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New XEC Covid variant starting to spread
bbc ^ | 09/16/2024 | Michelle Roberts

Posted on 09/16/2024 10:48:10 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

People have started catching a new Covid variant that could soon take off and become the dominant type, according to scientists. Identified in Germany, in June, cases of the XEC variant have since emerged in the UK, US, Denmark and several other countries, say users on X, formerly known as Twitter. It has some new mutations that might help it spread this autumn, although vaccines should still help prevent severe cases, experts say. For those more likely to become seriously ill from Covid, the NHS offers a free booster shot.

The vaccines have been updated to better match recent variants, although not XEC, which has emerged from earlier Omicron subvariants. Prof Francois Balloux, Director of the Genetics Institute at University College London, told BBC News that although XEC has a "slight transmission advantage" over other recent Covid variants, vaccines should still offer good protection. He says it is possible XEC will become the dominant subvariant over the winter though.

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I better start panicking and go to Walmart and buy all the water and toilet paper ASAP. (S)
1 posted on 09/16/2024 10:48:10 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“xec” — now (finally) that’s a catchy name. it might get legs.


2 posted on 09/16/2024 10:48:58 AM PDT by xoxox
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To: ChicagoConservative27

the only cure is mail in ballots


3 posted on 09/16/2024 10:49:33 AM PDT by BigFreakinToad (Remember the Biden Kitchen Fire of 2004)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Oh Moses smell the roses, when will this nag die?


4 posted on 09/16/2024 10:50:09 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: xoxox

🔬🤔😵🚫😷💉💊🐂💨💩


5 posted on 09/16/2024 10:50:50 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Right on schedule!

C ommunist
O rignated
V ote
I ntegrity
D estroyer.


6 posted on 09/16/2024 10:50:54 AM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: BigFreakinToad

I think it would be reckless to hold an election at all. CoVid can get on envelopes, you know. Better just stick with the Democrats. It’s science.


7 posted on 09/16/2024 10:52:36 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: ChicagoConservative27

There’s thousands of scientists report about every tiny change in Covid, to the state-run media MSM complex, because Government has provided $$ billions to do this research.


8 posted on 09/16/2024 10:56:26 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: Billthedrill

According to users on X (formerly known as Twitter), experts, and scientists.

OK


9 posted on 09/16/2024 10:56:43 AM PDT by Col Frank Slade
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Vaccines can never stay current enough to be “effective”.


10 posted on 09/16/2024 10:58:04 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: ChicagoConservative27

And the BS variant spreads the fastest ...


11 posted on 09/16/2024 10:59:15 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

They now get more Scare Points for COVID than they do for Global Warming ,LOL


12 posted on 09/16/2024 11:00:07 AM PDT by butlerweave
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Vaccines can never stay current enough to be “effective”.

But ventilators can always explode your lungs, and mRNA injections can mess up your heart and induce cancer.

13 posted on 09/16/2024 11:00:38 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

*Yawn*.........


14 posted on 09/16/2024 11:03:01 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: 1Old Pro; null and void; Tilted Irish Kilt
Vaccines can never stay current enough to be “effective”.

EXACTLY!

15 posted on 09/16/2024 11:04:37 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: ChicagoConservative27; thinden; bitt

And what are the symptoms of XEC-variant?
Are they any different than the symptoms of a severe cold?

All viruses mutate and become closer and closer to the original virus.
In this case, Corona Virus...the common cold.


16 posted on 09/16/2024 11:05:45 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (When I say "We" I speak of, -not for-, "We the People")
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Get tested hourly or you may not know you have it...


17 posted on 09/16/2024 11:07:41 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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Uh oh...the xe, xem, ze, zim, sie, and hir weirdos are going to be really pissed that they didn’t grab “xec” first.

Naming a virus “xec” HAS TO BE homophobic or transphobic.


18 posted on 09/16/2024 11:08:59 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (May the soy boys, feminazis, and alphabet weirdos choke on the toxic fumes of our masculinity)
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To: Allegra

Oh, noes.


19 posted on 09/16/2024 11:09:47 AM PDT by Jane Long (The role of the GOP: to write sharply-worded letters as America becomes a communist hell-hole.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I just got over COVID Round 3. Round 1 - July 2023. Round 2 - April 2024. Round 3 - September 2024.

This was nothing more than a sore throat, tiredness, and malaise for a week. No fever, no cough, no congestion. Wonder if I’m an early adopter of “xec”?


20 posted on 09/16/2024 11:11:18 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (May the soy boys, feminazis, and alphabet weirdos choke on the toxic fumes of our masculinity)
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