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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

Does anyone really give a sh#t at this point other than the cowardly, low IQ morons who are still running around masked?


41 posted on 08/11/2023 5:14:51 AM PDT by Clarancebeaks
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To: SeekAndFind
Rinsed. Repeated. Rinsed again. Repeated again.
42 posted on 08/11/2023 5:22:47 AM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: SeekAndFind

Here we F-ing go again!


43 posted on 08/11/2023 5:31:47 AM PDT by Agatsu77
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To: KittyKares

Before retiring, I worked in Healthcare and was forced to wear one for 8 hours straight. Never again.


44 posted on 08/11/2023 5:37:31 AM PDT by AmericanMermaid
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To: cpdiii

‘It will not work this time.’

yes it will; people have gotten abysmally stupid about this topic...


45 posted on 08/11/2023 6:49:01 AM PDT by IrishBrigade
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To: IrishBrigade

“yes it will; people have gotten abysmally stupid about this topic...”

Because fear-mongering works with really stupid people. And alas, America has many, many really stupid people. That vote.


46 posted on 08/11/2023 6:50:46 AM PDT by Danie_2023
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To: glimmerman70

RE: Best to do mail in ballots and drop boxes again.

Unfortunately, this has already become the norm with or without the Pandemic ☹️😞


47 posted on 08/11/2023 6:56:14 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Local media already reporting an ‘uptick’ in cases...people really are gullible.


48 posted on 08/11/2023 6:57:02 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...siameserescue.org)
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To: SeekAndFind

Whatever


49 posted on 08/11/2023 7:05:49 AM PDT by goodnesswins ( We pretend to vote and they pretend to count the votes.)
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To: ransomnote
It’s creepy to see the ghouls trying to ‘harvest’ more with their “Covid tests’ which then lead to toxic Covid ‘protocols.’

Am I the only person who wonders why we are using PCR tests for CoVID, instead of testing for the 'spike' in our blood?

50 posted on 08/11/2023 7:50:07 AM PDT by RideForever (Damn, another dangling par .....)
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To: SeekAndFind; Jane Long; ransomnote; SecAmndmt; Jan_Sobieski; bagster; Roman_War_Criminal; ...

Gotta try to keep the fear porn going.......


51 posted on 08/11/2023 8:22:49 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.)
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To: SeekAndFind; metmom; ExTexasRedhead; 2ndreconmarine; Fitzcarraldo; Covenantor; Mother Abigail; ...
Infectious Disease ping - A summer surge of the Covid variant, EG.5, has been identified by the CDC as contributing to increased number of hospitalizations this week
Conjecture is that the heat this summer, and increased use of air conditioning in confined places have contributed to this summer surge

(From the article): " 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."

52 posted on 08/11/2023 8:41:25 AM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt
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To: roving

I hear Remdesivir is the one all cure for this thing called Covid. So says FR’s “fact checkers”.

(Run death is near) Remdesivir


53 posted on 08/11/2023 8:44:44 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Jesus + Something = Nothing ; Jesus + Nothing = Everything )
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

” Arcturus was first identified in March of this year.”
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Correction:

” Arcturus was first let loose by the CDC in March of this year.”


54 posted on 08/11/2023 8:45:23 AM PDT by little jeremiah (Never worry about anything. Worry never solved any problem or moved any stone.)
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To: metmom

Gotta continue to justify all the plandemic elections protocols to fulfill their 2024 aspirations.

(I wish that was sarcasm)


55 posted on 08/11/2023 9:02:06 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: SeekAndFind

Has it infected anyone not jabbed? I know a couple that is stupidly all vaxed up, and were out all week with “covid”. Third time for them, I think.

Meanwhile, unvaxed me has never had it.


56 posted on 08/11/2023 9:39:49 AM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: logi_cal869

Me, too.


57 posted on 08/11/2023 10:46:56 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.)
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To: AmericanMermaid

Before retiring, I worked in Healthcare and was forced to wear one for 8 hours straight. Never again.
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That must have been awful. I could barely wear it just the short time I was in a doctor’s office.


58 posted on 08/11/2023 9:10:57 PM PDT by KittyKares
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