The CDC is tracking a new variant of concern dubbed XBB.1.5

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday it is tracking a new variant of concern dubbed XBB.1.5. According to new figures published Friday, it estimates XBB.1.5 makes up 40.5% of new infections across the country. 

XBB.1.5's ascent is overtaking other Omicron variant cousins BQ.1 and BQ.1.1, which had dominated a wave of infections over the fall. Scientists believe its recent growth could be driven by key mutations on top of what was already one of the more immune evasive strains of Omicron to date.

[BananaStrong]

High season will end around the end of January.  Emergency decree should be imposed.   COVID visas again......lockdown until October.    Masks or jail, falang only.   Good fear article!!!!!    Scare tactics!!!!  1984 will never end!!!!

 

In fact, we have never left 1984.     Put that in your matrix pipe and smoke it.

[Eleftheros]

The true Covid hysterics absolutely love a "new variant", especially a "variant of concern".

 

Some of them, it seems, would actually welcome a variant which goes against the trend of medical history and proved to be both more infectious and more severe.

 

They (not all of them, but quite a few) would react with glee to the sight of bodies piling up in hospital corridors, so that they could vent their sanctimonious rage on anyone who disagreed with them -- mask dissidents, anti-vaxxers (whatever that is supposed to mean), Sweden, politicians who removed restrictions and anyone they can tag as "conspiracy theorists".

 

It's as though an apocalypse, even a faux one, gives meaning to otherwise meaningless lives.

[nigelforbes]

6 minutes ago, Eleftheros said:

The true Covid hysterics absolutely love a "new variant", especially a "variant of concern".

 

Some of them, it seems, would actually welcome a variant which goes against the trend of medical history and proved to be both more infectious and more severe.

 

They (not all of them, but quite a few) would react with glee to the sight of bodies piling up in hospital corridors, so that they could vent their sanctimonious rage on anyone who disagreed with them -- mask dissidents, anti-vaxxers (whatever that is supposed to mean), Sweden, politicians who removed restrictions and anyone they can tag as "conspiracy theorists".

 

It's as though an apocalypse, even a faux one, gives meaning to otherwise meaningless lives.

I'm age 73 years and find your trivialising the risks to my health very juvenile, more so your continual attempts at baiting those at risk.....take up a hobby, a new one.

[Eleftheros]

1 minute ago, nigelforbes said:

I'm age 73 years and find your trivialising the risks to my health very juvenile, more so your continual attempts at baiting those at risk.....take up a hobby, a new one.

Your health is not the main issue here. That's your responsibility. Do whatever you want to feel "safe".

 

The fact remains that the idiotic focus on Covid by governments and their apparatchiks has caused them to forget about other diseases that kill such as cardiovascular, cancer, dementia, diabetes, tuberculosis and others. People in the UK were unable - or unwilling - for 2 years to get the early detection and treatment that are the best way to mitigate the effects of these conditions.

 

Even Chris Whitty, one of the main perpetrators of the UK's disastrous Covid response, has now admitted that the inability of patients to see doctors is responsible for some of the excess deaths being recorded in the UK.

 

The Office of National Statistics note that 5,170 deaths in men aged 50-64 could have been helped by heart medications.

 

Whitty said: “We know from the data that there are more 50 to 64-year-olds with cardiovascular issues. It’s the result of delays in that age group seeing a GP because of the pandemic and in some cases, not getting statins for hypertension in time.”

 

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/covid-pandemic-blamed-for-increase-in-heart-deaths-ns7r9jvjh

 

The backlog of patients in the UK awaiting medical attention has reached a record 7.1 million. This is an ongoing medical disaster that was entirely man-made and unnecessary.

 

Only when the obsessing over Covid ends, can we address issues of public health in a sensible way.

 

 

[VinnieK]

I call bs on all these 'variants' 

 

 

 

[nigelforbes]

1 hour ago, Eleftheros said:

Your health is not the main issue here. That's your responsibility. Do whatever you want to feel "safe".

 

The fact remains that the idiotic focus on Covid by governments and their apparatchiks has caused them to forget about other diseases that kill such as cardiovascular, cancer, dementia, diabetes, tuberculosis and others. People in the UK were unable - or unwilling - for 2 years to get the early detection and treatment that are the best way to mitigate the effects of these conditions.

 

Even Chris Whitty, one of the main perpetrators of the UK's disastrous Covid response, has now admitted that the inability of patients to see doctors is responsible for some of the excess deaths being recorded in the UK.

 

The Office of National Statistics note that 5,170 deaths in men aged 50-64 could have been helped by heart medications.

 

Whitty said: “We know from the data that there are more 50 to 64-year-olds with cardiovascular issues. It’s the result of delays in that age group seeing a GP because of the pandemic and in some cases, not getting statins for hypertension in time.”

 

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/covid-pandemic-blamed-for-increase-in-heart-deaths-ns7r9jvjh

 

The backlog of patients in the UK awaiting medical attention has reached a record 7.1 million. This is an ongoing medical disaster that was entirely man-made and unnecessary.

 

Only when the obsessing over Covid ends, can we address issues of public health in a sensible way.

 

 

That's a different twist from your previous posts on this subject. I conclude you've been called out for baiting and have tried to save face by tweaking your narrative. You have no integrity and firmly belong on my ignore list (and everyone else's too, from hereon). Goodbye.

[Scott]

Omicron offshoot XBB.1.5 could drive new Covid-19 surge in US

 

For weeks, scientists have been watching a slew of Omicron descendants duke it out for dominance of Covid-19 transmission in the United States, with the BQs – BQ.1 and BQ.1.1 – seeming to edge out all the others to claim a slight lead.

The result has been a gradual rise in cases and hospitalizations that never seemed to reach the peaks of this summer’s BA.5 wave and was certainly nothing like the tsunami of illness caused by the original Omicron strain a year ago.

But on Friday, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Covid-19 variant dashboard revealed a new dark horse that could soon sweep the field: XBB.1.5.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/03/health/covid-variant-xbb-explainer/index.html

[nigelforbes]

2 minutes ago, Eleftheros said:

On what grounds do you base the claim that it is not sound research?

"This article is a pre-print and has not been peer reviewed. It reports new medical research that has yet to be evaluated and should not be used to guide clinical practice".

 

"You really have two choices. Reject any and all research because it doesn't say exactly what you want it to, or examine it on its merits and maybe even learn something".

[metisdead]

A post with a link to an unapproved source has been removed as well as the replies.  As stated in the link when opened:

 

This article is a preprint and has not been peer-reviewed [what does this mean?]. It reports new medical research that has yet to be evaluated and so should not be used to guide clinical practice.

[dotcalm]

 

"Omicron subvariant XBB.1.5 now accounts for 73% of all sequenced COVID-19 cases in NYC. XBB.1.5 is the most transmissible form of COVID-19 that we know of to date and may be more likely to infect people who have been vaccinated or already had COVID-19."

 

https://www.foxnews.com/health/omicron-subvariant-xbb-1-5-possibly-more-likely-infect-vaccinated-officials-say

 

Vaccine's are not working with new variants and may be detrimental to those already vaccinated. What's going on with the vaccines now, putting people at risk for getting infected by a virus that the vaccine should prevent. Time to rethink the net benefit or lack thereof with mRNA injections.

[rabas]

5 hours ago, dotcalm said:

 

"Omicron subvariant XBB.1.5 now accounts for 73% of all sequenced COVID-19 cases in NYC. XBB.1.5 is the most transmissible form of COVID-19 that we know of to date and may be more likely to infect people who have been vaccinated or already had COVID-19."

 

https://www.foxnews.com/health/omicron-subvariant-xbb-1-5-possibly-more-likely-infect-vaccinated-officials-say

 

Vaccine's are not working with new variants and may be detrimental to those already vaccinated. What's going on with the vaccines now, putting people at risk for getting infected by a virus that the vaccine should prevent. Time to rethink the net benefit or lack thereof with mRNA injections.

Your statement:  "Vaccine's are not working with new variants and may be detrimental to those already vaccinated" is false, nor does your lead quotation suggest it. Please see my post to you in the other thread here.

 

Unless you have some scientific proof, you might consider a retraction.

[Bkk Brian]

6 hours ago, dotcalm said:

 

"Omicron subvariant XBB.1.5 now accounts for 73% of all sequenced COVID-19 cases in NYC. XBB.1.5 is the most transmissible form of COVID-19 that we know of to date and may be more likely to infect people who have been vaccinated or already had COVID-19."

 

https://www.foxnews.com/health/omicron-subvariant-xbb-1-5-possibly-more-likely-infect-vaccinated-officials-say

 

Vaccine's are not working with new variants and may be detrimental to those already vaccinated. What's going on with the vaccines now, putting people at risk for getting infected by a virus that the vaccine should prevent. Time to rethink the net benefit or lack thereof with mRNA injections.

Did you even read your own link?

 

"The department added that getting vaccinated against the virus, including receiving an updated booster shot, remains the best way to protect against hospitalization and death, including from new variants."

 

Why make this false claim?

6 hours ago, dotcalm said:

Vaccine's are not working with new variants and may be detrimental to those already vaccinated. What's going on with the vaccines now, putting people at risk for getting infected by a virus that the vaccine should prevent. Time to rethink the net benefit or lack thereof with mRNA injections.