Experts on June 15 recommended updating the COVID-19 vaccines due to the current slate performing worse against the XBB variant and its sublineages. Advisers to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) unanimously voted to recommend the FDA clear updated shots, less than one year after the vaccines were already updated due to concerns over […]
The COVID-19 Omicron XBB.1.5 subvariant nearly doubled in prevalence over the past week, data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) showed on Friday, with it now comprising over 40 percent of new cases in the United States. Specifically, for the week ending Dec. 31, CDC data puts the Omicron XBB.1.5 subvariant as making […]
Southwest Airlines canceled close to 3,000 flights on Dec. 26. Find out what travelers have to say about it as they try to navigate the cancellation chaos. Reports from Chinese hospitals are raising an unexpected concern. Is Omicron to blame for the virus surge? Or is there a sub-variant spreading throughout the country? Arizona Secretary of […]
Is Omicron to blame for the virus surge wreaking havoc in China? Or is there another sub-variant spreading alongside it? Some patients show symptoms that don’t usually appear when sick with Omicron. But that did show up widely in Wuhan—when the pandemic first broke out.
Over 130 sublineages of Omicron were detected in China within three months. That figure comes from a Chinese state media report published last week—citing Xu Wenbo, the head of the National Institute for Viral Disease Control and Prevention.
COVID-19 cases have been increasing in China, since the ruling communist regime eased its “zero-COVID” restrictions on Dec. 7. Netizens have been reporting that hospitals and mortuaries are being overwhelmed by demand, particularly in nine provinces where the relatively new Omicron subvariants BQ.1 and BQ.1.1 have been reported to be spreading quickly. On Dec. 14, China’s Center for […]
The COVID-19 Omicron subvariants BQ.1 and BQ.1.1 have risen to comprise over half of new coronavirus infections in the United States in the past week, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The CDC’s weekly variant update shows that BQ.1.1 has been responsible for 29.4 percent of new closely followed by BQ.1 which accounted for […]
There isn’t enough data to recommend COVID-19 booster jabs for Omicron subvariants over the original virus, the World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) panel of vaccine experts said on Tuesday. Four variant-containing mRNA vaccines that either include bivalent Omicron subvariants BA.1 or BA.4–5 in combination with the “ancestral virus” have been authorized for use as booster doses. The Strategic […]
This month, the CDC released detailed data on the effectiveness of the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines against Omicron subvariants BA.4/BA.5. Turns out, not only are they less effective right after injection, but the boosters’ effectiveness plunged dramatically after 150 days. Will this become the argument for Americans to get boosted every three months? In this episode […]
In September, a new version of the COVID-19 boosters became available to the public without any clinical testing. They are called bivalent vaccines and are being offered by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna. Bivalent means they contain not just one mRNA that codes for a protein from a viral strain, but two types. The first mRNA makes […]
Geese, fish, and diesel trucks must all test for COVID-19 in China. China’s COVID policy continues to hammer in anxiety and financial trouble for the country. I speak with Ryan Girdusky, author of “They’re Not Listening,” on the rise of populism in the United States. We compare that to China’s political state and discuss what […]
We talk to an expert about the new Moderna COVID-19 booster jab and whether a jab targeting both Omicron and the original strain of the virus is needed. Statistics show 80 percent of deaths from COVID-19 had at least three other medical conditions mentioned on the death record. Official figures show UK workers saw their […]
The protection afforded by surviving COVID-19 was strong against the latest virus subvariants, including the one currently dominant in the United States, scientists in Qatar found. People who were infected with Omicron, a variant of SARS-CoV-2, had 76.1 percent protection against symptomatic reinfection from BA.4 and BA.5 and 80 percent shielding from any reinfection, regardless […]
We revisit the ideologies behind the 2020 riots. Will the summer of violence return in the near future? I discuss this with Dr. Douglas Groothuis at the Western Conservative Summit. China’s COVID-19 theatrics continue, as Shanghai’s so-called reopening met with roadblocks and even more problems. Seniors are barred from restrooms, and people can’t leave their […]
A new subtype of the highly transmissible Omicron variant has been found near Shanghai, where residents are currently under a lockdown. The new iteration of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus was reported by municipal authorities in Suzhou, a city that borders Shanghai, on April 2. The strain was isolated from a local infected patient […]
Individuals who are double-vaccinated or recovered from COVID-19 have “virtually no protection” against the Omicron variant, according to a peer-reviewed study. The research, led by Rudolf Valenta of the Medical University of Vienna, found that only people who had received the third dose of a COVID-19 vaccine can form antibodies that could partially block Omicron, […]
The Biden administration has purchased 600,000 treatments courses of a new COVID-19 monoclonal antibody drug that data shows works against the omicron variant of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus. Known as bebtelovimab, the drug is manufactured by Eli Lilly and Company, an American pharmaceutical company headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. It is used in the treatment of mild […]
