Covid isn’t going away anytime soon….
It seeks to adapt to live on…..
New strains seem to be weaker but more infectious….
The coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, has had billions of chances to reconfigure itself as it has spread across the planet, and it continues to evolve, generating new variants and subvariants at a clip that has kept scientists on their toes. Two-and-a-half years after it first spilled into humans, the virus has repeatedly changed its structure and chemistry in ways that confound efforts to bring it fully under control.
And it’s not showing signs of settling down into a drowsy old age. Even with all the changes so far, it still has abundant evolutionary space to explore, according to virologists who are tracking it closely. What that means in practical terms is that a virus that’s already extremely contagious could become even more so.
“This virus has probably got tricks we haven’t seen yet,” virologist Robert F. Garry of Tulane University said. “We know it’s probably not quite as infectious as measles yet, but it’s creeping up there, for sure.”
The latest member of the rogue’s gallery of variants and subvariants is the ungainly named BA.2.12.1, part of the omicron gang. Preliminary research suggests it is about 25 percent more transmissible than the BA.2 subvariant that is currently dominant nationally, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC said the subvariant has rapidly spread in the Northeast in particular, where it accounts for the majority of new infections.
“We have a very, very contagious variant out there. It is going to be hard to ensure that no one gets covid in America. That’s not even a policy goal,” President Biden’s new covid-19 coordinator, Ashish Jha, said in his inaugural news briefing Tuesday….
There were people saying this(all of us are going to “get it”) at the beginning of the pandemic.
So there’s really nothing new here.
Get vaccinated and live life .Thats about all we can do.
Yes thsi HAS been said over and OVER….
Latest figure for incoulations”
66%….
Americans want the virus restrictions gone…
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Offical’s are scared shitless to go back…Philly did for about 48 hours….
They dropped their mask mandate…
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Other places have them but NOBODY’s gonna nget in fights over it
People Don’t care much about anything else….
Oh, Some people still wear masks indoors
But
More and more do NOT….
Check your TV….
Everybody jammed together at big events….
White House officals dropping like fly’s with covid….
Your right….
‘It’s all we can do’…..
People just want get on with their lives….
BTW?….
New York City on Monday raised its COVID-19 alert level from “low” to “medium,” amid a rise in cases in the city.
The move did not trigger any major new restrictions, but it is a sign of the continued risk from the virus and an uptick in cases that has also been seen on a national level.
If the alert level rises again, to “high,” then the city will consider bringing back its mask mandate for indoor settings, according to New York’s color-coded system….
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