New Covid variant expected
A new Covid variant is expected in town over the next few months.
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mare 08:40 on 2022-08-12 Permalink
Water is wet, news at eleven.
That report is very speculative. Nobody knows if there will be a new variant (it’s very likely though), and how it’ll affect us. It has be very contagious to succeed to push away the current Omicron variants, and it can be either more or less virulent. We don’t know yet, there are currently no major new variants of concern or interest, not even in Africa, apart from some sub sub variants of Omicron.
This report feels like a plee of the science community to the politicians to stay at the ready, regroup and prepare for the worst, this pandemic isn’t over yet.
Well, it is, at least until after the provincial elections.
Blork 09:57 on 2022-08-12 Permalink
I agree with mare. It’s like those news outlets have a quota of COVID stories to fill, so they just grabbed a “water is wet’ story and turned it into something more ominous (“Hydration experts fear that water will be wet.”)
That doesn’t mean a new variant won’t arrive. It just means there is no specific evidence or indicators that one will, but the healthcare people very reasonably fear that one will. The way astronomers fear a gigantic asteroid will crash into Earth. Doesn’t mean they see one coming, just that they fear one might.
#howtoreadthenewsin2022
MarcG 16:02 on 2022-08-12 Permalink
As long as the public health policy is “watch it burn” we should expect permanent waves, and like climate change, it deserves to be on the front page of the newspaper every single morning in bold.