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Will the New COVID-19 Vaccine Work Against the BA.2.86 Variant?
MSN ^ | 8/25 | Alice Park

Posted on 08/26/2023 3:15:25 PM PDT by nickcarraway

COVID-19 isn’t quite done with the world yet. Small surges of cases in the U.S., as well as upticks in COVID-19 hospitalizations over the summer, and new variants that weren’t around even three months ago, remind us that SARS-CoV-2 is still a health threat for the coming fall and winter.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is expected to make a decision about which strain to target in the updated vaccine, which the agency says will be available in mid-to-late September. The FDA will be considering recommendations by the panel of independent vaccine experts it convened in June, which reviewed the latest data on an updated COVID-19 vaccine and which strains would likely be circulating in the fall and winter. The 21-member panel voted unanimously to update the next COVID-19 vaccine, and recommended moving from the current bivalent shot that targets two Omicron variants, BA.4 and BA.5, to now include a single XBB strain. The agency is still deciding which specific XBB strain the new vaccine will incorporate, although at the time, the dominant strain causing new infections was XBB.1.5.

As of the middle of August, however, new variants have emerged, and XBB.1.5 now accounts for around 5% to 6% of infections in the U.S. Omicron variant EG.5, a new evolution of XBB, is now the dominant variant, contributing to 20% of COVID-19 infections in the country, followed by Omicron FL.1.5.1, which accounts for 13% of cases. And two cases of BA.2.86, a descendant of XBB.1.5, have recently been reported in the U.S. It contains dozens of mutations that researchers are studying to understand whether the variant could potentially spread faster or cause more severe disease.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Health/Medicine; Science
KEYWORDS: biden; chinavirusvaccine; chinavirusvariant; covid19; covid23; electionvariant; fauchi; fearfearfear; letsgobrandon; rona; wuhanvirus
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To: nickcarraway
According to Barbara Tuchman in her book about the 14th century, A Distant Mirror, the Black Death lasted in a town for a summer, a winter and the next summer. Then it was gone. Whatever the post-modern medical leadership is doing is having inferior results to the longevity of the Black Death.
21 posted on 08/26/2023 3:58:54 PM PDT by magooey (The Mandate of Heaven resides in the hearts of men.)
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To: nickcarraway

I’m sure that Ivermectin protocols taken as a preventative or immediately after infection will take care of it.


22 posted on 08/26/2023 4:03:16 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Biden not only suffers fools and criminals, he appoints them to positions of responsibility. )
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To: nickcarraway

Yes, it will effectively shorten your life like all the other Covid vaccines.


23 posted on 08/26/2023 4:09:45 PM PDT by JJBookman (Democrats = Party of vote for your own murder)
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To: IrishBrigade
it doesnt take much when they have you by the Monetary Gonads, one little squeeze and you go down like a sissy

In my case I ( and all my co-workers) was blackmailed into becoming a "Covid victim" by taking a test WITH NO SYMPTOMs, tested positive, forced to take two weeks off WITH NO SYMPTOMS, reported to the CDC as a "COVID VICTIM" .

I tried to refuse but boss said it would be 2 weeks off without pay and reported to Corporate and the boss said "believe me, you don't want to be on corporate's radar about this" (an International accredited product and material testing agency)

24 posted on 08/26/2023 4:17:58 PM PDT by KTM rider (Be Alert Stay Calm Think Clearly Act Decisively )
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To: spintreebob
YEP

the two party system is just a mind control game by the politicians to keep people divided and blaming each other instead of uniting and going after THEM.

25 posted on 08/26/2023 4:22:56 PM PDT by KTM rider (Be Alert Stay Calm Think Clearly Act Decisively )
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To: All

Why would it work this time since it has never worked before?


26 posted on 08/26/2023 4:29:30 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: skr
Still not getting a jab.

Nor will I cover my breathing holes with a piece of dirty laundry (which is what it becomes after about 20 minutes.)

27 posted on 08/26/2023 4:32:05 PM PDT by Allegra (Stop the Zeepers from Censoring FReepers)
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To: silverleaf
I can hardly wait for the "custom tailored to your DNA" Vaccine

imagine that, drop off a DNA sample and the magic Biotech lab will produce a special philosophers stone vax just for you ( the vax formula will depend on your social credit score)

28 posted on 08/26/2023 4:33:18 PM PDT by KTM rider (Be Alert Stay Calm Think Clearly Act Decisively )
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To: nickcarraway

Every bit as well as last year’s flu shot works on this year’s flu!


29 posted on 08/26/2023 4:35:36 PM PDT by null and void (It's 10 o'clock, does the president know where he is?)
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To: LegendHasIt
Why would it work this time since it has never worked before?

I don't know why you would think that , it did most of what they wanted, BioTech made trillion$ and a lot of old white people croaked

My brother in law swelled up and died of congestive heart failure within days of 2nd jab, no more social security for him

30 posted on 08/26/2023 4:44:20 PM PDT by KTM rider (Be Alert Stay Calm Think Clearly Act Decisively )
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To: KTM rider

Yeah,I thought of adding those caveats to my statement, but decided to go for simplicity.

Like I often have said: “Never make helathcare decisions based on the demands of people who want to reduce the population of the world by 95%.”


31 posted on 08/26/2023 4:47:49 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: nickcarraway

No quack-cine for me.


32 posted on 08/26/2023 4:53:01 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: nickcarraway

Will they work against the new ones? He’ll, they don’t work against the old ones...

No jab= better health.


33 posted on 08/26/2023 4:53:24 PM PDT by Adder (End fascism...defeat all Democrats.)
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To: magooey

The Black Death and other vanished pandemics show that when a virus actually mutates to become more virulent, it kills off its hosts…and thus itself. Viruses are smarter than that and actually mutate for self continuation and survival. Not by killing the host.

Yet they want the public to believe this covid agent is “ naturally” mutating to become more deadly.

Its not doing that unless some lab is tweaking it. Or its becoming more deadly because human immunity is being altered by the vaxx experiment, to be weaker or ineffective. Neither is “ natural” science,


34 posted on 08/26/2023 4:54:23 PM PDT by silverleaf (Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out” —David Horowitz)
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To: silverleaf
Viruses are smarter than that and actually mutate for self continuation and survival. Not by killing the host.

Makes sense. You won't hear it from the CDC or WHO though.

35 posted on 08/26/2023 4:55:55 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: nickcarraway

A: Probably be not. But get it and three or four boosters just in case.


36 posted on 08/26/2023 4:59:14 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants ( "It is easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled."- Mark Twain)
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To: silverleaf

My ex-DIL just got CoVID for the second time. She’s fully jabbed and boosted. She was so paranoid during 2020 that she used to wipe down her groceries with Clorox wipes when she got home from the store. She’s also a rabid liberal and hated Trump.


37 posted on 08/26/2023 5:01:24 PM PDT by Prince of Space (Trump 2024!)
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To: Da Coyote

The kooks in my town think traffic problems are cured by reducing the number of lanes, creating large bike lanes in the middle of the street, and prohibiting right turns at traffic lights.


38 posted on 08/26/2023 5:07:56 PM PDT by Luke21
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To: nickcarraway

As Spock would say:

NEGATIVE!

Live long and prosper.


39 posted on 08/26/2023 5:29:26 PM PDT by Deaf and Discerning
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To: Obadiah

Yeah, it’s called the Mail In strain.


40 posted on 08/26/2023 5:36:12 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore)
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