More immunoevasive and transmissible, but not more serious. The evidence on the variant of Sars-CoV-2 baptized Kraken on social media, i.e. Omicron XBB.1.5, is strengthened. And these are the qualities that now appear to be more accurately looming, according to the latest World Health Organization (WHO) assessment of the risk posed by this mutant, reported … Read more
The European Center for Disease Control has issued a note with the evaluation of the new subvariant. “For now on the general population the risk is assessed as low while the risk is moderate to high for vulnerable people such as the elderly and unvaccinated and immunocompromised people, depending on their immunity. There are currently … Read more
Of Laura Cuppini ECDC: percentage below 2.5% in EU countries. Most reports come from the USA (4,111 sequences) and the United Kingdom (202) In Europe its diffusion is still less than 2.5%, but in the United States it is galloping. The new Kraken recombinant variant (XBB.1.5), a sublineage of XBB (Gryphon) with an additional mutation … Read more
“Recent data from some countries are starting to indicate the growing presence of variant recombinant XBB.1.5 (the so-called Kraken) which is already spreading rapidly in the USA. The cases of XBB.1.5. in our region they are detected in small but growing numbers and we are working to evaluate their potential impact”. This was stated by … Read more
Concern about Kraken, the new Covid variant, is growing in Europe. Here’s what we know about the aggression rate and effectiveness of vaccines Posted on: 09-01-2023 17:13 JOURNALIST AND DEBUNKER Journalist passionate about fact checking, crime and pizza. Tobacco and caffeine addict, since 2016 he has been collaborating with Bufale.net and since 2018 he has … Read more
In China about nine thousand people die every day from the Covid. The British research company Airfinity estimates it, calculating that in a few days the deaths have doubled and that since December 1st they could have reached 100 thousand out of a total of over 18 million infections. And the forecasts are not encouraging: … Read more
Perhaps “I have the Covid», but no «it’s a cold» or maybe it could be a «classic winter fever»: on the eve of the holidays, the theme is always the same. The fear (almost terror) of getting sick but above all what are the symptoms? How do you understand what is happening? With the news … Read more
Some people are experiencing strange red spots on the body: could it be due to the new Covid variant? I study. The Sars-Cov-2 virus is still giving us many problems. The infections are rising, but not only. The variants they have the course and symptoms also changed of the disease. InformationToday Unfortunately the first colds … Read more
In the US, the scenario of the variants changes: BA.5 or Omicron 5, which for months had been the main responsible for the cases of Covid-19, is about to be overtaken by BQ.1 together with its sub-lineage BQ.1.1 (Cerberus) . In the last week, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the sub-variants … Read more
The extraordinary transmissibility of sub-variant 5 of the Omicron it is demonstrated by the numbers of contagion throughout Western Europe: Italy alone in January had so many infected in one day (over 133 thousand); in one week, positives increased by 55 percent while hospitalizations rose by 30 percent. Similar the situation in France, Spain And … Read more