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What To Know About Rapidly Spreading ‘Pirola’ Covid Variant BA.2.86—And If Vaccines Offer Protection
forbes ^ | 11/28/2023 | Arianna Johnson

Posted on 11/30/2023 12:28:11 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27

TOPLINE Pirola, or BA.2.86, is the third most prevalent Covid strain in the U.S., and although there may be concerns the new monovalent vaccines—which protect against the XBB lineage that Pirola isn’t a part of—don’t offer protection against Pirola and its subvariants, drugmakers and the CDC are sure the vaccines offer defense.

Pirola made up 8.8% of cases as of November 25, almost triple the number of cases the variant made up during the previous two-week period ending on November 11, when Pirola wasn’t even one of the top five most prevalent variants, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: chinavirus; covid; covidvariant; pirola; vaccines; variant
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Is there going to be a ooga booga variant anytime soon?
1 posted on 11/30/2023 12:28:11 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Remember the Ninja and Mu variants? They came and went fast. So will this.


2 posted on 11/30/2023 12:30:10 PM PST by Vahan1987
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To: ChicagoConservative27

BA.1.20.2024—Variant


3 posted on 11/30/2023 12:30:22 PM PST by mikelets456
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To: ChicagoConservative27
COVID? What's that? Oh yeah, that unnecessary and contrived hysteria from a few years ago that ruined the economy and destroyed our election system so Trump couldn't be President.

I don't care to re-energize that just because there's another election that Dems are losing coming up.

4 posted on 11/30/2023 12:34:02 PM PST by pepsi_junkie ("We want no Gestapo or Secret Police. F. B. I. is tending in that direction." - Harry S Truman)
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To: mikelets456

Next:

Bottom Line PEROLA.

It attacks your ass….


5 posted on 11/30/2023 12:34:30 PM PST by Col Frank Slade
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I’ve got a vaxxed friend who gets his boosters at the VA as soon as they are released. He’s been in ICU for 9 days due to a stroke. He’s still draining fluid out of his brain. He can talk but that’s about it, hasn’t left the bed. But he’s safe from that COVID thing, maybe.


6 posted on 11/30/2023 12:36:21 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (Successful People Have a Sense of Gratitude. Unsuccessful People Have a Sense of Entitlement)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Of course they don’t offer protection. None of the vaccines have offered protection. It’s a big fat freaking propaganda lie


7 posted on 11/30/2023 12:36:29 PM PST by spacejunkie2001
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The vaccines don’t offer protection. At all. Sort of like using Saran Wrap as a sunscreen. Both useless as a vaccine and dangerous due to other problems the vaccines initiate. Just say No.


8 posted on 11/30/2023 12:39:38 PM PST by Tudorfly (All things are possible within the will of God.)
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There was a slight uptick in Covid deaths and cases in the September time frame. It looks lower now.

No evidence yet that this variant kills a lot of people.


9 posted on 11/30/2023 12:39:47 PM PST by Owen (.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Thank goodness they published this. I always get my medical information from Forbes. :-)


10 posted on 11/30/2023 12:43:49 PM PST by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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"Is there going to be a ooga booga variant anytime soon?"

Not sure about that one, but did hear something about a do-wah-diddy-dumb diddy do. The variant known as Dumb.do/stupid stuff/ according to FauxGuy and CDC (Command Death Central).

I've got my mask, do you? Oops, that's my Kleenex box. Sorry.

11 posted on 11/30/2023 12:45:32 PM PST by A Navy Vet (USA Birth Certificate - 1787. Death Certificate - 2021? )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The only thing you need to know i, do not get vaccinated.


12 posted on 11/30/2023 12:49:45 PM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: ChicagoConservative27

In reading the articles and some articles that are linked to it, I have learned that the latest vaccines aren’t specifically designed for the variants but may lessen the severity of symptoms, and they HOPE the vaccine has a broader span of protection than previous vaccines. There you go. Now they’re selling hope in a hypodermic syringe. Isn’t that worth the risk of myocarditis or a sudden stroke? Just suspend your sense of reason, shut up and roll up your sleeve.


13 posted on 11/30/2023 12:51:51 PM PST by Spok (It takes a lot of learning to understand how little we know. (Paraphrasing Thomas Sowell.))
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Sounds like a cooking oil.


14 posted on 11/30/2023 12:53:26 PM PST by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: Cincinnatus.45-70

>> I always get my medical information from Forbes. :-)

Hey, why not? Fauci got his insider stock trading tips from CDC/NIH! 🤣


15 posted on 11/30/2023 12:53:40 PM PST by Nervous Tick ("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

16 posted on 11/30/2023 12:54:47 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Owen

There used to be thousands of deaths from the flu every year. What happened to that??


17 posted on 11/30/2023 12:55:59 PM PST by Deo volente ("When we see the image of a baby in the womb, we glimpse the majesty of God's creation." Pres. Trump)
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To: ChicagoConservative27; lightman

The variants are moving faster than the new vaccines. And they’re getting weaker, like the common cold.

Soon there will be an SOB variant, perhaps named in honor of Harry Truman. But it will be weaker still. It will give Forbes something to write about, however.


18 posted on 11/30/2023 1:11:46 PM PST by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: Deo volente

That was false information and debunked already. /media


19 posted on 11/30/2023 1:12:21 PM PST by frogjerk (More people have died trusting the government than not trusting the government.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

These people are still talking about “cases” and “hospitalizations” but the ONE thing they aren’t talking about is what damn accurate test are they using to make these ‘diagnoses?’ What the hell test? Where’d they get it from? WHEN did they get it?

They’re still playing the same damn game like it’s a runup to the election preparation so they can mandate mail-in ballots again. I JUST DO NOT BELIEVE THIS GOVERNMENT ANYMORE - about anything.


20 posted on 11/30/2023 1:15:37 PM PST by Gaffer
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