BQ and XBB Omicron Subvariants Have Emerged
Theoretical Benefit of COVID-19 Bivalent Boosters Is Lost with Mutational Shift
By Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH
By now all Americans have become closet virologists who nod with understanding when hearing family, school, or work discussions about SARS-CoV-2 variants, subvariants, and mutated Spike proteins. Most everyone knows with the influenza vaccine, that the antigens are modified each year in anticipation of the seasonal predominant strain. With COVID-19 vaccine, the company vaccinologists have been playing from behind. So instead of anticipating a future strain, they have developed bivalent boosters against the ancestral Wuhan wild-type strain and previously dominant BA4/BA5. Our CDC Nowcast system showed the Wuhan wild-type strain had been extinct for nearly two years and as of January 14, 2023, BA4/BA5 the previously dominant strains accounted for only 2.6% of subvariants. The new kids on the block are BQ and XBB with 72% of the pie.
These subvariants have learned to escape the antibodies from the bivalent vaccines with great alacrity over a short period of time. In a letter from Miller et al, the authors concede that the bivalent boosters in theory are essentially useless against the newer subvariants.
An estimated 94% of people in the U.S. have been infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus at least once, according to according to a new paper from researchers at Harvardās School of Public Health. That means second and third infections are much milder than the first and carry a negligible risk of hospitalization and death.
Thus with essentially no theoretical opportunity for benefit, and continued cumulative risks of myocarditis, blood clots, and neurological damage, the call to pull the COVID-19 vaccines from the market remains well supported from the emerging literature. Dr. McCullough Calls for COVID-19 Vaccines to be Pulled Off the Market, US Senate, Dec 7, 2022.
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My daughter had CV about 2 weeks ago. Assume it was the variant du jour. Very very mild, symptoms for only a day, then she was fine. No one else in the house caught it, and I, especially, was in close contact with her. We took IVM as prophylactic.
Wouldnāt it be great if our govāt rolled out early treatment kits and little nasal spray bottles that folks would use routinely the way we heard about snuff in the 19th century? This could have transformed society early on, saved a few $T and 1000 tons of medical waste. My personal belief is that Fauci would have a distinctive pattern detected in a SPECT scan. Akin to autism, underdevelopment of the prefrontal cortex. Cats have that. Beware Fauci meowing and hopping into your lap when he needs to be fed. Does your cat have an unrealistic notion of his/her importance? Are you not guilty of encouraging it?