“Given the number of times this has happened already, it should come as little surprise that we’re now faced with yet another new subvariant of SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID.
This new subvariant is known as XFG (nicknamed “Stratus”) and the World Health Organization (WHO) designated it a “variant under monitoring” in late June. XFG is a subvariant of Omicron, of which there are now more than 1,000.”
“Two new variants are competing for dominance: NB.1.8.1 and XFG. We recently nicknamed NB.1.8.1 ‘Nimbus’, and it's pretty clear that XFG deserves a nickname as well. Keeping with the meteorological theme, XFG = ‘Stratus’.
Here's some more info about Nimbus and Stratus. 🧵
NB.1.8.1 is now here in the U.S.:
"Hong Kong authorities say that rates of COVID-19 in the city have climbed to the worst levels they have seen in at least a year, after a "significant increase" in reported emergency room visits and hospitalizations driven by COVID-19."
“Do you remember BA.3—the weakling cousin of BA.1 & BA.2 that seemed to take the worst from each & had weaker ACE2 binding than even the ancestral Wuhan Virus?
After 3 years, BA.3 is back.”
MASSIVE public health failure, and huge misinformation and propaganda win for both political parties.
“Half of Americans (49%) believe they'll never get COVID again, according to new polling from the Ipsos Consumer Tracker”
