Posted on 08/22/2023 3:27:46 PM PDT by JonPreston
A second American tested positive for the new highly-mutated BA.2.86 Covid variant that has been causing global alarm over its rapid transmission.A second American tested positive for the new highly-mutated BA.2.86 Covid variant that has been causing global alarm over its rapid transmission.
The positive case was detected in an asymptomatic patient in Virginia who was tested August 10 after returning to the US from Japan.
Scientists identified the case in a database that contains test samples from a small number of travelers entering the US. Independent experts told DailyMail.com they believe the new strain is spreading more widely and in more US states.
The positive case was detected in an asymptomatic patient in Virginia who was tested August 10 after returning to the US from Japan.
Scientists identified the case in a database that contains test samples from a small number of travelers entering the US. Independent experts told DailyMail.com they believe the new strain is spreading more widely and in more US states.
The new variant, also spotted in Michigan last week, is causing concern because it stems from an 'earlier branch' of the coronavirus, so it differs from the variants targeted by current vaccines.
That concern, combined with an uptick in positive tests across the US, has spooked an Atlanta college and the Hollywood studio Lionsgate into mandating face masks again. But while Covid rates are rising in the US — hospital admissions are up for the fifth week in a row — they remain at near-historic lows.
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Fauxy’s fault.
String him up.
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The sky is falling, the sky is falling!
We knew they would do it again...and again....and again.
I really hate the sheep in this society.
Time to break out my N95 masks again
Asymptomatic. In other words, as in no symptoms.
“But doctors on the ground say that while they are seeing an increase in patients with the virus, their symptoms are milder than at any point previously in the pandemic.”
It’s rare to see that statement in stories about this new variant. There’s no money/power in it if everyone knows this.
It truly is like the common cold, the fate of most corona virii. They peter out.
Same.
Liberals preparing to reboot their winning strategy.
A 2nd case, and that is considered spreading?
That’s two, as in 2 or II or ii, but not to or too. (I’m trying to be scientific.) It’s not one, but it was spread to another from one. There’s no doubt. It’s spreading. We are all doomed. Either kill yourself now or comply.
Alex Jones was right!
The scare narrative is ramping up right on schedule. Soon schools will be closing, companies will be sending their employees back to WFH, and everyone will be demanding money from the taxpayers. Then election procedures will have to be changed all for “the public health” crisis.
Uptake! Uptake! It's the only answer to Big Pharma's bottom line. Or they might become ill.....
Does this mean there will be no flu this year?
No symptoms but we are going to die!
Saying yhe virus is a “mutant” or “mutated” sounds scary. It simply means the virus has changed, which is what all viruses always do. And the change usually means the virus becomes less dangerous.
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OMG—the “cases” have doubled!
A ONE HUNDRED PERCENT INCREASE.
MSMers are wetting.
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