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submitted 1 year ago by girlfreddy@lemmy.ca to c/canada@lemmy.ca

The variant is called EG.5 and is a descendant of Omicron.

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention estimated that EG.5 accounted for roughly 17.3 per cent β€” or one in six β€” of new COVID-19 cases in the U.S. in the past two weeks.

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[-] TheModerateTankie@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

The idea that reinfections would be benign was inspired by politics and vibes. There's plenty of evidence that reinfections are bad. It's a virus that can damage all our organs, brain included, cause micro clots, vascular damage, and harm the immune system itself by trashing our t-cells, and it's a virus we can catch multiple times a year and is mutating so rapidly we are having trouble knowing what to target when we develop yearly vaccines.

It's kind of a problem if reinfections are bad for us when we are counting on perpetual infections to "build our immunity".

US dept. of Health and Human Services https://twitter.com/HHSGov/status/1659589815887712256

New Zealand government covid updates https://nitter.kavin.rocks/covid19nz/status/1670943608428539905#m

Another study showing cumulative risk upon reinfection https://nitter.kavin.rocks/i/status/1688769749868490752

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