#COVID-19 variants

[fixing-bad-posts]

be on the lookout for symptoms of covid the respiratory virus

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source on hospitalizations: - government of canada - cbc news

[faggotfungus]

I've been seeing tags like these for a while now, "x gave me couvid" or "I think I have couvid," and I've never understood how they're supposed to be funny. Congratulations, you've allowed yourself to be fooled into making a joke out of a virus that continues to disable and kill people daily 👏😀

[thegeminisage]

i hope everyone who voted third party is really happy :) i hope they're all really pleased today and really felt like they made their voices heard and that electing trump was worth saving their precious little feelings :) i'm really glad they didn't have to be adults long enough to hold their noses and vote because feeling good is way more important than doing good :) i hope they got what they wanted :)

actually i hope they all die, as a direct result of his presidency, so that we don't have to pander to them next election cycle, if there IS a next election cycle. "but you can't just say you hope people die!" sure i can! third party voters obviously want me and my disabled mom to die. they want gay and trans people to die. they want women and immigrants and palestinians and people of color to die. what's the problem? i'd say i hope they die in the big glorious revolution they promised but if they can't put up and shut up long enough to get their asses to a ballot box there's no way we're gonna see them firebombing the government or attending a protest. they'll just sit at home and wait for somebody else to do it, the same way they sat at home and waited for somebody else to elect harris. and i hope nobody suffers more in the next four or more years than them. but why worry, right? both candidates are the same! i'm sure they'll be fine!

also lmao at everyone like "uwu ok guys take a deep breath have a calming cup of tea and do some self care tell people you love them" self care and loving people isn't going to keep him out of office. we had our chance to do that and we blew it because leftists want to feel righteous and pure. like definitely don't kill yourself or anything (unless you're a third party voter, in which case the sooner the better) but don't fucking dress it up. all you're doing is checking out. and who can blame you! sounds like the only solid plan tbh.

[disabled-pixie]

Covid isn't over! We're now going into an endemic! It will continue to evolve and make new variants, each more deadly than the last. I know people will say, "It will only kill the already disabled and elderly." Thanks for condemning my life and thousands of others to death because you wanted to go back to "normal life" and didn't do the bare minimum of getting vaccinated!

[covid-safer-hotties]

‘Playing COVID roulette’: Some infected by FLiRT variants report their most unpleasant symptoms yet - Published July 8, 2024

As the summer travel season picks up, COVID cases and hospitalizations are rising in Los Angeles County — and some of those recently reinfected are finding their latest bout to be the worst yet.

There are no signs at this point that the latest coronavirus variants are producing more severe illness, either nationally or in California.

But some doctors say this latest COVID rise challenges a long-held myth: Although new COVID infections are often mild compared with a first brush with the disease, they still can cause severe illness. Even if someone doesn’t need to visit the emergency room or be hospitalized, people sometimes describe agonizing symptoms.

“The dogma is that every time you get COVID, it’s milder. But I think we need to keep our minds open to the possibility that some people have worse symptoms,” said Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, a UC San Francisco infectious diseases expert.

Each time you get COVID, he said, is “kind of like playing COVID roulette.”

This underscores the need for caution during summer travel and activities, even though the overall risk remains relatively mild.

Read the full article and join in the conversation at our covid board:

[nancykhemchandani]

Understanding JN.1 COVID-19 Variant: Impact, Vaccines, and Concern

Explore the impact of JN.1 COVID-19 variant, vaccine efficacy, and expert insights. Stay informed and safe amid evolving situations.

[ricisidro]

Covid infections are growing in nearly all states -- with the sharpest increases in the West, according to CDC data. The FLiRT and LB.1 variants are most common.

#SARSCov2

#COVID19 #Omicron #FLIRTvariant

#LB1

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/07/03/covid-rising-kp2-flirt-lb1/

[spooniestrong]

Wastewater levels continue to increase in all four regions of the United States, and the national average continues to increase as well. Although some public health departments are warning their communities, not every government agency across the country is similarly sharing this important information. It is important that we hold them accountable, especially when the risk of an infection is increasing. 

The current variant landscape remains a mix of nearly equally dominant strains since the last variant update we gave on July 22, 2023 (CDC now updates every 2 weeks). EG.5 nicknamed “Eris,” a descendant of XBB, is growing in proportion and has become the dominant strain at 17.3% and XBB.1.16 is now the second most dominant strain, representing 15.6% of infections. Due to local health departments being no longer obligated to share data as a result of the end of the public health emergency, the CDC has limited its regional-level reporting of variant proportions through its Nowcast estimates, currently available for only three out of ten regions.

[Source: The People's CDC]

[spacedocmom]

Doctor Beverly Crusher @SpaceDocMom I hope you have a nice Halloween but also remember that fun treats and safety masks are for any time! emojis: lollipop, candy, Jack-o-lantern, masked x 5, black heart, blue heart 1:43 PM · Oct 31, 2023

[arctic-hands]

Out of curiosity, are there any variants going around where there are no respiratory symptoms but there is heavy fatigue? neither theta and I have any resp symptoms or fevers or anything, but we've been so dead tired that nothing's getting done. We're both chronically ill and disabled, but it's weird for both of us to be this tired and flaring at the same time

[mrsmarlasinger]

Reblog for results and tell me more in the tags!! If you haven't had COVID, don't vote—just reblog it with a reference tag so you can see the results when it closes.

This is NOT a remotely scientific poll, so please don't take it too seriously or get too technical with it. I'm just curious whether smelling smoke/fire that isn't really there is a common symptom for COVID survivors. Since I had omicron in June 2022, it has happened to me several times.

(Also, please forgive me for making the poll USA-centric—I chose the timeline I was most familiar with as a US American myself. If you're not American, absolutely feel free to vote.)

[kimberlychapman]

SciShow new video: Does Covid Cause Cancer?

Short answer: probably.

Long answer with tons of very current info and addressing the semantic issues with the question: see video link below.

It hasn't gone away and other very recent studies have shown that subsequent infections do indeed increase risk factors for other diseases including long covid and susceptibility to further covid infections. There is no current vaccine for covid that reduces spread, just impact, and even then new variants evade some vaccines. So it's worth getting the vaccine and being as boosted as possible, but you're still getting it, spreading it, and possibly suffering the long-term effects of it even while vaccinated.

So mask up, outdoors and indoors, anywhere where there's other people around. A crowded beer garden or concert is not safe. It lingers in the air for about two hours, so if you go into an empty restaurant you might still be sitting in the previous diner's breath cloud. Lifting your mask for photos, drinking, eating, etc. allows the air around you into the mask, and the places where people lift their mask "for just a second" are where everyone does that and more likely to have more covid in the air.

Masks are variant proof. A well-fitting N95/KN95/FFP2 or higher at all times around other people is how you protect yourself and others.

Not masking = not intersectional. And quite possibly increasing your risk factors for a pile of cancers over the next couple of decades.

Spread the word, not the germ.

[gwydionmisha]

"The variant was identified in China in February 2023 and was first detected in the United States in April. It is a descendant of the Omicron variant XBB.1.9.2 and has one notable mutation that helps it to evade antibodies developed by the immune system in response to earlier variants and vaccines. That advantage may be why EG.5 has become the dominant strain worldwide, and it could be one reason Covid cases have been rising again.

That mutation “may mean that more people are susceptible because the virus can escape a little bit more of that immunity,” Dr. Pekosz said."

"Data released this week on X (formerly Twitter) by scientists in China showed that BA.2.86 is so different from previous versions of the virus that it easily escapes antibodies produced in response to earlier infections — even more than EG.5 does. The data (which have not yet been published or peer-reviewed) suggest that the updated vaccine will be less effective against it, too."

Wear your mask.