ChicagoConservative27 : " Here we go....🙄🙄🙄"
"American Medical Association Vice President of Science, Medicine and Public Health, Andrea Garcia, JD, MPH,
said HV.1 has become the variant responsible for most COVID cases here in the United States in just a few short weeks."
According to an article from the TODAY Show, the omicron subvariant accounts for nearly one-third of cases nationwide and is “highly infectious.”
(My Opinion): The virus sub-variant becomes more infectious, but loses it's lethality
as it doesn't want to kill of it's hosts and become extinct, but wishes to continue to exist, hence it spreads more easily.
Recently, in China, another respiratory illness is spreading which seems to primarily affect children; it mimics pneumonia with a high fever, but has not cough.
Hospitals in a specific Chinese province are overwhelmed with children with this communicable disease in hospital emergency departments
Another earlier posting on FreeRepublic discusses the situation in these Chinese hospitals, which I will try to re-locate for infectious disease ping and posting
Everyone should have Ivermectin at home. Voila.
Azithromycin in case it gets into the lungs and goes bacterial.
That kind of statement was common in earlier news about COVID, but it doesn't seem likely if you study the dynamics of infections. Two variants of a contagious illness should coexist for a while in the environment with each spreading at the rate determined by its degree of contagiousness.
Minor variants should not exhibit wildly different degrees of contagiousness with one variant being so contagious that its rate of infection ends up being the most common variant in "just a few short weeks".
I am not sure what the scientific meaning of a "short week" is, perhaps they borrowed the term from industry where it refers to weeks where people have one day off for a holiday.
Yeah, I read about that recently, hits kids mostly, no cough.
If you find a link, ping me please, thanks.
Interesting article:
China grapples with respiratory illness spike, WHO says no unusual pathogen found
By Andrew Silver and Nicoco Chan
November 24, 202312:53 PM PSTUpdated 11 hours
Excerpt:
At this stage, there is nothing to suggest that it may be a new variant of COVID,” he said.
“One thing to note is that we can be reassured that the surveillance processes are working, which is a very good thing.”
Parents in Shanghai on Friday said they were not overly concerned about the wave of sickness, saying while it appeared to be more severe, they expected it to blow over soon.
“Colds happen all over the world,” said Emily Wu outside a children’s hospital. “I hope that people will not be biased because of the pandemic ... but look at this from a scientific perspective.”
Another mother, Feng Zixun, said she was making her eight-year-old son wear a mask and wash his hands more often but nothing much more.
“It’s not that bad, there are more children falling sick now but it’s mainly an issue of protection,” she said.
More at link