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Has Cuba knocked covid on the head with a miracle vaccine?
Some time ago there was talk of a new vaccine (a protein subunit vaccine, called ‘Abdala’) Cuba was using that was super effective against the “omicron” stains. The talk started when the number of covid cases and deaths in Cuba seemed to be heading towards zero while in the rest of the world it was…
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The only way to end the Covid pandemic now and forever
There are no two ways about this. The variants are mutating too fast to keep making new vaccines, and mRNA vaccines are not really safe. It has been suggested that we could target parts of the virus that do not mutate much but those parts are usually buried inside the virus and we need to…
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Recombinant variants XBF & XBC.1 growing fast in (Western) Australia. Where is XBB.1.5?
A few days ago the Victorian CHO Dr Brett Sutton said XBF had a prevalence of about 29% in Australia. (R1) (R2) Since then I have watched it grow in Western Australia and the data set I have is a good week or 2 behind what the CHO has. XBC.1 is a bigger concern to…
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Get ready for a MERS-SARS-CoV2 recombinant pandemic with a death rate of ~ 40%.
The world has gone mad. They may have unwittingly prepared the scenario for a MERS recombinant with SARS-CoV2. MERS (Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome) has a Case Fatality rate (CFR)/ Death Rate of around 40%, but is not highly transmissible between humans, definitely not like the SARS-CoV2 coronavirus. MERS is a zoonotic virus that is usually…
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A new RECOMBINANT variant XBC.* has formed in the Philippines
Recombinant variants are are not formed by mutations but when two strains/variants combine/crossover inside the same cell, which transferases part of the mRNA of one variant and that of another and combines them. This can only happen of a person is simultaneously infected with 2 variants at the same time. So far not too much…
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If Covid is exploding in China, it is going off like a nuclear bomb in Australia. 1000 times worse and we are pretending the pandemic has ended for us.
As China relaxes its #zerocovid policy, we are seeing headings like “China covid cases are exploding”, but in reality the situation is far far worse in Australia and we are pretending the pandemic has ended in Australia. China is recording/reporting about 2,500 cases a day at the moment, whereas Australia is reporting about 13,500 cases…
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Australia is not #postcovid or post-pandemic. It is still in an #activecovid phase in a rolling never-ending pandemic
I find it so annoying when the media is playing the new agenda card for the government that Australia is in the #postcovid period. Australia is #activecovid. Over the last few weeks Australia has reported about 90,000 new cases a week. Allowing for people who have no symptoms, people who do not get tested, I…
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China holds onto #zerocovid. What are the implications of losing control of covid in China; immediate and long term?
China is determined to stay #zerocovid as protests across the country in modern China continue. Protestors have even found ways to escape digital detection. The covid protests are certainly a little politically motivated and are being pushed by young people who want freedoms, are also using a blank piece of paper ( as well as…
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New multiple Covid variant waves hit Australia
A few variants are currently active in Australia. BA.5.2, BA.5.2.1 and BA.4.6 have been active for a few months, but they are joined by the variants BA.2.75.2, BQ.1, BQ.1.1, BF.7 and XBB.1. The latter are all considered variants of concern in their own right, like omicron. delta and alpha. The WHO just got lazy giving…
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Australian Government Authorities announce that the pandemic is back. Huh?
About 2 weeks after I noted that the XBB variant is coming and that it is a recombinant variant, the Australian government authorities have started making announcements about a potential new wave of covid due to the XBB recombinant variant. It is interesting that they say it is our fourth wave whereas it is our…
Dr George Christos
covid19 & other Infectious diseases