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| Deadly threat from a new strain of coronavirus. |
We are back to an endemic stage for the time being. There is no more Dr. Anthony Fauci around to bring out warnings about the coronavirus. The Republican-controlled Congress if they figure out a Republican House Speaker vows to oppose vaccine mandates and call for investigations into the Biden Administration for the handling of the pandemic.
They will not call out Washed Up 45 who literally dropped the ball on handling the coronavirus pandemic. He was warned as far back in October 2019 about the possibility of a deadly norovirus originating out of China.
The World Health Organization has gave a warning about a new transmissible variant of coronavirus.
President Joe Biden was informed about it. He and the U.S. government are preparing for it as well as the possible gridlock and obstruction from Republicans.
The new XBB.1.5 variant of COVID is the "most transmissible" yet detected, a senior World Health Organization (WHO) official has warned.
The variant, which is a sub-variant of Omicron, is confirmed to be spreading in 25 countries, including the UK and US.
Dr Maria Van Kerkhove, the WHO's COVID-19 technical lead, told a press conference on Wednesday: "It is the most transmissible sub variant that has been detected yet.
"The reason for this are the mutations that are within... this sub variant of Omicron, allowing this virus to adhere to the cell and replicate easily.
"And we are concerned about its growth advantage, in particular in some countries in Europe and in the US in North America, particularly the northeast part of the United States where XBB.1.5 has rapidly replaced other circulating variants."
The new XBB.1.5 variant of COVID is the "most transmissible" yet detected, a senior World Health Organization (WHO) official has warned.
The variant, which is a sub-variant of Omicron, is confirmed to be spreading in 25 countries, including the UK and US.
Dr Maria Van Kerkhove, the WHO's COVID-19 technical lead, told a press conference on Wednesday: "It is the most transmissible sub variant that has been detected yet.
"The reason for this are the mutations that are within... this sub variant of Omicron, allowing this virus to adhere to the cell and replicate easily.
"And we are concerned about its growth advantage, in particular in some countries in Europe and in the US in North America, particularly the northeast part of the United States where XBB.1.5 has rapidly replaced other circulating variants."
Mike Ryan, WHO's emergencies director, told a briefing in Geneva: "We believe the current numbers being published from China underrepresent the true impact of the disease in terms of hospital admissions, in terms of ICU admissions, particularly in terms of death."
He added the WHO believed the Chinese government's definition for death is "too narrow".
Late last month, China narrowed its definition for classifying deaths as COVID-related, counting only those involving COVID-caused pneumonia or respiratory failure, raising eyebrows among world health experts.
The WHO says deaths should be attributed to COVID-19 if they result from a "clinically compatible illness" in a patient with a probable or confirmed infection, and no other unrelated cause of death - like trauma - is involved.
Ryan added: "We still do not have complete data."
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