#omicron covid

[alertachiapas]

La nueva variante de Covid que predomina: Xibalbá

En la mayoría de los contagios del sureste mexicano ‘Xibalbá’ predomina; se trata de una mutación de Omicrón, igual que la conocida como ‘Perro del infierno’.

En la mayoría de los contagios del sureste mexicano ‘Xibalbá’ predomina; se trata de una mutación de Omicrón, igual que la conocida como ‘Perro del infierno’. Esta variante es la que domina actualmente el territorio de la Península de Yucatán, sin embargo ha presentado casos en el sureste del País. La variante conocida como Perro del Infierno ha presentado casos en Ciudad de México, Yucatán,…

[deweydecimalchickens]

Aaaand Wife has tested positive for Covid after five days of symptoms and two negative LFTs.

She will have been contagious before she had symptoms.

We could never wholly rely on LFTs for safety screening, but from Omicron onwards, they've been all but useless because you can be both symptomatic and contagious for days before they warn you.

We need to use our brains. I intend to self-isolate until it's run its course even though I'm not legally required to and I don't have a positive test yet, because I'm not a TOTAL SELFISH FUCKWIT. I may have to argue with work about this. So be it.

The pandemic isn't over just because people are bored and out of stamina.

[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/

[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

--

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 :/

[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/

[artemis-pendragon]

Just got my bivalent booster can't wait to get knocked directly on my ass all weekend

[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.…

[likeabxrdinflight]

I have a friend who's still highly cautious around covid because she's high risk but she keeps posting all these screenshots of tweets about covid studies on her instagram in an attempt to convince people that covid is still very dangerous

and it's not that covid isn't still potentially dangerous, but one quick google search has allowed me to find every study that she has referenced, and without fail, every single one of them has been working with pre-vaccine, pre-omicron data. the most recent one she's posting about is about cardiac conditions post covid, and wouldn't you know, the entire sample was taken from people who caught covid between march 2020 and january 2021.

this was pre-vaccine, pre-omicron, hell, it was pre-delta variant (remember that one). this was the wild type covid, which our bodies were least immune to. it was the type that was most known to be causing cardiac symptoms and blood clots. besides delta, it was the most deadly. and no one was vaccinated.

so yes, in that group of people, who were unfortunate enough to catch covid during that period, the results of this study are likely very valid- they are at increased risk of heart disease. and that should be talked about and studied more and if those people end up with cardiac symptoms they need to be receiving proper care.

but we should not be assuming, without further study, that these risks are still the same for those who've been vaccinated, or who only caught covid after the omicron variant became dominant (the omicron lineages have been pretty different from the wild type and other pre-omicron variants, so it's worth noting that). like this is a study that must be replicated with a post-vaccine, post-omicron sample before you will even remotely convince me that those cardiac risks are the same as they were before.

and it is driving me crazy that my friend, who is also fucking trained in how to read science, is posting this shit seemingly without looking at the actual papers or thinking about the context at all. like it is driving me absolutely bananas. these posts aren't even like, direct quotes from the papers, they're screenshots of randos on twitter talking about these papers, as if twitter rando knows jack shit about what they're talking about. like it's all well and good to still care about covid but could you at least do it with less of the fear mongering?

[jayjuno]

If you never stopped wearing a mask- 

Thanks for not jumping off the bridge with everyone else.