The XBB.1.5 variant features a new mutation at the 486 position of the spike, which is the protein the virus uses to bind to the ACE2 receptor protein on cells in the human respiratory tract.predicted that a change in the spike protein at this position would allow a variant to escape previous antibodies. Those predictions seem to be correct.
"Bivalent boosters seem to be working the way they are supposed to," says Suthar, by shifting our immunity towards Omicron variants. He speculates that the bivalent booster would provide some protection against XBB.1.5, based on its similarity to other Omicron variants. But his research also suggests that even the bivalent booster may not block XBB.1.5 breakthrough infections.
"It is difficult to say anything about pathogenicity of XBB.1.5 yet," says Kei Sato, a virologist at the University of Tokyo, since there are no data yet. However, Sato's, not yet peer reviewed, on parent strain XBB has shown that the virus attaches more tightly to human cells than other Omicron variants, such as BA.2.75 and BA.2, which suggests it might cause more severe disease. But when hamsters were infected with XBB, the disease symptoms were no worse than those caused by BA.
Omicron Spread: Omicron was probably in N.Y.C. well before the first U.S. case was detected.
Made in a lab somewhere near you!
When is the next variant coming?
Oh my god... here we go again. I cant wait to virtually teach my students. I hate this.
NG, could you, please, stop spreading bullshit? I'd like to remind you that your channel about GEOGRAPHY and supposed nothing like 'yellow pages'.
How much more contagious can it get.
mariposatuitera
No. One. Cares. I'll take my chances with the Chinese bioweapon (funded by Fauci and his NWO cronies) over that poison they call a 'vaccine'. When does Nuremberg 2.0 start?
Aw, it just wants to be closer to us, like a codependent relationship. Cute lil bug bb.
things evolve, things change. its the laws of nature
Who cares? The only thing I'm more sick of seeing besides new covid strains is Harry and Megan crap
Anybody support a lockdown?
Boston University make this one in a lab too?
Every variant is more contagious than the previous one. We must all live in fear but governments very conveniently decided that covid is over. So why are tou telling us all this?
Yeah yeah yeah...
Ughh... We aren't doing this again.
It’s clearly a biological weapon. Where it won’t go away and came out of thin air and was proven to be lab leaked. I guess it’s easier telling people that it’s just an illness and cashing in on it instead of telling people we are in shadow wars and they are using biologicals.
Fucking kills us then yo. No point in fearing death now.
Thanks US government for helping to fund its creation. How about stopping gain of function research worldwide? Help humanity for a change.
Nobel prize Montagnier was right. You were wrong. Shame on you.
Oh no. Anyways
It just loves humans...any new variant that just hates humans?...that should be the cure 😉!
You’re paywalling a Twitter post?
I've heard that before.. Stop the fear mongering!
Just like the flu in the 90s... get over it... you will get immune to it, just as we always have. Keep poking the bear, nature finds a way. The more you keep resisting the illness, the more it can set root, like antibiotics effectiveness. Before this covid BS, I was rarely sick.
Fear fear fear. Have you had enough of the flu/cold yet? It has only existed for an eternity..... Kraken Varient is better marketing anyway, instead of XBB...you have to appeal to the masses to get buy-in!!
I had it and nobody in my house caught it. This was after 4 days of walking around thinking I just had a bad cold. Soooooo yeah. Maybe one day they will perfect it and kill us all. Keep up the fantastic gain of function work fellas.
What the fuck is going on anymore?
Don't care
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3 years.
I had a 20-year love affair with this magazine, no longer trust it's content.
how about the clot shot?
- wants to survive -
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Stop spreading liberal agenda and trying to scare people. Y’all are pathetic. DO NOT GET VACCINATED. DO NOT SUCCUMB TO BETA MENTALITY. Learn from the people just calling over dead from cardiac arrest. There is already 76% of Americans that chose the path of weakness. Never bow.
You'll shoot your eye out kid.
Yup, moons purple too
Died suddenly. Do an article on that.
These lives are in immediate danger MohammadGhobadlou and MohammadBoroghani have been transferred to solitary confinement and may be executed in the next few hours Please, be their voice MahsaAmini StopExecutionInIran
Who cares?
Those geneticists really know how to design the viruses !
Nobody cares
Yawn
Can someone explain this in football terms?
Hello everyone mm mm mm mm interesting don't you think the propaganda of the nwo cabal continues watch your back's everyone.😮
DNA 🧬 changes vaccine or not
So, you're saying that labs continue to perform gain of function?
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