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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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1 posted on 08/26/2023 3:15:25 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

I heard the FDA say that mail-in ballots will cure this variant.


2 posted on 08/26/2023 3:18:52 PM PDT by Obadiah
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Still not getting a jab.


3 posted on 08/26/2023 3:22:16 PM PDT by skr (Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people. - Proverbs 14:34)
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Agree - a number of people I know dies after getting the jab.


4 posted on 08/26/2023 3:23:38 PM PDT by NeverTyranny
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No...


5 posted on 08/26/2023 3:24:25 PM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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“Agree - a number of people I know dies after getting the jab.”

Same here...


6 posted on 08/26/2023 3:25:00 PM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: nickcarraway

NO, yugely no.


7 posted on 08/26/2023 3:26:24 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: nickcarraway

Cold-23 Vax is right on time.


8 posted on 08/26/2023 3:28:22 PM PDT by bray (You can tell who the Commies fear.)
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To: nickcarraway

It will work as well as the original vaxxine. Those who like to play Russian Roulette with a Glock should take it.


9 posted on 08/26/2023 3:28:25 PM PDT by arthurus (. covfefe dud)
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‘I heard the FDA say that mail-in ballots will cure this variant.’

since mail in ballots of any real importance are more than a year away from being counted, unlikely they will have any effect on a current malady...

sarcasm being noted, the real question remains, why do we allow the powers that be to control us so easily...? why are we such pusillananimous little pipsqueaks...?


10 posted on 08/26/2023 3:29:10 PM PDT by IrishBrigade
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11 posted on 08/26/2023 3:30:39 PM PDT by C210N (We're at war: Make them have to cheat so much it becomes comical, then ridicule them into oblivion.)
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To: nickcarraway

New virus versions being released by the bio labs. And just to think many of those labs are now hidden in basements.


12 posted on 08/26/2023 3:31:22 PM PDT by Revel
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How predictable.

Lockdowns before the election.


13 posted on 08/26/2023 3:32:39 PM PDT by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
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It’s the BS 24/7 variant that should worry us.

But your answer according to Dr Peter McCullough …. is no.
The new booster won’t protect, could make things worse by mutating your immune system, and the cases he’s seeing and treating are mild like a head cold.
Just read up and stock up on prevention and early treatment protocols.


14 posted on 08/26/2023 3:33:16 PM PDT by silverleaf (Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out” —David Horowitz)
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Hell, NO!


15 posted on 08/26/2023 3:33:22 PM PDT by princess leah
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Fwiw
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4177886/posts


16 posted on 08/26/2023 3:35:05 PM PDT by silverleaf (Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out” —David Horowitz)
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To: nickcarraway

Having lived in the UK and driven in London, I can understand the need to “do something” about the traffic. However, we should always understand that there are good ideas, and ideas thought up by leftists. Those two types of ideas are lifetime enemies.


17 posted on 08/26/2023 3:37:27 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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bingo

the sole reason for this charade


18 posted on 08/26/2023 3:45:38 PM PDT by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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To: nickcarraway
first paragraph explains in detail right in our faces what a scam the whole deal is "SARS_COV2"( the actual cold virus that has always been here and is about to reach herd immunity and become less severe) AKA "COVID19"( the repackaged name of COV2 for the Big Pharma racketeering scam )

2nd paragraph tickles our heinies with smoke being blown up it, doubletalk about how a small dose of poison will boost your immune system and is survivable by many.

and then there's the "variants", like checking for differences in snowflake structure.

Skeptics of the COVID19 scam will be banned from the internet, personally attacked, carreer destroyed, sued into submission and publicly shamed right along with the 2020 Election questioners/insurrectionists

19 posted on 08/26/2023 3:55:36 PM PDT by KTM rider (Be Alert Stay Calm Think Clearly Act Decisively )
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SARS-2 re-named COVID-19 is just a variant of the flu.
It will be with us forever, just at the flu is.

Just as flu seems to be one step ahead of most vaccines so most strains (but not all) of COVID will be one step ahead. As with the Flu, COVID vaccines are already being held back to see what the latest strain will be and new media will then report that the vaccine is tailored to that strain.

This is our culture. It is not limited to vaccines. Give donations to both candidates. Election night show up at the party of the winner.


20 posted on 08/26/2023 3:57:30 PM PDT by spintreebob (ki .h Tg)
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