Posted on 12/30/2022 1:14:45 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
The omicron subvariant XBB.1.5 has rapidly spread to become the dominant COVID-19 mutation in the U.S., now accounting for 40.5 percent of all cases.
The XBB.1.5 omicron subvariant as of this week has pushed out the BQ.1 and the BQ.1.1 subvariants from their previous positions as the most detected coronavirus mutations, according to surveillance conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The XBB subvariant, from which XBB.1.5 descends, is a recombinant of two subvariants that descended from the BA.2 omicron subvariant. That means it carries genetic data from two versions of the coronavirus that originated from the BA.2 subvariant.
Regionally, XBB.1.5 now accounts for the majority of COVID-19 cases in the northeast, identified as causing 75 percent of cases in New England and in the New York tri-state area.
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Never let a flu go to waste.
OK, so now I have been told all this stuff about the currentish covid virus.
And your point is?
I feel like they are just telling us scary-sounding stuff to make us nervous and afraid.
MOPP Level 4 people!
Dear liberals, you need to take a monthly vaccine shot through winter. Please start ASAP.
Gee, another cold going around. I’m terrified.
And stock up on toilet paper. Proven to be every bit as effective as the vax in controlling covid.
I’m stocking up on healing crystals and aligning my shokras.
I’m bringing Shirley MacLaine back…
it is amazing that there are so many variants going around of something the CDC never did have a sample of.
No mention of China.
Why not call it “omicron subvariant XBB.1.5 squared to the tenth power”?!!!!
They’ve lost control of people and they can’t have that!
Knowing there will be colds and flu,this winter 🥶🥶🥶 have comes more COVID-19(84) fear junk to keep the sheep 🐑🐑🐑 on edge
Weekly works best for leftists. . .
Yes, the XBB.1.5 variant is HUGELY outcompeting (in infectiousness) the other variants that are still extant in the US. Looking at the charts at the below link shows how rapidly it is expanding (as a percent of total cases).
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#variant-proportions
It is not particularly “deadly”. “It’s just the flu, Bro” also applies to XBB as it did to other emerging variants. Any FReepers who are proficient could post images of the data here for ease of reference.
It’s getting ridiculous as LGBTQIA2S+.
Just more fodder so the government can keep pushing the mNRA jab that doesn’t stop the China virus and it doesn’t cure anything. Lean heavily toward the possibility that one may die from getting the jab.
why believe anything that the cdc publishes? the cdc has become a political organization, another branch of government. They put out data to support an idealogy, not a factual narrative.
Oh! Another variant that I don’t give a rats behind about! Yeah!
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