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3 cases in Gujarat of Omicron variant that caused havoc in China

US President Joe Biden Suffering From COVID 19 Omicron Subvariant BA.5

US President Joe Biden Suffering From COVID 19 Omicron Subvariant BA.5

US President Joe Biden: America’s President Joe Biden has recently been found infected with the Corona virus. Now information is coming that his sub-variant of Omicron is likely to be infected with BA.5. At present, even after being infected with Corona, Joe Biden is attending scheduled meetings through virtual medium from his residence. President Joe Biden’s physician, Dr. Kevin O’Connor, has…

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Pandemics don’t go away because people get bored with them. And COVID-19 has shown an unusual ability to adapt to our defenses against it. It is certainly not “just the flu” as some slackers and anti-vaxxers foolishly claim.

Researchers have discovered that the Omicron BA.2 subvariant can produce brain inflammation.

New research on the Omicron subvariant of the coronavirus has suggested the pathogen could be changing how it attacks the human body - shifting from infecting respiratory systems to increasingly targeting the brain. Researchers from Australia and France found BA.5 - the coronavirus subvariant driving what is now the world's biggest surge of infections in China - did much more severe damage to mouse brains and cultured human brain tissues than the previous BA.1 subvariant, leading to brain inflammation, weight loss and death. The findings challenge the common belief that viruses usually evolve to become less pathogenic. "Compared with BA. 1, we found that a BA.5 isolate displayed increased pathogenicity in K18-hACE2 mice with rapid weight loss, brain infection and encephalitis, and mortality. In addition, BA.5 productively infected human brain organoids significantly better than BA. 1," a manuscript of the research said.

The bivalent boosters from Pfizer and Moderna provide improved protection against BA.5.

New Covid boosters work better against infection than previous shots, CDC finds

The first real-world data on the new omicron vaccines find that they are better at preventing symptomatic Covid infections than the earlier doses, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday.

The findings fortify messaging from public health officials that the new shots, from Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna, should provide people with the best protection against Covid this winter, according to the CDC report.

Both Pfizer’s and Moderna’s new boosters target BA.4 and BA.5, along with the original coronavirus strain, in a single dose.

If you plan to attend a crowded New Year’s celebration, it’s a good idea to get the bivalent booster now.

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Regarding the current state of the covid epidemic, and the evolutionary pressures coming to bear on the virus(es?) due to public health decisions on the part of the Biden Administration (et al).

The conclusion:

Taleb defines a “ruin problem” as “one where outcomes of risks have a non-zero probability of resulting in unrecoverable losses.” I suppose it would be possible for some to consider a million people dead from Covid not ruinous — after all, we can always breed more — but taking such risks repeatedly sounds like a very bad idea, especiallly since we’re taking that risk “at the systemic and collective level.”

If the papers I have presented are correct, the Biden Adminstration’s policy of mass infection has brought us to the brink of ruin. Vaccine escape is the direct result of the Administration’s mass infection policy. GM [a comment contributor known to the authors of NC and knowledgeable on health matters] writes:

[N]ever before has such a virus received the opportunity to replicate so fast and so much. We’re talking several orders of magnitude more replication than usual. And these are the results.

In the worst case scenario, the health care system is right back where it was in Spring 2020, with no working vaccines. Moreover, it will be overwhelmed not merely with Covid cases — remember “flattening the curve”? Good times! — but with all sorts of new infections brought about by Covid’s immune dysregulation abilities, as is happening in the UK now.

Even worse, the subvariants with demonstrated immune escape capabilities (BQ/XBB) are peaking and becoming dominant during the Christmas and New Year’s holiday period. Worse than that, the Southwest Airlines debacle has meant that there have been entire families, nationwide, staying 24/7 in airports, which are Covid hotspots, for days. Worse than that, opening up China will — probably already has — expose us to whatever variants have been brewing in immunocompromised Covid patients in that country.

Can’t anyone here play this game? “The pandemic is over.” No, it’s very not. It’s deja vu all over again! How many times do we have to repeat? Maybe try something new? Before it’s really too late?

I dont think dressing goth but not listening to the music inherently makes you a poser but i do think if you've never made any real attempt at exploring the goth music scene or its history or even adjacent music scenes then that is just kinda sad and very boring of you

It turns out that although contracting COVID-19 will increase an individual’s immunity against future infections of the pandemic-causing coronavirus, repeat infections appear to increase the chances of developing serious complications associated with the disease, such as long-term heart, lung or neurological issues, and even death. This is important to keep in mind as COVID-19 cases around the world rebound once again, with new immunity-evading Omicron subvariants now making up nearly 50 percent of cases in the United States.

“There was a popular narrative that after surviving COVID-19, the next infection will be milder. Anecdotal experience had however shown that’s not the case. Many people have said that their second bout was worse, while others have said it was mild,” Dr. Rajeev Jayadevan, Co-Chairman, National IMA COVID Task Force tells The Hindu.

“Now, this study has confirmed that with every subsequent bout of COVID-19, there are additional and cumulative health problems. In other words, it is not necessarily going to be a common cold the next time around. The SARS-CoV-2 virus is not a common cold virus, it can repeatedly affect organs such as blood vessels, immune system, heart, brain and the lungs. It has shown that it can infect people who were unvaccinated, vaccinated or boosted,” he adds...

The SARS-CoV-2 virus is here to stay and the threat posed by the virus will remain for years. Public health measures, particularly non-pharmaceutical interventions such as mask wearing, better ventilation, and use of air filters to name a few need to be embraced to reduce the risk of virus spread.

still so jarring to see media that takes place during the pandemic

Reminder that this shit is still evolving.... 😩

Wear your mask inside public places or anywhere it’s crowded, preferably an N95 or KN95.

Maharashtra Two Patients Tested Positive For Omicron Sub-variant BA.5

Maharashtra Two Patients Tested Positive For Omicron Sub-variant BA.5

Coronavirus in Maharashtra: There is once again a spurt in the cases of Coronavirus infection across the country. Cases of Kovid-19 infection have come to the fore in the last few days, it is a matter of relief for the time being that the number of people recovering from corona infection has also seen an increase. Meanwhile, cases of infection from Sub Variant BA.5 of Omicron have been observed…

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You may be done with COVID-19 but COVID-19 certainly isn’t done with us. 

It doesn’t help that only 107,004,061 Americans have been boosted out of a population of 337,341,955. And a measly 399,650 kids under age 5 have gotten a single dose since it was approved for them on June 18th.

The more you’re vaccinated, the better your defenses are against new variants.

If you don’t get COVID-19 in the first place, you can’t get Long COVID with its neurological complications.

Brain fog, other long Covid symptoms can last more than a year, study finds 

The virus will only go away when people are no longer acting as incubators for new variants.

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