Holy freakin' jeez, guys...XBB.1.5 is already at like 30% of most recent random sequencing 👀

And it hasn't even filtered out through the whole country yet.

Graph can be found at Tableau.com by Raj Rajnarayanan.

https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/raj.rajnarayanan/viz/USAVariantDB/VariantDashboard

#XBB15
#XBB
#COVID

GUYS

Please be careful going into 2023...COVID lineage XBB.1.5 is a freaking monster both in immune escape and in severity.

it's 120% faster than the fastest previous lineage (BQ.1, BQ.1.1) so #MaskUp and clean your air!!

#COVID
#COVID19
#XBB
#XBB15

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1/ From the outset, it is very important to recognise that a humanitarian catastrophe is currently unfolding in China. Analysis of this situation is not incompatible with recognising the horror of the situation.

2/ In short, I am well aware that behind this analysis is human suffering on a vast scale.

#COVID
#COVID19
#China

This isn't going to work.

#COVID
#COVID19

From 🐘:

You can get 4 more free COVID19 tests this winter by going to https://special.usps.com/testkits.

Redrafted to include hashtags.

#COVID
#COVID19
#testkits
#freetestkits

GUYS

You might wanna wear a mask when you're not at home for the next few months 💀

#COVID
#COVID19
#MaskUp !

Wow, XBB.1 is FAST, tho

#COVID
#COVID19
#XBB
#BQ11
#BQ1

Every time someone says "tHe paNdeMic iS oVeR!!" an Omicron virion gets a set of Delta wings 🤦

#COVID

Furiously trying to re-find my favorite #COVID researchers, scientists etc. on anywhere else except The Bird as it probably doesn't have a lot of time left...but dayum it's hard to find people on #Mastodon. 🐘 The layers of interaction are a tad obtuse.

I love the idea of decentralization but as long as one or a few ppl are making decisions about what stays or goes, is it really decentralized? 🤔

What I like about here is not pigeon-holing interests to ONE thing your server is based on.

I just can't get out of my head that one of the reasons the #elections turned out as such is because the red team's been killing themselves with #COVID for two years.

Willfully, two years. Ignorantly, maybe three.

That's what happens when you gleefully socially murder your own people out of baseless hatred thinking they'll go and infect and kill off everyone who doesn't worship or look like you.

Immune systems trashed. Damage done. They'll keep dying at exponential rates now. #politics

Another interesting #COVID thread from The Flaming Bird. There is no such thing as "immunity debt". The immune system is more like a roll call of mugshots rather than a muscle that atrophies when not used.

You do not get everyone healthy by getting everyone sick. Masses of people getting disabling illness at once is called a PLAGUE and not health.

#politics

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1589103107048624129.html

Neonatal #COVID looking very concerning. Increased chance of newborn liver injury.
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https://www.nature.com/articles/s41390-022-02266-7