New Omicron variant raises COVID-19 concerns in India and beyond

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Scientists say the variant – called BA.2.75 – may be able to spread rapidly and get around immunity from COVID-19 vaccines and previous infection

The quickly changing coronavirus has spawned yet another super contagious Omicron mutant that’s worrying scientists as it gains ground in India and pops up in numerous other countries, including the United States.

“It’s still really early on for us to draw too many conclusions,” said Matthew Binnicker, director of clinical virology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. “But it does look like, especially in India, the rates of transmission are showing kind of that exponential increase.” Whether it will outcompete BA.5, he said, is yet to be determined.

The latest mutant has been spotted in several distant states in India, and appears to be spreading faster than other variants there, said Lipi Thukral, a scientist at the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology in New Delhi. It’s also been detected in about 10 other countries, including Australia, Germany, the United Kingdom and Canada. Two cases were recently identified on the West Coast of the U.S., and Helix identified a third U.S.

Another concern is that the genetic tweaks may make it easier for the virus to skirt past antibodies – protective proteins made by the body in response to a vaccine or infection from an earlier variant.. In the fall it’s likely the U.S. will see updated formulations of the vaccine being developed that target more recent Omicron strains.

 

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A FAILED Vaccine does Worse than not stop transmission. It creates a selection pressure that tends to train virus to Worse and worse virulence and easier to transmit. Its Fauci Gain of Function played on global population with Faux vaccine steering virus to new deadlyness

whether has signed a contract with vaccine manufacturers and now have fulfilled the contract because the manufacturers do not agree to change the contracts, so-call governments scientists have to find new variants or manufacturers scientists to keep so-call vaccine going

Hehehe in India and beyond.

People should have safe access to booster packs at home. That way if they leave the house they can do a quick shot and throw on two N95 masks and feel somewhat safe in society.

Back to India, like spring 2021. Bodies floating in rivers anyone?

Is that the one that carries all ninja arsenal and even Chuck Norris is hiding from? We better bring the masks back

No it doesn’t. The fake news there my new pushing propaganda like the fake news here. But that hoax is over. Long over.

Released just in time for the midterms...

Yawn

To infinity and beyond. Ahhhhhhhhh Scared yet? 😱

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