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SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant​

Type of the virus first detected in November 2021​



Omicron (B.1.1.529) is a variant of SARS-CoV-2 first reported to the World Health Organization (WHO) by the Network for Genomics Surveillance in South Africa on 24 November 2021. It was first detected in Botswana and has spread to become the predominant variant in circulation around the world. Following the original B.1.1.529 variant, several subvariants of Omicron have emerged including: BA.1, BA.2, BA.3, BA.4, and BA.5. Since October 2022, two subvariants of BA.5 called BQ.1 and BQ.1.1 have emerged.
Three doses of a COVID-19 vaccine provide protection against severe disease and hospitalisation caused by Omicron and its subvariants. For three-dose vaccinated individuals, the BA.4 and BA.5 variants are more infectious than previous subvariants but there is no evidence of greater sickness or severity.
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The yearly "flu shot" common in the U.S. is specific to only some, not all influenza strains. To manufacture enough of this vaccine to supply every patient in the U.S. that receives it scientists have to estimate, or guess what actual influenza strain will circulate through the population that year. BUT !!

There are some reports that a universal influenza vaccine is being sought. No recent word on progress.

from sear's notes:

Influenza only has 8 genes (humans have ~20K).
Two of those 8 genes are responsible for getting the virus into and out of a cell.
Viri enter, or penetrate a cell using the Hemagglutinin gene; referred to as "H". But penetrating the cell isn't enough. After it penetrates and replicates, the replicants need to exit that cell to infect the entire host.
The gene for that is Neuraminidase, N.
In birds, there are 16 different kinds of H gene, and 9 different kinds of N. Every flu is some combination of those.
Humans have only caught a few.
The 1918 influenza virus, H1N1, killed ~50M; ~3% of Earth’s human population.
Hong Kong Flu is H3N2.
Avian flu is H5N1.​
 

Should you get the updated COVID vaccine? Here’s the latest guidance for the fall​

Health Sep 13, 2023 5:09 PM EDT
As COVID cases rise across the U.S., people ages 6 months or older will now have access to an updated COVID vaccine to protect them against severe illness and death. The shots are expected to be available as soon as this week, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The updated vaccine is designed to better protect against current variants. It was officially recommended Sept. 12 by both the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices and CDC Director Mandy Cohen. The Food and Drug Administration also endorsed the updated shot this week.
The PBS NewsHour spoke with Dr. Payal Patel, an infectious disease physician at Intermountain Health in Utah, about what to know about the latest vaccine.

To find where you can schedule an appointment for the updated COVID vaccine, go to vaccines.gov.

Who should get an updated COVID vaccine?​


https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health...accine-heres-the-latest-guidance-for-the-fall
 
We get electromagnetic radiation naturally from the sun.
What is unnatural is the increased exposure our bodies also receive from microwave ovens & perhaps cell-phones.
The affects are cumulative.
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So much for the claim that hydroxychloroquine, a drug best known as an antimalarial, was an effective treatment for COVID

Second Most-Cited Paper To Ever Be Withdrawn Finally Retracted After 4-Year Controversy​

The paper had been cited nearly 3,200 times.​

Laura Simmons

A controversial 2020 study that claimed the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine showed promise for treating COVID-19 has been retracted, after sparking widespread criticism from scientists ever since its publication.

The study was originally published online in the International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents on March 20, 2020. With a small sample size of just 36 total participants, the trial had involved treating 20 COVID-19 patients with 600 milligrams of hydroxychloroquine, a drug best known as an antimalarial. Some of the patients were also given the antibiotic azithromycin.

Based on the results, the authors concluded that hydroxychloroquine was “significantly associated with viral load reduction/disappearance in COVID-19 patients” and that this positive effect was improved further by adding azithromycin into the mix.

Think back to March 2020. COVID-19 had only been officially declared a pandemic towards the start of that month. Travel restrictions, social distancing orders, and lockdowns were only just beginning in most places, and there was still a huge amount that scientists and the general public alike did not know about this new disease.

Against that backdrop, this study emerged, claiming that a cheap and readily available drug might be one of the answers people had been desperately searching for. Almost immediately, the hype around hydroxychloroquine took off, including from then (and soon-to-be) US President Donald Trump.

However, almost as quickly, scientific criticism of the study also began rolling in.

The small sample size was an immediate red flag for many, as was the strikingly fast turnaround from submission of the initial manuscript to online publication – with a submission date of March 16, it appeared that the entire publication process must have been completed within just four days, which anyone who’s ever tried to get a paper published will struggle to believe.

Prominent microbiologist and science integrity advocate Elisabeth Bik was quick to lay out concerns about ....

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I lost friends to COVID-19.
I got 5 Pfizer vax.

"A drowning man will clutch at a straw." - Sir Thomas More (1478-1535)

Not sure what the shuffle is about. No need to clutch at a straw, the way AIDS patients did before HIV became an inconvenience, instead of a death sentence.
"The COVID vaccine I would very safely estimate would be seen as one of the greatest scientific achievements of humanity ever." ...
"The estimates are from the Kaiser Family Foundation that between July of '21 and April of '22 when vaccines were available and free to everybody 234,000 Americans died unnecessarily because of misinformation.
The culture wars killed a lot of people." former NIH director, author of The Road To Wisdom, Dr. Francis S.Collins 24/09/17
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Speaking of COVID deaths - this from 2021


US could have averted 40% of Covid deaths, says panel examining Trump's policies​

The country began the pandemic with a degraded public health infrastructure, leading to more deaths than other high-income countries

The US could have averted 40% of the deaths from Covid-19, had the country’s death rates corresponded with the rates in other high-income G7 countries, according to a Lancet commission tasked with assessing Donald Trump’s health policy record.

Almost 470,000 Americans have died from the coronavirus so far, with the number widely expected to go above half a million in the next few weeks. At the same time some 27 million people in the US have been infected. Both figures are by far the highest in the world.

In seeking to respond to the pandemic, Trump has been widely condemned for not taking the pandemic seriously enough soon enough, spreading conspiracy theories, not encouraging mask wearing and undermining scientists and others seeking to ...

www.theguardian.com

US could have averted 40% of Covid deaths, says panel examining Trump's policies

The country began the pandemic with a degraded public health infrastructure, leading to more deaths than other high-income countries
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
 
Shiftless2 said:
Trump's policies
The US could have averted 40% of the deaths from Covid-19
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Statistically. BUT:

COVID-19 vaccine was made available "$free" to the patient. So $poverty would not excuse the unvaccinated.
Thus, was this catastrophic, substantially avoidable attrition not in practical sense Chlorine for the gene pool?
 
But #7 isn't based on the cost of the vaccine to the public - rather it's the result of Trump's actions or lack thereof.
 
Shiftless2 said:
But #7 isn't based on the cost of the vaccine to the public -
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Correct.
But if the consumer fully covered the actual retail costs, it might have placed the COVID vaccines out of reach of as many as we lost, or more. #8 posted to explicitly rule that out.

Shiftless2 said:
"But #7 isn't based on the cost of the vaccine to the public - rather it's the result of Trump's actions or lack thereof." S2 #9
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Indeed.
It's the way such avalanche of ignorance snowballs. The cognitively destitute segment of the U.S. electorate are the political engine of the Trump subversion agenda.
 

Trump orders end to federal funding for schools that require Covid vaccines​

K-12 schools throughout the U.S. no longer require the vaccines, public health groups report.
Trump signed an executive order that would bar federal funding for education institutions that require Covid vaccinations of students.

Updated Feb. 14, 2025, 5:24 PM GMT-5 / By Katherine Doyle
President Donald Trump on Friday signed an executive order halting federal funds for schools that require students to be vaccinated against coronavirus before they can attend classes in person.
Trump’s administration has already taken steps to end coronavirus vaccine requirements at the federal level, including for green card applicants, and reinstated service members who were discharged for refusing the vaccine.
The order states that "{s}ome school districts and universities continue to coerce children and young adults into taking the COVID-19 vaccine by conditioning their education on it" and warns that others could re-implement such mandates.
www.nbcnews.com

Trump orders end to federal funding for schools that require Covid vaccines

K-12 schools throughout the U.S. no longer require the vaccines, public health groups report.
www.nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com

Kennedy, the walking worm cemetery, he's our man.
 
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