Sorry, I'm not a scientist. What does this mean for the average person? Should we be worried? Is this worse than the last round of COVID.. again, not a scientist, just a concerned citizen.
We do not know about it yet - but we need to be cautious about variant evolution!
But in the meantime- avoid Covid 19 infections- adapt with mitigations- hope this thread answers some of your concerns
- any questioins please ask.
Any evidence for this please ask.
Aren't those two cases from 6 months or more back? If this were such a threat, would it not be rapidly increasing and more on the radar? (jut hoping...) Appreciate an analysis.
Oh dear. Just back from the Primary Health Care clinic with chronic meds - yes FREE - and there were a number of people sniffing and sneezing. In summer.
A reminder the committees responsible for planning the next season’s vaccines have been cancelled by RFK Jr and the 🍊 regime. Also we have an antivaxxer nominated to head the CDC.
This is going to get worse now that the USAID funding for testing & treating HIV has been stopped. The more untreated individuals with HIV, the more opportunity for ANY virus in circulation to find a host with low/no immunity and mutate uncontrolled 😕
The reason we try to eliminate such an easily spreadable virus so quickly is that all mutations give it a chance to become more or less dangerous. Every host it infects gives it a chance to do more damage, or spread differently, or it could become weaker! Not worth the risk.
Not to worry, Robert "heroin tracks" JR is on the case.
His recommendation,same as with the measles outbreak, take one fistful of vitamin A, chug some cod liver oil using a beer bong, and give yourself an ivermectin enema, then call him in the morning.
Slathering one's self in beef tallow, two hits of ecstasy and a case of whippets sound like a great way to start a weekend! Well, it did when i was in my 20's!
We have some of the best epidemiologists and virologists in the world. Our virology labs were to our detriment as we were often finding variants faster than other labs and then it got pinned on us as the "South African variant" lol
Please stay true to your task because the USA has abdicated all responsibility. This is the time to absorb excellent science and medical expertise because we are throwing it into the trash when the world needs it more than ever.
Thank you for the update. Please post the cluster events. Unfortunately, the parasitic brain worm guy that cuts off dead whale heads and plays with road kill cubs is in charge.
And Trump pulled the US out of the World Health Org! Not too smart. We're now on our own with dealing with the next pandemic or outbreak. Between RFK jr & trump's idea to drink bleach we are screwed!
It’s a race to the bottom between another novel virus, decimation of democracy, climate annihilation, plastic nanoparticles destroying us & our ecological chain, or nuclear holocaust. Did I miss any threats. As of today?
Detention camps for immigrants & those who do not obey. He invoked the Alien Enemies Act today. You know…the one FDR used to send Japanese American citizens to internment camps.
Genuinely inerested to find someone with a convincing response to the question "to whose benefit and then what?" I can see their combination of intellectual vacuity and hubris achieving the same outcome, what I can't fathom is, if deliberate - why?
the salesman’s number one rule is “there is always opportunity in chaos”. It’s an opportunity to create chaos for privatization of all agencies who run the US with the ability to create a thorough oligarchy hellbent on reversing social and any economic progress for anyone considered “under-class”
Perhaps the fault is with me looking for a reason other than greed and power. Collapse and the hollowing out of the state to create an all powerful, unaccountable oligarchy sounds a bit like, erm, Russia post 1989. Oh.
A virus or disease is not discriminatory, so this “Trump” regime is just as susceptible to these things as the general public if not even “more so” in their travels internationally. Makes no sense to gut the agencies or deny science cus a virus & science wins 100% of the time, there is no errors!
well that's JUST SWELL. I'm sure we'll see it in Canada soon, since we have pretty much NO measures in place to prevent people from travelling here carrying The 21st Century Plague.
If the last time was any indicator the majority of deaths will again occur in Red states, the macho manly folks who are too manly and too "smart" to mask up.
Of all nations, the U.S. will be last among developed nations successful handling of a pandemic, again.
We're so smart.
Cuidado com esse tipo de chamada. O fato de ter muitas mutações não implica necessariamente que ele vai evadir completamente das estratégias atuais de de proteção. Depende de onde essas mutações estão, o que elas refletem na estrutura/função da proteína, se isso tem impacto no comportamento viral…
These mutations are fascinating, don't think we ever seen any virus studied so well, down to this sort of detail. Its like watching evolution on a human lifetime scale.
Something’s better than nothing. Also, masks do work when a) worn & removed correctly, b) sanitation methods are implemented (hand sanitizer, limit public spaces)…
My two cents: Kann man noch gar nichts dazu sagen. Ja, könnte theoretisch wachsen und sich weltweit verbreiten (wir hatten jetzt recht lange Ruhe und auch keine starke Winterwelle). Könnte aber auch wie z.B. BA.2.87.1. klang- und sanglos untergehen.
Habe nach derzeitiger Datenlage keinerlei Sorge, dass Schutz vor schwerem Verlauf tangiert wird. Ansteckungsschutz ist ja - wie bei anderen Erregern auch - transient, das ist nichts Neues.
the pandemic didn't end. covid is still infecting, disabling, and killing people.
moving forward at this point and pretending it's over as you suggest is irresponsible and anti science.
Not looking forward to being told I’m breaking the law by wearing a mask, or at least getting endlessly harassed for doing so. Blue dot in a very red area here.
Great. Just at a time when RFK probably won’t allow additional tweaks to the existing vaccine-I’d he doesn’t take COVID vaccines away from us altogether.
So I guess we should all run out and take another vaccine that won't help at all? (Those side effects though...😵💫) Notice you can't sue me, because the science would prove me right..🤔🤨🧐🗣️
The science is known worldwide sir. It was exposed by the people who made it several years ago. Doubling down on that attempt at this particular point in history is tantamount to attacking Russia in the winter. It's just not the move.
I truly believe that the Covid shots kept me alive. I grew up an overseas army brat, so we had mandatory vaccines.
The onlything that I do have is an immune disease, that was probably caused by smoking since the age of 16 to 36 - idiot.
cancer isn’t the only thing you get from smoking. Quit now.
I am immune compromised so I got all my shots +2 boosters.
I still got Covid three times, the first one kicked my butt second one was milder and the third was like a light cold.
My brother-in-law did not take any Covid shots and he ended up in the hospital for six months, came out with partial lung missing and part of his intestines missing because they had to take them out.
He was a fireman and his whole station got it
My vaccine works. Several people in my office have gotten Covid and I have not. Why do you care so much that you do that? You want people to die. Is that it?
But NO RESEARCH TO DEVELOP A VACCINE FOR THIS VARIANT. ACCESS TO CDC AND W.H.O. ARE WIPED OUT BY trump....NO TRACKING ALLOWED. How many million Americans are going to die with the next pandemic, DEAR LEADER?
“more frequent COVID-19 booster vaccination (every 6–12 months) in older age groups and the immunocompromised population would effectively reduce the burden of severe COVID-19”….
As always those with comorbidities are who might benefit from the vax. (Hasn't been shown helpful for average healthy person, and actually bad for some groups like young men.)
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https://bsky.app/profile/ryanhisner.bsky.social/post/3lk6fpigqgk22
Includes N95 face masks, indoor ventilation (Corsi-Rosenthal Boxes) and UVC lighting!
https://www.infectioncontroltoday.com/view/far-uvc-is-public-health-tool-we-need-now
But in the meantime- avoid Covid 19 infections- adapt with mitigations- hope this thread answers some of your concerns
- any questioins please ask.
Any evidence for this please ask.
https://bsky.app/profile/670rv.bsky.social/post/3lk4unnshrs2i
Here we go again in the USA.
No vaccines, avian flu and now new Covid mutant.
We are headed for the next pandemic
1) What is the danger level and transmissability of the BA.3 variant?
2) What do the spike mutations change?
3) What should my alarm level be?
2) the more mutations, the less likely that vaccines will help
3) depends if you live in the US or not.
2) Oh shit.
3) Oh fuck!
Thank you kind internet stranger!
Maybe that’ll get the attention of those that want to just wish this virus away 🤬
Virus been doing this for hundreds of millions of years.
Virus says, Catch me if you can
His recommendation,same as with the measles outbreak, take one fistful of vitamin A, chug some cod liver oil using a beer bong, and give yourself an ivermectin enema, then call him in the morning.
Jim, I'm an engineer, not a doctor. 🙃
Of all nations, the U.S. will be last among developed nations successful handling of a pandemic, again.
We're so smart.
We know how to deal with viruses.
More people are going to die.
#ETTD
Not so funny when you realize that South Africa have some of the best scientists. And the US ... uhm
Liebe Grüße 👋🏻
Awesome.
We should've moved forward with our lives, don't you think?
moving forward at this point and pretending it's over as you suggest is irresponsible and anti science.
We are doomed.
#rfksucks
Others will quickly follow we both know how they operate
He actually could help these people....but will he.....?!
Block. Added to lists.
The onlything that I do have is an immune disease, that was probably caused by smoking since the age of 16 to 36 - idiot.
cancer isn’t the only thing you get from smoking. Quit now.
I still got Covid three times, the first one kicked my butt second one was milder and the third was like a light cold.
He was a fireman and his whole station got it
Block. Added to lists.
'aarrrgghhh...the Worms are Eating My Brain.'
Fuck it. Lets just call it SARS-C0V-3: The Revenge of the Genetic Shift
Most should be immune.
And that studies show the vax does very little with evidence more you are vaxed the more likely you are to get it,
Right? Ex:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-45549-9
https://www.cureus.com/articles/313843-behavioral-and-health-outcomes-of-mrna-covid-19-vaccination-a-case-control-study-in-japanese-small-and-medium-sized-enterprises