The COVID guide: Everything to know about the current state of variants, masking, vaccines and more

yahoo ^ | 12/01/2023 | Rebecca Corey

[ChicagoConservative27]

Here’s a guide for everything you need to know about COVID-19 — from variant- and case-tracking to the most up-to-date public health recommendations. Variants What COVID variant is dominant right now? HV.1 now accounts for nearly a third of cases nationwide — more than any other variant in the U.S. A member of the Omicron family of COVID variants, HV.1 was first detected over the summer and appears to share many of the symptoms we’ve come to know from other variants, including fever, cough, stuffy or runny nose, sore throat and loss of taste or smell. EG.5, nicknamed Eris, has been knocked down to second place after being the most dominant variant in early fall, and is responsible for 13.1% of cases. BA.2.86 variant, nicknamed Pirola, is the third-most dominant, accounting for 8.8% of cases nationwide, with cases of the highly mutated variant nearly tripling in the last two weeks. You can follow the latest COVID variant surveillance on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website.

[ChicagoConservative27]

Take your guide and public health recommendations and shove them up Chris Christies butt.

[BenLurkin]

What’s ‘covid’?

[entropy12]

My regular treadmill exercise is keeping covid and all other health problems at bay.

[Boogieman]

Shorter and better COVID guide:

[1Old Pro]

The updated vaccine targets the XBB.1.5 Omicron strain and is expected to be effective against currently circulating variants.

Now does that anticipated "effectiveness" sound very scientific to anyone? So is it effective in 1% of cases, 10%, 20%. Why do they avoid meaningful data and facts?

[blackdog]

"XBB.1.5 Omicron strain......"

Just enough techy acronyms to be virtuous.

[Fungi]

Advice from yahoo? HaHaHaHa.....

[b4me]

I can’t believe so many people get paid to waste time on this stuff, naming, tracking, etc etc all for schemes and agendas, not really to help anyone for real.

[Basket_of_Deplorables]

What crap.

The vax pushers are working overtime on FR. Pfizer needs their bonuses.

[Sacajaweau]

I think Fauci said that for any vaccine to be good, it should be 75-80% effectiive. These annual vaccines never even get near that.

[Amendment10]

Thank you for referencing that article ChicagoConservative27.

"The COVID guide: Everything to know about the current state of variants, masking, vaccines and more"

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Emphasizing that I am not medically trained, there no mention of vitamin D3 in referenced article. Correction welcome.

Vitamin D - The Sunshine Vitamin (non-FR)

[HIDEK6]

That’s liberal for Lockdown.

[Steve_Seattle]

I wonder if the article mentions that the current level of new cases is lower than in August, and that we did not see anything resembling a “surge” in October and November, despite all the talk of a surge?

[lgjhn23]

The only COVID update I wanna hear about is that Fauci’s been arrested, tried, sentenced and headed to the gallows for a public execution.

[SaveFerris]

(HV.1)

Democrat.Steal.24

[SaveFerris]

(The updated vaccine targets the XBB.1.5 Omicron strain and is expected to be effective against currently circulating variants.)

safe AND effective

Two weeks to flatten the curve

[SaveFerris]

(The only COVID update I wanna hear about is that Fauci’s been arrested, tried, sentenced and headed to the gallows for a public execution.)

Nuremberg II.

NOW.

[goodnesswins]

Of course no mention of Vit D...or likely no Ivermectin, or Zinc, or Quercitin mention either. (AFAIK...I did not read the stupid article)

[PeterPrinciple]

https://nypost.com/2021/09/30/covid-19s-latest-odd-side-effect-restless-anal-syndrome/

COVID-19’s latest bizarre side effect: ‘Restless anal syndrome’

[Theophilus]

FJB