New COVID Variant XE 40% More Transmissible | Skyrocketing Cases Despite 90%+ Mask Compliance In Thailand | In Kansas, Treat Covid Or It's Breaking The Law | ETC
Here’s some important information you need to be aware of that popped up today. To begin, a new COVID variant named XE is 40% more transmissible than BA1 and will likely be dominant soon. Next, in Thailand, mask compliance is over 90%, yet they have one of the highest COVID case rates in the world. Moving on, senator Mark Steffen of Kansas wrote an open letter to healthcare workers reminding them, if they don’t treat covid, it’s against the law. There’s more, but those are the important highlights.
Of course, all data has been summarized for you below. That said, please read through the sources yourself to gain a better understanding. Also, please share this so people know this information exists.
New SARS-CoV-2 variant XE is a recombinant of BA1 + BA2 and was first identified January 19th 2022. Also, it’s now seen in Hong Kong, UK, ETC and is up to 40% more transmissible than BA1
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.03.28.22273020v1
Thailand COVID cases skyrocket even though mask compliance has consistently remained at or above 90%. Meanwhile, there was a stay issued on masking young children under 5 in NYC for what reason?
New study reveals risk differences of MIS-C (an inflammatory syndrome) from different SARS-CoV-2 variants. All and all, in kids aged 0-16, MIS-C was 56% lower during Delta- pre-vaccine era and 95% (RR, 0.05; 95% CI, 0.02-0.10) lower during Omicron period
https://www.medrxiv.org/con.../10.1101/2022.03.13.22272267v2
In Kansas,
Treat covid or you are breaking the law
http://www.kslegislature.org/li/b2021_22/members/sen_steffen_mark_1/
New study reveals risk differences of MIS-C (an inflammatory syndrome) from different SARS-CoV-2 variants. All and all, in kids aged 0-16, MIS-C was 56% lower during Delta- pre-vaccine era and 95% (RR, 0.05; 95% CI, 0.02-0.10) lower during Omicron period
https://www.medrxiv.org/con.../10.1101/2022.03.13.22272267v2
A new study out of Lancet revealed low salt diets didn’t help avert cardiovascular related death. That evidenced by all cause death of 22 individuals (6%) in low sodium group VS 17 (4%) in higher sodium intake cohort (HR 1·38 [0·73–2·60]). In other words, lower sodium diets were not associated with better heart health
https://www.thelancet.com/.../PIIS0140-6736(22.../fulltext
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