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Castor_and_Pollux123 t1_j4gxkja wrote

Did The Weather Channel name these variants?

After the Kraken, then the Basilisk? How about the Minotaur?

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leaC30 t1_j4ihhnm wrote

They skipped over a whole Leviathan.

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goodsam2 t1_j4jioni wrote

Actually the CDC still claims Kraken to be Omicron, ie not different enough. The media is calling it Kraken.

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drpvn t1_j4go0nj wrote

Could respiratory viruses be seasonal?

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taubs1 t1_j4guefl wrote

the kraken lol what drug marketing team came up with that to scare ppl

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Vizualize t1_j4lczej wrote

The only Kraken I know is Phil McKraken. Not sure what they're referring to here.

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Same-Helicopter-1210 t1_j4ip40c wrote

All depends on what mainstream media channel you're watching....

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MLao_ t1_j4ojca6 wrote

... The Kraken?

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The_Lone_Apple t1_j4ggbvv wrote

Hopefully a good number of people have gotten the bivalent booster which according to studies seems to prevent people from getting extremely ill from this new variant.

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Oslopa t1_j4girv0 wrote

I don’t think we have this evidence yet. Certainly, the medical advice is to get the bivalent booster, and there is some basis for believing that it should provide some protection against severe illness due to the unfortunately-named “Kraken” variant. But we’re still at the “best educated guess” stage, on this.

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chengjih t1_j4j5v8v wrote

There's some evidence that it's providing additional protection.

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Oslopa t1_j4jbwwg wrote

That’s good! Hot off the presses, too. It’s not perfect, but it’s certainly closer to the mark than I thought we were.

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BigLebrouski t1_j4j7skr wrote

Hopefully people have begun to realize that the pharma companies are as full of shit as they’ve always been and that Covid is gonna stay with us for the long haul no matter how many minimally effective drugs they try to scare us into taking. The number of times they’ve pushed drugs they knew were harmful and/or ineffective but also knew they’d profit from even when it was proven they’d behaved unethically.. it’s not insignificant.

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The_Lone_Apple t1_j4kqa1v wrote

Hopefully people will educate themselves even tiny little bit in between swiping things on their phone to realize that getting vaccines and boosters help you to not get very sick and die. They don't cure anything and make it possible to go prancing around coughing and wheezing on everyone because someone wants their 2019 life back.

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Sundayx1 t1_j4grdxr wrote

I don’t think the numbers are being reported right.I think the only way you can get people back to masking and getting it under control is social media ,local news stations ,newspapers etc. because I think people are just not really paying attention. I’m not sure but something seems off with the numbers. I was thinking this could happen when people got so sick of Covid. I knew it was only a matter of time before the virus was going to get way more out of control because people stopped masking and wanted to go out more etc. Also- these holidays w 10 plus ppl coming in from all around is ridiculous. I ran into this woman and she told me that her family was having 25 people – she skipped it - all 25 of them got Covid within the next few weeks. And one or two of them were pretty bad . And the others that got it were pretty sick for two or three weeks so… We need more info on it. Accurate info!

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