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Update for 5/6/2024!

Good Morning SARS2PAians!

Yes I have an update today aaaaand unfortunately that's kinda never a good thing. You DON'T want to hear from me here!

(I am asking you once again....to please make this hobby of mine obsolete 🙏😔 Filter the air, be aware of social contacts, wear a quality respirator, and wash hands for the gastro stuff.)

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VOCs

We are dealing with FLiRT now, but there are two groups of incoming variants that are becoming concerningly successful in other countires including right next door in Canada.: https://ibb.co/fkG3gpg

One is an earlier-new group consisting of JN.1.32 and KP.3.

Another, far off-new yet, is KW.1 and its child, KW.1.1.

All of these variants have been proven faster than FliRT in Australia, UK, etc. KP.3 is exceptionally fast.

🔴Due to antigenic drift, vaccines and previous infection are NOT as effective to protect you with these upcoming variants.

🔴This does NOT mean vaccines don't work, so do not go spreading that. (You should also be mightily shunned for spreading that.)

Again: Vaccines are safe and effective...but these incoming variants are starting to yet again DRIFT TOO FAR AWAY from the current XBB vaccines.

I've highlighted the upcoming concerning variants in teal, as opposed to the FLiRT group which is in pink. KW.1.1 isn't above the fold yet nationally at 0.16% so I made a note on the image so I remember to keep track of this number.

Nationally, JN.1.7 and JN.1 are a tthe top of the board. JN.1.32 at 2.23% and KP.3 also at 2.23%. KW.1 at a little under half a percent. These numbers might be higher in actual meatspace because there is not nearly enough labwork/sequencing available to make laser-focused predictions.: https://ibb.co/bRpvDP7

In PA, we do not have group 2 of the far-off variants yet here but we do have KP.2. Gotta watch this one.: https://ibb.co/3kPMBwM

In NY/NJ, whoa, KP.3 already clocking in at over 3%, in the top 10 of random sequencing already. I haven't been watching this one so when I have more time I'll go back and check this one out.: https://ibb.co/qM7C4CY

KP.2 already at over 10%. That's fast, and antigenic drift is absolutely not helping here as any protection we might have had against this new stuff is starting to slip away.

We might be in for a bump up in numbers this spring, as something similar last year happened too.

Just giving everyone a heads-up on what we might be in for this spring/summer.

We can keep it in control by practicing some very comon-sense, easy things!

Have a safe spring!! 💐💐💐

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#WearAMask #CleanTheAir #WashHands #StayHomeIfSick !