CDC reports a new strain of omicron taking over in the U.S.

The pharma gravy train of profits is drying out, the supposed "new version" has been around for over a year in northern US, no big deal just covid, you know another cold, covid is here to stay and will be forever.

Do not let the Marxist and oppressors in the nation take over again due to scaremongering.

Is all a scam

a reply to: quintessentone

I just hope they will be able to tweak a vaccine that works.

They undoubtedly will; just give them at least 10-20+ years more and a few million more lives...and VIOLA! Perfection! Well, besides a few fatal vaers events per 100,000.

originally posted by: iwanttobelieve70
a reply to: Ophiuchus1

Cdc lies. Give me a double blind study then I will get back to you. They should be disbanded for corruption.

This is the only post that matters

a reply to: iwanttobelieve70

Yes.
And yes.

However, don't stop with just the CDC.

a reply to: Ophiuchus1

To avoid the perception of plagiarism, you should use the format provided to post someone else news content.

Dec. 31, 2022, 7:07 AM CST
By Akshay Syal, M.D.
A new version of omicron has taken hold in the U.S., according to the most recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The subvariant of omicron, named XBB.1.5, has raised concerns about another potential wave of Covid cases following the busy holiday travel season.

The CDC projected Friday that about 40% of confirmed U.S. Covid cases are caused by the XBB.1.5 strain, up from 20% a week ago. In the Northeast, about 75% of confirmed cases are reported to be XBB.1.5.

It’s not clear yet where this version of omicron came from, but it appears to be spreading quickly here. There’s no indication it causes more severe illness than any other omicron virus, Dr. Barbara Mahon, director of CDC’s Coronavirus and Other Respiratory Viruses Division, told NBC News.

originally posted by: network dude
good news is, if you get vaccinated, you will still pass this on, still get it, but you will get less sick than you would have, had you not been vaccinated. And please don't ask how that's measured.
......

It's measured statistically. You look at a large number of individuals who got infected without being vaccinated, you match them demographically by age, sex, and other relevant variables to a group who got infected after getting vaccinated and compare their outcomes. If the vaccinated group has a significantly lower percentage of hospitalizations and/or deaths then that shows that vaccination had a positive effect on the population.

Here's a data base that shows exactly that comparison:

ourworldindata.org...~50%2B

Look at the comparison from July 23, 2002. The death rate per 100,000 of the unvaccinated was 10.62. For vaccinated and boosted it was 0.93. Being vaccinated and boosted cut your risk of death by a factor of ≈ 10 compared to being unvaccinated.

Even though my case is anecdotal it is entirely consistent with this pattern. I am in an age group and with one or more pre-existing conditions that would make my case mortality rate 140x greater than that of an 18-29 year old. But, I am fully vaxxed and boosted. I tested positive for Covid on Christmas Day. I had mild symptoms that lasted for about 4 days and now I am testing negative. I can't prove that vaccination made the difference in my particular case, but it is entirely consistent with the statistics.

originally posted by: 1947boomer

originally posted by: network dude
good news is, if you get vaccinated, you will still pass this on, still get it, but you will get less sick than you would have, had you not been vaccinated. And please don't ask how that's measured.
......

It's measured statistically. You look at a large number of individuals who got infected without being vaccinated, you match them demographically by age, sex, and other relevant variables to a group who got infected after getting vaccinated and compare their outcomes. If the vaccinated group has a significantly lower percentage of hospitalizations and/or deaths then that shows that vaccination had a positive effect on the population.

Here's a data base that shows exactly that comparison:

ourworldindata.org...~50%2B

Look at the comparison from July 23, 2002. The death rate per 100,000 of the unvaccinated was 10.62. For vaccinated and boosted it was 0.93. Being vaccinated and boosted cut your risk of death by a factor of ≈ 10 compared to being unvaccinated.

Even though my case is anecdotal it is entirely consistent with this pattern. I am in an age group and with one or more pre-existing conditions that would make my case mortality rate 140x greater than that of an 18-29 year old. But, I am fully vaxxed and boosted. I tested positive for Covid on Christmas Day. I had mild symptoms that lasted for about 4 days and now I am testing negative. I can't prove that vaccination made the difference in my particular case, but it is entirely consistent with the statistics.

Hmmmm. Bill and Melinda Gates funded. WHO Funded. UK Government funded.

Our World In Data is a project of the Global Change Data Lab, a registered charity in England and Wales (Charity Number 1186433).

Global Change Data Lab

originally posted by: 1947boomer

originally posted by: network dude
good news is, if you get vaccinated, you will still pass this on, still get it, but you will get less sick than you would have, had you not been vaccinated. And please don't ask how that's measured.
......

It's measured statistically. You look at a large number of individuals who got infected without being vaccinated, you match them demographically by age, sex, and other relevant variables to a group who got infected after getting vaccinated and compare their outcomes. If the vaccinated group has a significantly lower percentage of hospitalizations and/or deaths then that shows that vaccination had a positive effect on the population.

Here's a data base that shows exactly that comparison:

ourworldindata.org...~50%2B

Look at the comparison from July 23, 2002. The death rate per 100,000 of the unvaccinated was 10.62. For vaccinated and boosted it was 0.93. Being vaccinated and boosted cut your risk of death by a factor of ≈ 10 compared to being unvaccinated.

Even though my case is anecdotal it is entirely consistent with this pattern. I am in an age group and with one or more pre-existing conditions that would make my case mortality rate 140x greater than that of an 18-29 year old. But, I am fully vaxxed and boosted. I tested positive for Covid on Christmas Day. I had mild symptoms that lasted for about 4 days and now I am testing negative. I can't prove that vaccination made the difference in my particular case, but it is entirely consistent with the statistics.

Blah blah blah...there's studies in every direction! There's a study to prove your study wasn't really studied and another study to prove that study wasn't really a study because of a different study!

People are sick of hearing this hogwash...people are sick of trying to wade through it all!

Statistics...you really think that is empirical proof...I have four years of university level statistics under my belt and can assure you that statistics mean jack diddly crap!

Statistics for research psychology...there's a joke...spent a whole two semesters learning about how to make up stuff essentially! Your personal experience counts as just that...your personal experience...the rest is hogwash!

a reply to: 1947boomer

You do not get it, the pharma does not want you, you are already a willing lab specimen, they want us the Un jabbed, because we have become a thorn on pharma agenda plans.

I had covid already, 4 days with symptoms that were not even close to a flu, and I am still alive and well, I guess I am an oddity.

Un jabbed means loss of profits, pharma cannot have that, we are the uncooperative, the unwilling and a danger to the globalist.

All in all…..this is becoming a Carnival

Let’s spin the Ol wheel for the limited Vaccine relief….



Now to see what’s catchable


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a reply to: Ophiuchus1

It soo obvious is not funny anymore, pharma wants to use covid as a permanent way of unstoppable income, no just a jab, but several jabs plus boosters, no just once a year, but every few months, if they can just get enough money in congress to buy out the corruption, we call politicians to make it permanent and by law.

originally posted by: network dude
ZOMG!! I just had a thought....Fauci retired......what we gonna do now brain?

Don't worry about Ol' Faky. They'll bring him back as an advisor and he'll make millions in "consulting fees".

But I boosted my boosted booster!
Biden said I was safe too)

originally posted by: 1947boomer

originally posted by: network dude
good news is, if you get vaccinated, you will still pass this on, still get it, but you will get less sick than you would have, had you not been vaccinated. And please don't ask how that's measured.
......

It's measured statistically. You look at a large number of individuals who got infected without being vaccinated, you match them demographically by age, sex, and other relevant variables to a group who got infected after getting vaccinated and compare their outcomes. If the vaccinated group has a significantly lower percentage of hospitalizations and/or deaths then that shows that vaccination had a positive effect on the population.

Vaccines are now shown to increase risk of infection for every shot taken. They are also almost completely useless after 3 months. The reporting agencies are not releasing vaccine status with morbidity, which is probably because even if there is a minor reduction in deaths from COVID in the vaccinated then the total risk of morbidity post vaccination exceeds the singular risk of COVID mortality. That data would easily prove if they're telling the truth and thusfar data embargoed from public release has uniformly been data that goes against the pharmaceutical company's interests.


Excess deaths in highly vaccinated countries are well above average. This is while the severity of the disease variants outside the highly vaccinated countries has declined over time, also for a disease that prior to vaccination had a very low mortality except for those with the highest risk.

Prior to vaccines and without including that most deaths irrespective of age include multiple comorbidities.

Credit to Asmodeus3 for pulling the data from the study cited

0.0003% - 0-19yrs
0.003% - 20-29yrs
0.011% - 30-39yrs
0.035% - 40-49yrs
0.129% - 50-59yrs
0.501% - 60-69yrs

www.medrxiv.org...

Now, we also have Dr Kerryn Phelps reveals ‘devastating’ Covid vaccine injury, says doctors have been ‘censored’

Considering that the majority of Australian adults have now had at least one booster, this suggests that the incidence of serious adverse reactions per vaccinated person could be more than 1-in-1000. PEI admits that under-reporting is a problem, and observers suggest that an order of magnitude of under-reporting is not unreasonable to consider (most estimates put underreporting at much worse than this).

This means that even at the .1% rate of serious adverse effects cited, which is likely a magnitude higher, the risk of serious adverse effect from the vaccines is higher than the mortality risk of the disease in the unvaccinated in all but those over 50. This doesn't account for the increased risk of infection which, irrefutably, increases your risk of death because if you do not get the disease you obviously cannot die or be hospitalized from it.

That it's even close in the highest risk groups at this early stage with each data set studied seemingly increasing the observed risk of adverse effects, which we were told didn't exist or were exceedingly rare by the same people making claims about qualitative improvements with vaccination, is a very bad sign.

You are taking an experimental drug still produced under EUA, in some cases only tested on a few animals, with no long term data, that over a million doses were rejected by the country receiving them due to poor manufacturing standards, which has marginal efficacy preventing death, that doesn't prevent transmission, that increases your risk of the disease with each dose, and will likely be found to be more dangerous than the disease.

No amount of advertising that taking the vaccine is to your benefit and morally proper changes this. Your risk of death is likely increasing with each booster you take and it's possibly creating immune system tolerance through increased proportion of IgG4 and a decline in the more effective IgG3. Combined with increased spike protein production from vaccination versus contracting the disease this would allow higher numbers of the spike proteins to damage cells unmitigated, while it also increases the time it takes to clear the infection. This doesn't even consider the yet to be thoroughly investigated decreased immune efficacy against other non-COVID diseases upon exposure and the resurfacing of latent infections that is already listed as a known adverse event.

originally posted by: marg6043
a reply to: Ophiuchus1

It soo obvious is not funny anymore, pharma wants to use covid as a permanent way of unstoppable income

Pharma won’t be satisfied until they can add another category of shelves of do nothing Covid pills, elixirs, etc.. at your local pharmacy. It’s about income streams…..


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originally posted by: quintessentone

originally posted by: MykeNukem
a reply to: Ophiuchus1

Omicron = Moronic

Coincidence?

micronO or irocmon?

Joking aside this is no joke.

All About XBB.1.5 Variant

XBB.1.5 is a new recombinant strain and is both more immune-evasive and better at infecting than BQ.1 and XBB, the virologist said adding that it is not ‘typical Omircon’, but a special recombination mixture variant that is further mutated.

XBB was first identified in India in August. It quickly become dominant there, as well as in Singapore. It has since evolved into a family of subvariants including XBB.1 and XBB.1.5.

Andrew Pekosz, a virologist at Johns Hopkins University, said XBB.1.5 is different from its family members because it has an additional mutation that makes it bind better to cells, reported India Today.

“The virus needs to bind tightly to cells to be more efficient at getting in and that could help the virus be a little bit more efficient at infecting people,” Pekosz said.

Scientists at Columbia University have warned that the rise of subvariants such as XBB could “further compromise the efficacy of current Covid vaccines and result in a surge of breakthrough infections as well as re-infections.”

The scientists described the resistance of the XBB subvariants to antibodies from vaccination and infection as “alarming.” The XBB subvariants were even more effective at dodging protection from the omicron boosters than the BQ subvariants.

www.india.com... -cases-india-latest-updates-5832154/

I just hope they will be able to tweak a vaccine that works.

Can you list the names of the vaccines made for the other human coronaviruses that have been with us for long time. Even the most recent ones SARS-CoV and MERS.

You will be surprised by the number of vaccines that exist for these coronaviruses. Do you know the number?

a reply to: quintessentone

The vaccine was the bio weapon they came up with, in case COVID doesn’t get ya. It works, just not in a way that is beneficial to humans.

originally posted by: jerryznv
a reply to: Ophiuchus1

This is great...I hope all you vaccinated feel safe! Remember you got vaccinated so you could feel "safe" or because you were at risk and it was medically necessary (or whatever dumb reason you believed)!

I'm still over here rocking this non-vaccinated sign watching the world burn! Bring on the new strains...I'm sure they'll be new vaccines too for you sheep to try out so don't fret too much yet!

Hon, I'm with you but go easy on the vaxxers who were told to hide in their homes until a vaccine was made.

I come from a high immigrant population neighborhood. Immigrants from Asia (China, Japan, India, South Korea, Indonesia), immigrants from Central America (Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala, Panama), immigrants from Europe (Russia, Poland, Ukraine, France, Spain), immigrants from the Middle East (Saudi Arabia, Iraq, UAE), immigrants from Africa (South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria, Ethiopia). We catch everything. Also because there's homeless dumpster divers digging thru everyone's trash stretching for miles, looking to make a buck off recycled goods for dumpsters. They enter every corner store and fast food joint after dumpster diving.

I learned early on that COVID was a matter of "survival of the fittest" when in March 2020, hospitals refused entry of people in my neighborhood. Doctors offices refused appointments for people in my neighborhood. Out of everyone having difficulty breathing in March 2020 who called paramedics, ONLY ONE, got a breathing treatment via a paramedic and the one was previously diagnosed with COPD.

So, when hospitals, doctors offices and paramedics refused treatment of an entire neighborhood who caught COVID in March 2020, we all learned we can't depend on them, survival of the fittest. We have to become immune on our own.

And so, I, and others...
1. Became naturally immune to the COVID strain from Oregon/Washington (Feb-Mar 2020)
2. We became naturally immune to the COVID strain from NYC/Italy
3. We became immune to several mutations after that.
4. We became naturally immune to Alpha-Covid (Summer 2020
5. We became naturally immune to the Arizona mutation of COVID (which is a mutation of Beta out of South Africa)
6. We became immune to Gamma COVID, brought in from Central America immigrants.
7. We became naturally immune to Lambda and Mu variants which came in from California
8. My neighborhood then caught Delta, an easy variant to fight off after our immunity to other variants.
9. Then my neighborhood built up natural immunity to Delta plus, from India. (large population of immigrants from India in my neighborhood)
10. Then my neighborhood caught Omicron BA.1 before it peaked in the UK. AND we built natural immunity to it (Yes immigrants from South Africa in this corner of Phoenix)
11. Next we all caught Omicron BA.2
12. Then Omicron BA.3 which was a breeze after the first two.
13. Then we caught Omicron BA.4
14. Then we caught Omicron BA.5
15. Then more recently we caught BQ.1
16. Followed by BQ1.1 within 2 weeks
17. Then we caught and fought off BF.7 (large Asian population in the neighborhood)

The vaxxed can't fathom catching this many strains of COVID, but the ENTIRE neighborhood has already earned their natural immunity. I'd say roughly 40% is completely unvaxxed.

Still waiting AND READY to catch one of the XBB strains to build natural immunity. Yes, bring it on

Survival of the fittest.

Here in the UK they pester you with letters, emails and text messages to get your booster. My most recent letter said it was time to get my ‘annual’ covid booster. I ignore it all, I had three and now no more. It doesn’t stop you catching it, it doesn’t stop you passing covid on, it doesn’t stop you getting ill, doesn’t stop you ending up in hospital, ICU or dying. So what actually is the point. It doesn’t even contribute to herd immunity. They can’t guilt me, I could still kill granny with covid even if myself and her are vaccinated.

The only thing this ‘free’ booster seems to do really well is affect some of the younger population in a negative way, more of a risk than the disease for some. You have to wonder when the ‘cure’ is worse than the disease maybe it’s time to rethink.

If my own immune system can’t cope with a mild version of the flu then I may as well give up now, if you keep yourself healthy and eat well. For me that means no bread, pasta, rice, processed food, sugar, seed oils or alcohol, (your choices are up to you) then you shouldn’t put yourself in that dangerous category of having underlying conditions where your immune system is compromised. (Obviously there are people with compromised immune systems that are beyond their own control)

But this ‘free’ jab does make a lot of very rich people a lot richer at our expense.

a reply to: MapMistress

I suppose time will be the great revealer in this whole vaccination vs. covid thing!

We'll all soon know the truth...everyday we get a little closer to knowing and that seems to scare a lot of people! I'm unvaccinated...so let's hope I made a better decision and I don't die from the vaccination that everyone took that was supposed to cure/lesson the symptoms of covid!

There seems to be all sorts of geographic, socioeconomic, enviromental, demographical, etc...reasons behind all sorts of different causes and effects to the virus and to the vaccine...truth is...nobody really knows yet! We will though...believe that...we will find out and I just hope I'm on the right side when it all comes out in the wash!