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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That means everyone on earth will have it in just over a month. We're doooooomed!
The patient didn’t even know he had it!!! Was asymptomatic. Geez…
What an adorable cutie! So happy you had 16 joyous years with your pup.
“Ok, I probably should put the /sarcasm tag in my previous comment. Sorry about that. :-)”
LOL it’s all good. Just been seeing a lot of pro lockdown people here lately….
K
Yes I think the public has moved on from covid.
No flu, no car accidents, no ODs, no heart attacks, no cancer…
Blah, blah, blah.
Cough, cough, bullcrap.
Yo globalist progressive woketards, take your covid and shove it up your damn ass.
Seems like no symptoms either. Gotta get tested to know ya got it.
I got my first viewing of a return Karen last night.
We finished volleyball and we’re walking down the steps.
Halfway down, I look up and see a masked woman.
She waited until we got to the bottom to use the steps.
How do such cowards live?
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