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China is bracing for a massive new wave of COVID cases. What it means for the rest of the world
Fortune ^ | 5/24/23 | ERIN PRATER

Posted on 05/24/2023 4:18:48 AM PDT by JonPreston

Cases of Omicron variant XBB are mounting in China, forming a new wave expected to crest around 65 million cases a week by the end of June.

XBB, the “first major highly immune-evasive” group of COVID variants, “will sweep through China,” but the wave will be “largely invisible” due to low rates of testing and reporting, Raj Rajnarayanan, assistant dean of research and associate professor at the New York Institute of Technology campus in Jonesboro, Ark., and a top COVID-variant tracker, tells Fortune.

When it comes to XBB variants, “the rest of the world has seen them all.” But up until recently, “China hasn’t,” he says, adding that the country has a substantial population at high risk of severe outcomes from COVID due to age, immune status, and co-morbid conditions.

Increased circulation of XBB variants in China—and elsewhere—is likely to result in the evolution of new XBB variants, Rajnarayanan said. So far, XBB spawn have remained relatively innocuous for those not at increased risk of severe disease, according to the World Health Organization’s latest situation report, released Thursday.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: china; chinavirus; covid; covidvariant; imnotplayingagain; xbb
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To: jacknhoo
you said ...”but the wave will be “largely invisible””

So the only way to know if I'm sick is to get tested?
hmmmm ... now I'm worried ...
I better get a full body scan , I could have a broken arm, or a crushed skull ... or the heart break of psoriasis..!
The sad part is people really fall for this .

21 posted on 05/24/2023 4:53:13 AM PDT by 1of10 (be vigilant , be strong, be safe, be 1 of 10 .)
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To: ClearCase_guy
"If they try to do another “lockdown”, I wonder how the American public will react? Sure, we’re mostly sheep — but how much can the sheep take before they stop being sheep?"

Take away 3,000 cable channels, disable all widescreens and "smart" phones, ban fast food, make it hard to get a new tatt or piercing, shut down internet porn, cancel all sports, shut all chain restaurants and send the price of eggs to $25.00 per dozen. maybe then - there will be the proper reaction against the leftist/globalist/RINO/ scum that pulled the last Covid scam off.

Other than that, sheep will continue going ba-ba-ba and doing what they're told to do. Because that's what sheep do.

22 posted on 05/24/2023 4:55:19 AM PDT by Rocco DiPippo (Free Kiryandil!)
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To: JonPreston

😂True


23 posted on 05/24/2023 4:57:09 AM PDT by avenir ("They sang His praise...they soon forgot His works")
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To: JonPreston

The elites will use it as an opportunity to oppress us again.


24 posted on 05/24/2023 4:57:40 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith….)
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To: HandBasketHell
lock down America, just in time for the general election. watch California, they will lead the lock down.
25 posted on 05/24/2023 4:57:57 AM PDT by Ronald77
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To: JonPreston

No. One of the people at the W.H.O. meeting in Geneva, the meeting to force a one health control framework on the people of the planet, stated they needed a ‘dry run’ to test the powers they’re granting themselves.


26 posted on 05/24/2023 5:02:41 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe
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To: JonPreston

I’m in Arizona. There’s no point in voting at all.


27 posted on 05/24/2023 5:09:30 AM PDT by GrannyAnn ( )
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To: JonPreston

Everyone needs to be ready for the coming hype of a new variant to distract from the coming bank failures.


28 posted on 05/24/2023 5:11:36 AM PDT by wgmalabama (Censored !)
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To: JonPreston
Looks like > fortune.com < is THE clearinghouse for Covid fear porn...


https://fortune.com/well/2023/01/05/kraken-variant-omicron-covid-name-ryan-gregory-biology-professor/amp/

https://fortune.com/well/2023/01/27/meet-orthus-ch11-new-omcrion-covid-variant-delta-mutation-deltacron-convergent-evolution/amp/

https://fortune.com/well/2023/02/08/new-coronavirus-covid-recombinant-possible-who-world-health-organization-admits-viral-evolution-covid-pandemic-omicron-zoonotic-transmission-animal-reservoir/amp/

https://fortune.com/well/2023/01/05/kraken-covid-variant-xbb-1-5-most-transmissible-omicron-can-bypass-immunity-escape-strain/amp/

https://fortune.com/2022/07/05/ba5-omicron-subvariant-now-dominant-in-us-immune-escape-evasion-ba4/amp/

https://fortune.com/well/2022/09/24/new-covid-omicron-variants-subvariants-evade-monoclonal-antibodies-bebtelovimab-recombinants-convergent-evolution-sars-immune-evasion/amp/

https://fortune.com/2022/08/05/when-will-pandemic-end-can-animals-catch-covid-future-omicron-zoonotic-disease-monkeypox/amp/

https://fortune.com/well/2022/11/04/fauci-us-crossroads-covid-kills-2600-day-new-omicron-variants-bloom-winter-coming-soon/amp/

https://fortune.com/well/2022/10/09/americans-hesitant-omicron-covid-booster-shot-vaccine-coroanvirus-forecast-fall-winter/amp/

https://fortune.com/2022/08/04/ba-4-6-omicron-subvariant-covid-ba-5-booster-vaccine/amp/

https://fortune.com/2022/06/14/omicron-ba5-becoming-dominant-in-us-taking-over-steal-omicron-ba2-ba4-covid-pandemic-wave/amp/

https://fortune.com/2022/07/12/ba4-ba5-reinfection-likely-b1-fauci-says-covid-vaccination-booster/amp/

https://fortune.com/2022/07/07/what-is-centaurus-ba275-new-stealth-omicron-covid-subvariant-cdc/amp/

https://fortune.com/2022/07/09/is-covid-omicron-more-transmissible-infectious-than-measles-ba4-ba5/amp/

29 posted on 05/24/2023 5:25:55 AM PDT by yelostar (AI takeover: another phony problem created to coerce the citizen into surrendering his freedom.)
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To: Rocco DiPippo

I like your reply. Sheep will be sheep.


30 posted on 05/24/2023 5:29:21 AM PDT by redfreedom (You can vote your way into socialism, but you may have to shoot your way out.)
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To: yelostar
Maybe it's not an accident that..

OMICRON = MORONIC

31 posted on 05/24/2023 5:31:42 AM PDT by yelostar (AI takeover: another phony problem created to coerce the citizen into surrendering his freedom.)
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To: yelostar

Excellent digging. Thank you.


32 posted on 05/24/2023 5:35:12 AM PDT by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ Free kiryandil )
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To: JonPreston

Didn’t China try to pull this SAME stunt 2-3 months ago? Predicted HUGE infection rate, then POOF the story disappeared.

China is just a Filthy Disease Infested Country. They need sterilized with Hell Fire.


33 posted on 05/24/2023 5:35:14 AM PDT by OHPatriot (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: JonPreston

Emergency!

There’s a cold spreading through China and most people who catch it don’t know it


34 posted on 05/24/2023 5:39:22 AM PDT by map
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To: JonPreston

Lockdown about 3 or 4 months before the 2024 election here.

“it’s for da chirrens.”


35 posted on 05/24/2023 5:41:44 AM PDT by dynachrome (“We cannot save Ukraine by dooming the US economy.” Rand Paul)
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To: JonPreston

Sorry, not playing covid anymore.


36 posted on 05/24/2023 5:48:27 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: JonPreston

Do you believe the Chinese Communist Party ?


37 posted on 05/24/2023 5:51:52 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: ClearCase_guy

There won’t be another lockdown, at least not in most states

I don’t think the governments of Tx,fl, ok, ar, mt etc would even consider it and if it did happen it would be widely ignored and a lot of politicians would lose their jobs in the next election

Plenty of legitimate things to worry about, this isn’t one of them


38 posted on 05/24/2023 5:52:08 AM PDT by Manuel OKelley
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To: albie

I guess we need to mask up and close everything down for 2 weeks. Just comply and be a good little lemming.


39 posted on 05/24/2023 5:56:26 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: ClearCase_guy
Sure, we’re mostly sheep — but how much can the sheep take before they stop being sheep?

Right up until the slaughter.

40 posted on 05/24/2023 5:57:40 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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