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New ‘Pirola’ variant of COVID is spreading fast, has experts concerned
NY Post ^ | 09/01/2023 | Marc Lallanilla

Posted on 09/01/2023 12:00:40 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

As COVID-19 cases continue to rise nationwide, a new variant dubbed “Pirola” has experts worried.

Also referred to as BA.2.86, Pirola is a highly mutated variant of the Omicron strain of the coronavirus, which emerged in 2021 and led to a frightful spike in COVID-19 cases and deaths.

“When Omicron hit in the winter of 2021, there was a huge rise in COVID-19 cases because it was so different from the Delta variant, and it evaded immunity from both natural infection and vaccination,” infectious disease specialist Dr. Scott Roberts said in a Yale Medicine bulletin.

The bulletin states that “there is some reason to worry, in that this variant … has more than 30 mutations to its spike protein,” referring to the proteins on the surface of the virus that allow it to enter and infect human cells.

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To: ChicagoConservative27

Kinda corny sounding name.

They must not have their A team handling Covid PR this time.


41 posted on 09/01/2023 2:04:23 PM PDT by Yardstick
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Victrola, Rock ‘n Rolla

Anything ending is “ola” is going to have a hard time sounding scary (notable exception: “ebola”)


42 posted on 09/01/2023 2:07:06 PM PDT by Yardstick
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To: Bratch

😆🤣😜😂☺️☺️🌝😀


43 posted on 09/01/2023 2:22:40 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: entropy12

“When Omicron hit in the winter of 2021, there was a huge rise in COVID-19 cases because it was so different from the Delta variant, and it evaded immunity from both natural infection and vaccination,” infectious disease specialist Dr. Scott Roberts said in a Yale Medicine bulletin.


Either this DR. SCOTT ROBERTS is an idiot or the author of the story made a huge typo.

“...and it evaded immunity from both natural infection and vaccination”.

It should have been

“... and it evaded RESISTANCE from both natural IMMUNITY and vaccination”.


44 posted on 09/01/2023 2:23:53 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on flight MH370)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Let's panic!!! Let's all be good sheep and mask up...

As my son saw on Quora: Imagine a virus so smart it shows up every 4 years... The picture had the guy from the Twilight Zone...

Liberals, F you...We won't be fooled again...

45 posted on 09/01/2023 2:27:52 PM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Guns don't kill people, LIBERALS DO!! Support the Second Amendment...)
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To: Yardstick

46 posted on 09/01/2023 2:29:41 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Don’t care

“Experts” are just mass murderers who didn’t get their Nurembirg trial yet


47 posted on 09/01/2023 2:38:38 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: READINABLUESTATE
With each mutation it becomes less dangerous.

Part of the reason they never admit that is because it makes it painfully obvious that most early variants were engineered in a lab.

48 posted on 09/01/2023 2:46:58 PM PDT by palmer (Democracy Dies Six Ways from Sunday)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Covid hit in early 2020.


49 posted on 09/01/2023 3:06:31 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Biden’s virus.


50 posted on 09/01/2023 3:13:53 PM PDT by OrangeHoof (No food in the stores; fuel prices too high? Thank a liberal.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
As COVID-19 cases continue to rise nationwide

Bullshit.

51 posted on 09/01/2023 3:56:53 PM PDT by tomkat
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To: ChicagoConservative27

BS.9.01.2023


52 posted on 09/01/2023 4:13:29 PM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

How’s the Monkey Pox epidemic progressing?


53 posted on 09/01/2023 7:14:45 PM PDT by Wdempsey (Democrats and slinkys.. Both useless but fun to push down stairs.)
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To: Yardstick

Anything ending is “ola” is going to have a hard time sounding scary (notable exception: “ebola”)

I thought of payola, that fits with this bunch in charge.


54 posted on 09/01/2023 7:45:50 PM PDT by rxh4n1
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To: ChicagoConservative27
"Experts"


55 posted on 09/01/2023 7:53:07 PM PDT by Kenny Bania (Ovaltine? Why not call it Roundtine?)
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To: Kenny Bania

“Now just grab a seat, and make yourselves at home and don’t be shy about helping yourselves to punch and cookies.”


56 posted on 09/01/2023 7:54:07 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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