The variant is called EG.5 and is a descendant of Omicron.

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention estimated that EG.5 accounted for roughly 17.3 per cent — or one in six — of new COVID-19 cases in the U.S. in the past two weeks.

  • Sinister [none/use name, comrade/them]@hexbear.netB
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    1 year ago

    I am the only person, literally the ONLY person who wears a mask anymore. No one in the city, no one during grocery shopping or in schools and no one public transportation. I get looks but I already got covid once, due to my „skeptical“ parents and I don’t intend to get it again.

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      1 year ago

      I had to visit the ER a few weeks ago. Aside from me, there were two or three other people in masks, and they were patients.

      I just don’t understand it. Medical professionals should know better, but somehow don’t??