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COVID-19 News: United States Records 839 New COVID-19 Deaths and 122,934 New COVID-19 Infections In The Last 24 hours! The Worse Is Yet to Come!
COVID-19 News -United States -COVID-19 Deaths And Hospitalizations Increasing Dec 29, 2022 1 year, 11 months, 3 weeks, 3 days, 13 hours, 48 minutes ago
COVID-19 News: The United States recorded more than 839 new COVID-19 deaths in the last 24 hours and more than 122,934 new COVID-19 infections though many local experts there is huge underreporting coupled with the fact about 12 states are not reporting COVID-19 data! https://www.google.com/search?q=covid-19+deaths+united+states&oq
The same goes for COVID-19 hospitalization data, though figures show that only a mere 35,315 Americans were hospitalized for COVID-19 as of the 26th of December 2022 and about 4,286 are in critical care, only about 36 states are reporting COVID-19 hospitalizations. Physicians and healthcare entities are insisting that the actual hospitalization rates only for COVID-19 are far much more and could be as high as 2.4 fold! https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/current-covid-patients-hospital?country=USA
What is concerning is that latest data from Chinese virologists Professor Dr Yunlong Richard Cao shows that this new XBB.1.5 sub-lineage not only has a growth advantage over the BQ variants and sub-lineages besides the XBB and XBB.1 sub-lineage, but it also has enhanced binding affinity with human ACE-2 receptors….hence increasing its transmissibility and infectability. The F486 P mutation found on this new sub-lineage is believed to be play a key role in its pathogenesis. https://twitter.com/yunlong_cao/status/1607915567696203776
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What is concerning however is that even this XBB.1.5 variant and its own parent ie the XBB variant is still evolving rapidly and spawning many newer sub-lineages and seems to not only becoming more immune evasive and also more transmissible with enhanced infectivity, but they are also more pathogenic but at this stage we still cannot claim if they are causing disease severity yet in order to be politically correct in the current circumstances! https://github.com/cov-lineages/pango-designation/issues/1487
It is expected that more pathogenic and virulent sub-lineages are expected to gradually emerge in the United States in the next few weeks and with that we can also see more hospitalizations and also more deaths.
The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation or IHME at the University of Washington predicts that between 40,000 to 90,000 Americans are expected to die from now till the end of march 2023 based on an optimistic scenario.
This does not include excess deaths but does take into account the current methods of trying to reduce COVID-19 deaths reporting using criteria set by various states across America.
With lots of ignorant Americans assuming that COVID-19 is over or that the COVID-19 disease or SARS-Cov-2 virus is mild or similar to flu, it is going to be fun times ahead in America. Despite there being lots of American COVID-19 ‘experts’ and medical ‘experts’ on twitter, we will see lots of Americans simply dropping like flies in next few years as they face constant onslaughts from the ever evolving and mutating SARS-CoV-2 virus and will not only die from COVID-19 but also for various medical and health manifestations of Long COVID and most will deserve it as they are simply arrogant, racialistic and discriminatory as they assume that only the Western experts or the Western media are reliable!
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