Jennifer Moore 😷Jul 18, 2025

Interesting thread from @mike_honey_, comparing different covid variants with what the death stats were doing at the time.

https://aus.social/@mike_honey_/114870961173351600

#covid #death #stats #CovidVariants

Mike Honey (@[email protected])

When you look at the weekly mortality and resulting excess deaths, the JN.1 "Pirola" wave of late-2022 – early-2023 stands out as a dramatic departure from the trend. Weekly excess deaths peaked at around +8,000 or +65%, and there were around 30,000 excess deaths in a 10-week wave . Then for the rest of 2023 and 2024, there were other anomalies driven by waves of COVID, sparked by new variants. But as the new variants were all derived from Pirola, their impact was mostly lower. However the XEC COVID wave in early 2025 combined with waning immunity and vaccination coverage to drive another significant spike in excess deaths, bucking the trend. 🧵

Aus.Social
Just IceMay 25, 2025

Latest Covid variants and outlook for UK summer

Christina Pagel on why there probably will be a Covid summer wave.

Independent SAGE

#CovidIsNotOver #Covid19UK
#SummerWave #CovidVariants

https://open.substack.com/pub/independentsage/p/latest-covid-variants-and-outlook

Latest Covid variants and outlook for UK summer

Christina Pagel on why there probably will be a Covid summer wave.

Independent SAGE continues
Mrs H SaxonMar 26, 2025
Does anyone have and advice which is the better vaccine for latest COVID variants. There is the new protein based Novavax or the older Pfizer and Moderna ones.
Thanks in advance.
#covid #covid19 #CovidIsNotOver #covidvaccines #CovidVaccination #covidvariants
skuaJan 18, 2025

@VickiWoodward
Those differences between wastewater and clinical are interesting.

Some naive explanations:
1. More relative abundance in clinical is due to greater severity of variant -> increased medical interaction.
2. Less relative abundance in clinical is due to variant being more active in the gut -> increase in wastewater.

If the aged care data showed variants then maybe we could see one of these explanations fitted with that better.

#CovidVariants #Covid

Christophe VeltsosOct 13, 2024
From Dr. Claire Taylor on the current Covid variant (XEC): Link to OP: threadreaderapp.com/thread/18454... #Covid #XEC #CovidVariants
Thread by @drclairetaylor on Thread Reader App

@drclairetaylor: @Sunny_Rae1 This strain is spreading like wildfire. It’s hitting people not infected since 2022 who thought they were immune. Like March 2022 dominos. Cue another half a million disabled in a few mo...…

Christophe VeltsosSep 22, 2024
If you follow the evolution of Covid variants, one of the top folks to read is Ryan Hisner (@LongDesertTrain). Here's Ryan's latest post on the rise of the XEC Covid variant: threadreaderapp.com/thread/18373... #XEC #Covid #Covid #CovidVariants

Thread by @LongDesertTrain on ...
Thread by @LongDesertTrain on Thread Reader App

@LongDesertTrain: I’ve mostly pooh-poohed the rise of XEC for 2 reasons: #1. Its spike is almost identical to the dominant KP.3.1.1 #2. I don’t think its advantage over KP.3.1.1 is large enough to make a significant...…

Houston Public MediaJun 26, 2024

New COVID variants have emerged as dominant strains as summer begins.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/health-science/2024/06/26/491828/what-you-need-to-know-about-covid-flirt-variants/

#HealthScience #News #COVIDVariants #COVID19 #FLiRT #FLiRTVariants

What you need to know about COVID FLiRT variants

The next boosters from Moderna and Pfizer will target FLiRT variant KP.2, which is a subvariant of JN.1. JN.1 is an Omicron subvariant, as was the XBB.1.5 strain, which was the target of last fall’s booster.

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CindyMay 18, 2024

#CDC #COVID 😷💉👋 🤔 💰💰💰

Everything's changing ... In my opinion, #pharmaceuticalcompanies can definitely afford to offer the #CovidVaccines free of charge, INDEFINITELY! They just don't want to any longer, because they are #corrupt and #greedy ... They've reached the end of their #altruism whether it was genuine or not.

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/4670459-cdc-ending-free-covid-vaccines-uninsured/

#CorporateCORRUPTION #CorporateGREED #LoveOfMoney #Covidisntover #CovidVariants #CovidBooster #CovidBoosters #CovidVaccine #CenterForDiseaseControl

CDC puts early end to free COVID vaccines for uninsured

A federal program providing free COVID-19 vaccines to uninsured and underinsured adults is shutting down this summer, before the fall rollout of updated vaccines to fight against the latest variants.  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said its Bridge Access Program will end in August because of a lack of funding. The program has provided over…

The Hill
CookieCatJan 28, 2024
Saw this image from #Pokémon the original series and decided to make a #Covid #Meme encouraging people to #MaskUp. In the case of #CovidVariants , you really don't want to catch any, let alone all of them.
bs2Oct 10, 2023
> ... the latest dominant COVID subvariants have a reproductive rate of around 18.6, tying or surpassing measles, the world’s most infectious viral disease... recent subvariants like BA.4 and BA.5 are the most immune-evasive yet, with the ability to dodge antibodies from both vaccines and prior infection.. decreasing the amount of attendees at gatherings.. can .. reduce transmission...
https://fortune.com/well/2022/07/09/can-you-get-covid-outside-outdoors-omicron-ba5-ba4/
#Covid19 #CovidVariants #R0 #Rnaught #Measles
/HT #RebeccaSolnit's FB post
Your COVID protection outside isn’t what it was in 2020. Here’s why it’s time to think more critically about outdoor gatherings

Greater transmissibility means greater transmissibility in any setting, indoors or outdoors—even if outside is still safer.

Fortune