#omicron covid

[tomorrowusa]

Get caught up with COVID-19 boosters before "worm brain" RFK Jr. gets the nod from the GOP Senate to re-infect the country.

Like influenza, COVID-19 is here to stay. It's not like some bad fashion from a few years ago which is gone for good.

Being infected with some variants can provide less protection against re-infection than others. We're looking at you, omicron!

Using population-wide data from Qatar, researchers found that a COVID-19 infection from a pre-omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 (such as alpha or delta) yielded around 80 percent protection from reinfection with another pre-omicron variant—and that level of protection lasted over the course of at least a year. But, things changed in late 2021 with the emergence of omicron, which still reigns supreme today. According to the data, an infection with omicron provided an initial protection of nearly 80 percent between the first three to six months after infection, but that protection rapidly declined. Between nine months and a year, protection fell to around 27.5 percent, then dropped to a negligible 5 percent after a year.

[ ... ] In the US, the future of annual vaccine updates may be in question, however. Prominent anti-vaccine advocate and conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is poised to become the country's top health official, pending Senate confirmation next week. In 2021, as omicron was rampaging through the country for the first time, Kennedy filed a petition with the Food and Drug Administration to revoke access and block approval of all current and future COVID-19 vaccines.

Get the latest COVID booster NOW. And be nice to Canada and Mexico in case you can't get updated boosters in the US later during the Trump-Musk régime.

[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/

[eeyes]

im still addicted to voice callign on character ai

[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.)

[lovely-v]

Ok futurama covid episode is a little taxing but I gotta give them credit for the omicron variant joke

[yemme]

WEAR YOUR FUCKING MASKS. IF YOU DON'T CARE ABOUT YOUR LIFE, AT LEAST PROTECT THOSE WHO ARE AROUND YOU. PEOPLE ARE STILL DYING. D-E-A-D, DEAD.

[brightsuzaku]

GUESS WHO IS DISEASED!!!

ya that's right me, ya boy

I live at home, and a family member tested positive, so it was only a matter of time, lol.

[beenbettercomic]

"Unknown Variants"

It's been a while since I knew the name of the current variant(s).

This comic made me fix that.

There's some patrons in this strip. The patron with a link to share is Kat d. They're an amazing gamer with a great Instagram that you should be following.

If you would like to be featured in strip, become a patron!

-Jimmy Purcell.

[vizthedatum]

This is a brief vent and tangential aside about the healthcare hype surrounding naming some of the current trending and contagious COVID-19 variants, the "FLiRT" variants (of course, please stay safe this summer (2024) with COVID-19).

Linking my Substack article about this, which gets updated with corrections

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Here are some highlights of this post (the TLDR):

- It's a vent about naming the FLiRT COVID-19 variants (a well-known stereotype that scientists like to make acronyms or catchy names).

- It's an explanation of how the naming FLiRT came to be.

- I'm bothered and irked because, in an attempt to distinguish variants, "FLiRT" doesn't. Additionally, it makes light of an ongoing pandemic.

- I really am not critiquing the person or people who came up with the name; I'm more upset about the name (and its playful connotations) catching on in the media and becoming a part of our ever-growing COVID-19 zeitgeist.

- I added some very brief (potentially useful?) insight at the end of my vent about how vaccine development should focus more on KP.2 and KP.3's F456L mutation rather than the JN.1 strain.

[disasterhimbo]

I’m really sad I have to wait until [unknown date] to see The Boy and the Heron because it’s only being released in theaters and it’s not safe for me to go to the theater anymore :/

[rjmbaboonbooks]

Daily Comic Journal: December 2, 2021: "A Virus From Another Planet?"

For those of you who’ve never seen the animated show “Futurama” (and if you haven’t, why not? It’s great!) Lrrr is the bombastic villain who rules the planet Omicron Persei 8. Lrrr is voiced by the voice actor Maurice LaMarche and every time Lrrr appears on the show he announces who he is. “I am Lrrr! Ruler of the planet Omicron Persei 8!” I’ve heard that so many times it’s burned into my brain.…

[ricisidro]

It's summer in the U.S., and RSV and flu have come and gone. But, as ever, COVID-19 is different. Even though the pandemic may be behind us, SARS-CoV-2 is surging again in this country.

#Omicron #FLIRTvariant #KP2 #KP3

Here's what to know about the current spike in COVID-19:

https://time.com/6996203/covid-19-symptoms-flirt-variants/

[intelligentchristianlady]

"All of us wish this was behind us, but it’s not. Facing that fact this virus, in one version or another, will be with us for many years to come, rather than denialism and complacency, is critical."

This is a long article, but it contains what you want to know, if you want to know about BA.2.86

[unrestrainedbalderdash]

Ah fuck it feels like I've got Covid again