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COVID-19: New 'FLiRT' Variants Now Most Dominant In US
Daily Voice ^ | 05/06/24 | Joe Lombardi

Posted on 05/06/2024 4:04:46 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

New so-called "FLiRT" COVID-19 variants have quickly become the most dominant in the United States, and authorities are monitoring their rise as summer approaches.

According to the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), one of the two members of the “FLiRT” group, KP.2, is now No. 1 among strains nationally, accounting for about 24.9 of all current infections.

The JN.1 strain had been dominant in the US before the emergence of KP.2. Both variants are offshoots of the highly contagious Omicron strain.

The No. 4 variant in the US, KP.1.1, which makes up 7.5 percent of cases nationwide, is also in the "FLiRT" family and closely related to KP.2.

Tire “It’s still early days, but the initial impression is that this variant (KP.2) is rather transmissible,” Dr. William Schaffner, professor of infectious diseases at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, told TODAY.com.


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: chinavirus; covid; covid19; donatefreerepublic; flirt; flirtcovid; jimknows; joindu; variant; weallknow

1 posted on 05/06/2024 4:04:46 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

I think I got the Flirt. I just tried to pick up the waitress in Applebee’s


2 posted on 05/06/2024 4:12:49 PM PDT by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: JonPreston

Since you have the flirt.....You probably want the JAB....


3 posted on 05/06/2024 4:18:22 PM PDT by Thomas Jerome
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To: SeekAndFind
Pour un Flirt Avec Toi (for a flirt with you)--Michel Delpech (1971)
A big hit in Europe which didn't chart in the US.
4 posted on 05/06/2024 4:19:44 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: SeekAndFind

How many Freepers are still falling for this?

Just the professional shills?


5 posted on 05/06/2024 4:20:09 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: SeekAndFind

Every Friday (when the dats is updated) I go in and check this variant tracking info. New variants are constantly emerging, become dominant and then get replaced by other subsequently emerging variants. This cycle will likely go on like this continuously.

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#variant-proportions


6 posted on 05/06/2024 4:25:11 PM PDT by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MAX)
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To: SeekAndFind

Not a single symptom mentioned or described.

I suppose this one is twice as dangerous.

It gives one a runny nose out of BOTH nostrils.

Horrifying...

.


7 posted on 05/06/2024 4:32:32 PM PDT by TLI (ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: SeekAndFind

All of these... “variants” are Coronaviruses. All of them. WE now know completely how to prevent infection without so called vaccines predicated on S-Proteins of 3 years ago.
The prevention is known and well circulated, freely available. So— whoopee here comes yet another variant, each one less lethal than the last- which is the known evolution of all coronaviruses ever known to be all the way back to the so called Spanish influenza.

Environmental reality for any variant is that it needs the hosts to LIVE so the bug can spread. That is the way of all of these.


8 posted on 05/06/2024 4:33:44 PM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: SeekAndFind

Gotta keep the con going.


9 posted on 05/06/2024 4:33:58 PM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Brandon's pronouns: Xi/Hur)
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To: TLI

I have a hang nail.....should prolly hit the emergency room


10 posted on 05/06/2024 4:34:21 PM PDT by Maskot (Put every dem/lib in prison........like yesterday!!! )
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To: 9YearLurker
Just the professional shills?

And they're not themselves "falling" for it. They're just selling it, prostituting themselves.

Ideally, if there were ever to be true reckoning over the development (by the U.S military/security state, that is) of SARS-COV-2 and the governmental response to the resulting pandemic, such a reckoning would come for the disinformation merchants as well. But I'm not holding my breath.

11 posted on 05/06/2024 4:36:43 PM PDT by DSH
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To: DSH

Agreed. Unless they somehow succeed in fooling themselves so they can live with themselves.


12 posted on 05/06/2024 4:39:49 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: JonPreston

Was she affected too? If so, congratulations. 🙂👍


13 posted on 05/06/2024 4:49:42 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: SeekAndFind

Of all things to call a disease.


14 posted on 05/06/2024 5:33:02 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: SeekAndFind

And yet this is the first time I heard of it.


15 posted on 05/06/2024 6:06:26 PM PDT by roving (Deplorable Listless Vessel Trumpist With Trumpitis and a Rainbow Bully)
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To: SeekAndFind

I’m holding out for the ‘co-bird-vid-flubola-emonkey-swine-pox’.


16 posted on 05/06/2024 7:29:18 PM PDT by dynachrome ("God grant I don't outlive my wits.")
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“It’s still early days, but the initial impression is that this variant (KP.2) is rather transmissible,” Dr. William Schaffner, professor of infectious diseases at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, told TODAY.com.

So you're saying there is still a chance I could get Covid, Doc?

17 posted on 05/06/2024 7:41:56 PM PDT by TigersEye (Our Republic is under seige by globalist Marxists. Hold fast!)
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