Covid: New Situation Summary

Covid variants are increasingly contagious.

Only those people who’ve had Omicron have any resistance to the new strain Covid BA.5 — current vaccines and human antibodies from prior strains provide little protection against it. Thus, for the moment, masks are your single best option.

‘Fever and sore throat’ overtake ‘loss of taste and smell’ as common symptoms of BA.5

Long haul Covid symptoms show up in even some asymptomatic cases. More so in symptomatic cases.

Humor: 

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Related posting:

https://samslair.blogspot.com/2022/07/covid-ba5-variant.html?m=1

Video, using infrared, shows spread of cold, flu and Covid viruses as we talk and breathe:

https://youtu.be/xEp-Sdgl9AU

Covid hospitalization numbers interactive charts:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/current-covid-patients-hospital?time=earliest..2022-11-24&country=~USA

Note: After this chart, there follows a series of charts answering other questions relating to Covid numbers. All charts are interactive and offer a slider, etcetera to allow you to refine your search.

Note: Charts on topics other than Covid are available on their homepage. 

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Covid: BA.5 Variant

 “The fast-spreading BA.5 subvariant of Omicron and its close relative BA.4 now make up around 95% of COVID-19 cases in the U.S. —

people who survived a COVID-19 infection before the Omicron variant have only around 15% protection against a symptomatic reinfection by BA.4 or BA.5. If the previous infection was from another Omicron subvariant, that estimate rises to 76%.”

Note: Current vaccines’ efficacy is, also, reduced in combating the new strains. Thus, at the moment, face masks are still the best option.

Note: ‘Fever and sore throat’ overtake ‘loss of taste and smell’ as symptoms of the new Covid strain.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-ba5-variant-omicron-strains-difference/

Health officials are renewing their pleas to eligible Americans to get prescriptions to Paxlovid, Pfizer's COVID pills, to curb their risk of hospitalization and death from the disease, as COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations rise…The FDA's initial authorization of Paxlovid was based on a trial run by Pfizer in at-risk unvaccinated adults. Its results showed that patients' risk of severe COVID-19 was 89% lower

The drugs themselves are purchased and distributed for free by the federal government.

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/paxlovid-drug-covid-19-side-effects-how-to-get/

The FDA’s The agency's checklist for prescribing Paxlovid also requires that patients: 

>Test positive for the virus, including by either by a lab swab or at-home rapid test.

>Have at least one risk factor" for severe COVID-19, like being older than 65 years old or underlying conditions like asthma.

>Show COVID-19 symptoms, that started less within five days ago, which aren't so severe to require hospitalization.

Note: In process is the setting up of dispensing Paxlovid at the testing sites so that testing positive automatically allows immediate offering of the medicine.

Note: Updated vaccine coming this Fall

https://www.uchealth.org/today/new-omicron-covid-19-booster-shots-fall-2022-what-to-know/

Spirituality: God Star Vigil

In order to better hold the balance for world freedom and peace, it behooves us to find a way to focus our thoughts and energies upon ways to ground God Light and Love in the Earth. Such an opportunity is given in the “God Star Vigil…”

https://templeofthepresence.org/Pdf/GodStarVigilDecreePamphlet.pdf

from The Temple of the Presence

https://templeofthepresence.org

Invitation to join the God Star Vigil:

https://templeofthepresence.org/stream/shplayer?x=iM0MChsH8ZE

For related postings on ‘spirituality’—

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Global Warming: Pro and Con of the Greenhouse Effect

 The greenhouse effect is what keeps our planet from freezing over. This depends upon there being sufficient carbon dioxide in the atmosphere — however, if there is too much CO2 and other greenhouse gases in the air, then too much heat (Infrared Radiation) is retained.

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Related Postings:

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AGW: Forgive Them

There are many who do not understand the invisible action of ‘infrared radiation’ upon greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide. This is forgivable to the extent that it is not easy to understand — however, the effects are both observable and quantifiable. What prevents someone from comprehending this is ‘fear’: fear of what global warming truly means in all of our lives. 

“Fear is the mind killer” and keeps us from understanding that which we otherwise could.

Lord, forgive us for our trespasses and our many and varied ignorances.

Greenhouse Effect:

https://samslair.blogspot.com/search?q=Greenhouse+&m=1

Global Warming:

https://samslair.blogspot.com/search?q=Global+Warming+&m=1

AGW:

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