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No new variants emerged from China’s Covid outbreak, study finds
nbcnews ^ | 02/08/2023 | Jennifer Jett

Posted on 02/08/2023 8:09:31 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

HONG KONG — Analysis of Covid-19 cases in Beijing suggests that no new variants emerged from China’s recent outbreak, according to a study published Wednesday.

Facing rare mass unrest after nearly three years of strict “zero-Covid” policies, the Chinese government dropped most restrictions on Dec. 7. The sudden change unleashed the coronavirus over the winter on a population of 1.4 billion people who had barely been exposed to it, raising fears that the outbreak could produce a new variant of concern and leading dozens of countries, including the United States, to impose testing and other curbs on travelers from China.

But the Chinese-funded study, which was published in The Lancet, found that of 413 sampled infections in Beijing, all belonged to existing Covid variants. The most common were omicron subvariants BA.5.2 and BF.7, which together accounted for more than 90% of local infections.

The samples were randomly selected for genomic sequencing from a larger group of 2,881 high-quality samples collected in Beijing from Nov. 14 to Dec. 20, 2022.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: china; covid; new; variants
Oh noes! Media is mad! Masks and lockdowns forever! (S)
1 posted on 02/08/2023 8:09:31 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Government mandated “vaccines”, masks, and lockdowns were a notable recent example of normal losing to crazy.


2 posted on 02/08/2023 8:13:27 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

So what happened to the new “mega dangerous super collosal unavoidable insurrsctionist variant” that was in Australia that was supposed to wipe out humanity according to the left?


3 posted on 02/08/2023 8:25:13 AM PST by Bob434
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To: ChicagoConservative27

China didn’t use the MRNA vaccines. That’s why they have no subvariants.


4 posted on 02/08/2023 8:25:28 AM PST by READINABLUESTATE
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To: ChicagoConservative27

My daughter and son in law are recovering from a severe case of Covid...It took my daughter 17 days until she got a neg..


5 posted on 02/08/2023 8:26:14 AM PST by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“ The most common were omicron subvariants BA.5.2 and BF.7, which together accounted for more than 90% of local infections.”
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Jeez, those variants are SOOOO yesterday in the U.S. They’re down to only a minuscule 0.6% of current American Covid infections and falling fast according to the CDC’s variant tracking process.

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


6 posted on 02/08/2023 8:28:43 AM PST by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA. -PRO-MAX)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Variant seem to come from the pills given to treat Covid in the West.


7 posted on 02/08/2023 8:53:27 AM PST by MMusson
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To: House Atreides

What happened to all the news stories of massive COVID infection rate in China. Disappeared?


8 posted on 02/08/2023 10:32:47 AM PST by OHPatriot (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: OHPatriot

they floated away...


9 posted on 02/08/2023 10:34:47 AM PST by heavy metal (smiling improves your face value and makes people wonder what the hell you're up to... 😁)
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To: READINABLUESTATE

Good news from China—for a change.


10 posted on 02/08/2023 11:16:46 AM PST by Forward the Light Brigade ( Ride to the sound of the Guns!)
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