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What we know about the XBB.1.5 COVID variant sweeping the Northeast
The hill ^ | 01/08/2023 | Joseph Choi

Posted on 01/08/2023 7:04:28 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

The XBB.1.5 omicron subvariant is raising concerns of a potential surge in COVID-19 cases as it sweeps across the Northeast.

Officials have warned in recent weeks that the strain is highly transmissible, can more easily evade the immunity offered by vaccines or prior infections than past variants — and is likely to drive cases up around the country.

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KEYWORDS: covid; northeast; sweeping; variant
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Three years later and these fear porn headlines are still something. Sweeping the northeast!!!! New variant!!! Potential surge!! 🙄🙄🙄
1 posted on 01/08/2023 7:04:28 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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Three years later and these fear porn headlines are still something. Sweeping the northeast!!!! New variant!!! Potential surge!!

It's like the flu.

2 posted on 01/08/2023 7:06:12 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Wow. People are getting colds in January. Who woulda thunk??


3 posted on 01/08/2023 7:06:28 AM PST by Kaiser8408a (z)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The hospitals have had three years to prepare for any “surge”.

The afflicted can receive care. The rest of the population can go about their lives as normal.


4 posted on 01/08/2023 7:06:34 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

So what? In most people, it is a cold.


5 posted on 01/08/2023 7:07:58 AM PST by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and don't wish to smile.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

We’re not pressing the panic button.


6 posted on 01/08/2023 7:08:03 AM PST by Socon-Econ (adi)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

XBB? BIG WHOOP! Boring. What’s the latest cold variant?


7 posted on 01/08/2023 7:09:07 AM PST by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA. -PRO-MAX)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Raising concerns...surge...sweep...highly transmissible...

Fear mongering {deleted}.


8 posted on 01/08/2023 7:10:21 AM PST by EEGator
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To: Kaiser8408a

The flu “variant” changes each and every year. The vaccines are about 30% effective.


9 posted on 01/08/2023 7:11:13 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Vaxed immune systems effected most.


10 posted on 01/08/2023 7:12:02 AM PST by Track9 (You are far too inquisitive not to be seduced…)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Lock us down, mask us, and isolate us harder. It will work just like in china.


11 posted on 01/08/2023 7:13:20 AM PST by dynachrome (“We cannot save Ukraine by dooming the US economy.” Rand Paul)
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To: House Atreides

What’s with this XBB? Why doesn’t it have a Greek letter name such as Delta or Omicron? Are they changing the way they name variants of the virus?

And what’s with the fear porn aspect of things? Are we supposed to be scared to death again, interrupt our lives because a virus has mutated? Viruses mutate and have since time immemorial.


12 posted on 01/08/2023 7:15:49 AM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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You can sing along with Jimmy song about covid....

Scroll down the page.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/01/report-nbc-execs-regret-renewing-jimmy-fallons-80-million-contract-now-greg-gutfeld-rules-late-night/


13 posted on 01/08/2023 7:20:05 AM PST by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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What we know....

...as of today, three years into the "event" ---

( 6,705,769 Global Deaths / 7,944,245,374 Global Population ) x 100 = 0.0844 percent mortality rate.

Sources: https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/ and https://www.census.gov/popclock/world

If the "official" mortality rate is calculated on three years' running total, what would an annualized rate be? Less, to be sure.

A mere 99.9156 percent survivable.

14 posted on 01/08/2023 7:24:04 AM PST by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Yawn. Don your face diapers and social distance by curling into the fetal position as you piss your pants in fear.


15 posted on 01/08/2023 7:25:01 AM PST by ConservativeInPA (Stupidly is a moral problem, not an intellectual problem. )
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"Why doesn’t it have a Greek letter name such as Delta or Omicron?"

Οι Έλληνες εφηύραν το αλφάβητο, ώστε κανείς να μην χρειάζεται να επικοινωνεί χρησιμοποιώντας σύμβολα

16 posted on 01/08/2023 7:25:22 AM PST by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
Viruses mutate and have since time immemorial.

This is what? Mutation number 9 or 10? Pharms need to hurry up and get the latest booster out that won't work for this variant so the next mutation can start brewing for the pharms to cook up more fake vax's. What a scam, release a cold bug, make endless dna altering vax to drive this mutation express to further the billions going into medical, federal and political coffers and try to keep their thumbs down control of the masses that believe this endless drivel.

Some heads need to start rolling in the political and medical venues that keep this farce going to line their pockets. Follow the money. They don't even try to hide it anymore, in fact they brag about their scam openly.

17 posted on 01/08/2023 7:26:23 AM PST by redcatcherb412
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To: Dilbert San Diego

They were going to run out of Greek letters soon. Switching to three letters of a 26 letter alphabet gives them 17,576 new variant names. They are ecstatic.


18 posted on 01/08/2023 7:27:56 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (If you're not part of the solution, you're just scumming up the bottom of the beaker)
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To: ConservativeInPA

I thought masking was over but there are still some places you walk in, especially medical, where the people lose their poo if you’re unmasked.

Sometimes I want to make scary faces, stomp my foot and say BOO!


19 posted on 01/08/2023 7:35:45 AM PST by Irenic
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“What we know about the XBB.1.5 COVID variant sweeping the Northeast”

So the Chinese have been able to export their new strain of the COVID.


20 posted on 01/08/2023 7:39:15 AM PST by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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