:covid-cool: :biden-rember:
At least :thicc-trump: would try and propose solutions like drinking bleach - you gotta give the man credit for trying
Yeah, check the wastewater, areas of Northeast US are starting their winter surge already, it looks like.
wow I'm so shocked that I had covid for the first time ever two weeks ago
Anecdotally at least, we've been unable to get COVID out of the long term care facility I work at, we were just cleared on my unit a few days ago and then as part of outbreak testing we got a couple more cases because the families brought it in. In other parts of the building it's just not going away so the fact that we're seeing the start of a surge in the northeast seems reasonable.
Weird. The only region which saw heavy Omciron-specific booster adoption since August sees the greatest surge in mutated variants. Two years ago we seemed to acknowledge that vaccines which don’t neutralize infection were in fact concerns for mutation in the long term, but at that time it only mattered for scoring points in the Western info war against Russia.
the problem isn't "vaccines not neutralizing infection" (that's not a thing vaccines do) the problem is not vaccinating everyone means there is now a selective pressure on the evolution of a variant that escapes that vaccine
your hog, post it
preferably in an excel file since you are a data scientist and very wise
Oh it's the crazy dude again that wants to infect toddlers with covid lol
No exaggeration, every time I click on an article about covid it's talking about a strain I had never heard about
rna viruses are generally less stable than dna viruses and this is an rna virus that is basically going to be spreading unchecked forever so it will be constantly mutating and we are basically fucked without 1) lockdowns that actually matter and 2) literally everybody capable of doing so getting vaccinated
this isn't the kind of thing you can just let spread forever but WOOPS
Unfortunately every supply line on the planet except for Toyota is now JIT, so there is zero stockpile anywhere on earth for any material. If we go for full lockdowns the economic damage will be catastrophic.
Please ignore the death count ticker, we can't turn it off.
can't wait for something like ebola to kill entire cities because of that
Not only all of that but it's also a virus that can infect most common animals meaning that it can mutate in fun and crazy ways inside of animal populations like deer, rats, cats, dogs, etc and then jump back over to humans.
With the wonderful side effect of (possibly) making lockdowns way less effective.
I'm not that clever, but both BQ.1 and BQ.11 are sub variants of BA.5, right? So if I vaccinate against BA.5, I'm good to go, do I see that correctly?
That is what I got from the thread as well. Since they're from the BA.5 lineage the bivalent that was made for BA.5 should be effective. The immune escape is from previous vaccines and strains.
