviled downesdad (Some of the lost will never believe the Truth and will hate you for it.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Pfizer just got done making their new batches. They need the illness to sell the poison jabs.


30 posted on 08/11/2023 3:26:48 AM PDT by dforest
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To: BrexitBen

Take ivermectin within the first 24 hours.

It works miraculously.

Because it’s readily available over the counter in blue cities?


31 posted on 08/11/2023 3:42:41 AM PDT by TiGuy22
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To: BrexitBen

Take ivermectin within the first 24 hours along with zinc and a teaspoon of sour cream.

It works miraculously.

I do this every time a vac sheder gives me the latest ADE’d varient and my nose starts running like a fire hose .

Within 30 minutes it kicks butt.

( mmm mmm apples /-)


32 posted on 08/11/2023 4:07:51 AM PDT by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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To: SeekAndFind

Don’t be fat. You had 4 years notice.(really a lifetime)


33 posted on 08/11/2023 4:12:15 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: dfwgator
"RUN TO THE HILLS! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!"

Iron Maiden, EXCELLENT!

34 posted on 08/11/2023 4:15:10 AM PDT by MikeSteelBe (The South will be in the right in the next war of Northern aggression.)
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To: SeekAndFind

It’s the mighty CDC’s EG.5!!!!
It’s everywhere, it’s everywhere!!!!
Run for your lives.....RUN!!!!!


35 posted on 08/11/2023 4:26:42 AM PDT by lgjhn23 ("On the 8th day, Satan created the progressive liberal to destroy all the good that God created...")
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To: Enlightened1
“Don’t be gullible chumps”

Unfortunately, this site was overrun with gullible chumps during the “COVID” “pandemic”. Some may have learned a lesson, but plenty more did not and never will.

36 posted on 08/11/2023 4:39:46 AM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell>)
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To: SeekAndFind

Gee. Just in time to really kick up as the official next pandemic around a year from now. Best to do mail in ballots and drop boxes again.


37 posted on 08/11/2023 4:40:53 AM PDT by glimmerman70
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To: SeekAndFind

Pure BS for the covid cultist.


38 posted on 08/11/2023 4:42:49 AM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: BrexitBen
Take ivermectin within the first 24 hours.

I've read they now understand how Ivermectin helps. Ivermectin disrupts the process that causes micro-clots forming in the blood of the infected. COVID is a disease of the blood.

39 posted on 08/11/2023 4:49:25 AM PDT by IamConservative (I was nervous like the third chimp in line for the Ark after the rain started.)
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To: anyone

Some of you dont understand mutations.

COVID 19 may have been relatively non fatal before and completely overblown as a threat. That doesn’t mean it will remain that way….doesn’t mean it won’t either. Recall the 1918 flu was new and a result of mutations. Killed 100s of millions of young heathy adults (unlike COVID which basically mostly only killed weak/ill).

Why you should not Fork around with genetic engineering of pathogens and create new organisms. IMO.


40 posted on 08/11/2023 4:59:07 AM PDT by Phoenix8
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