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@BathroomReports

Someone on just asked me if I'd read the reports about how masks don't work. My answer:
"You mean the crackpot anti-mask 'theories' designed to dupe people into believing masks don't work so we could get to this point in history when the World Health Organisation 1/

(WHO) openly collaborates with the profiteers of the Capitalist system to officially declare a Level 3 biohazard pandemic over at the expense of millions more future deaths and the crippling of people's (including children) health for the rest of their lives? 2/

Yes, I've read them. After I finished reading them I put them where they belong - in the blazing fire of humanity's fury." 3/3
#WearAMask
#COVIDisAirborne
#Arcturus

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Chris Turnbull

@EnemyInAState

China has brought back testing centers as well: all around Asia (ie those closest to India, the home of #XBB116 #SARS3 #Arcturus #COVID19 we see increasing signs to control the virus: they are only a few weeks ahead of us in terms of spreads and are currently being hammered

https://twitter.com/T_Brautigan/status/1654526618503610382

I get serious Jan 2020 vibes from all this:

https://twitter.com/jenniferzeng97/status/1654220672153862144

Despite the fact we see so many countries taking some form of action in Asia, with the Indian PM himself decalring that 'covid is far from over' months ago now and announcing a 5 point strategy to tackle the new strain: I see nothing in the west at all

https://twitter.com/EnemyInAState/status/1638682321812353026

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Esther Hopkins

@ELHopkins

#Arcturus is already in the UK at lower levels. We can all play our part to prevent a bigger wave. #WearAMask #N95 Open windows. Please watch this video from WHO ‘hundreds of millions’ of people will need long term care. Why isn’t this on the news @BBCNews the Public need to know

Everyone is at risk from long covid.

https://twitter.com/Saffiya_Khan1/status/1651568645007450112

Risk increases with each reinfection as you can see from the graph below. The more times you catch COVID the greater your risk.

https://twitter.com/DavidSteadson/status/1546308765171224576

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The Sato Lab (Kei Sato)

@SystemsVirology

BREAKING🔔 The 19th paper from G2P-Japan🇯🇵 is out at Lancet Infectious Diseases @TheLancetInfDis . We elucidated the virological characteristics of new SARS-CoV-2 variant of interest, XBB.1.16 (aka #Arcturus) Please RT🔥 1/
thelancet.com/journals/lanin…

XBB.1.16 = XBB.1 + #F486P, #E180V, and #T478K in spike.
cf. XBB.1.5 = XBB.1 + #F486P in spike (i.e., XBB.1.16 = XBB.1.5 + #E180V and #T478K in spike). 2/

A phylogenetic tree shows that XBB.1.16 is a descendant of XBB.1, not of XBB.1.5. 3/

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Chris Turnbull

@EnemyInAState

#SARS3 #Covid #XBB116 #Arcturus is currently at just under 2% of cases based on sampling, so we're really at the start of this thing in the UK:

https://twitter.com/Zen_Brenda5/status/1653854842958360580

Breaking the UK up by nation we see the areas are all roughly the same prevalence: with Wales having the least

However, perhaps somewhat unexpectedly according to the data, US is well ahead of the UK, WITH A 5X increase in prevelence of nearly 10% of cases currently: that's very strange and somehwat makes me very much question the UK's data on this

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Chris Turnbull

@EnemyInAState

NEW Study from the hard-hit Maharashtra area of India shows BRUTAL: #SARS3 #Covid #XBB116 #Arcturus strain has a fatality rate of 1 in 40 with a staggering 1 in 3 needing oxygen, and nearly 30% being hospitalised with the new strain:

Finally we have something resembling some form of actual data from India about this strain: and it's not pretty:

'Among the XBB.1.16* cases, 91.7% were vaccinated with at least one dose of vaccine against COVID-19. While 74.3% of XBB.1.16* ...

..cases were home-isolated; 25.7% needed hospitalization/institutional quarantine, of these, 33.8% needed oxygen therapy. Out of 276 XBB.1.16* cases, seven (2.5%) cases succumbed to the disease.'

medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

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Chris Turnbull

@EnemyInAState

WATCH: explained here is how the new breakthrough PL-M drug works against any strain of the virus and that means it's going to work on the new #SARS3 #arcturus #xbb116 India strain that is frankly shaping up to be BRUTAL:

https://twitter.com/EnemyInAState/status/1640799364695347200

Galectin inhibitors are a brand new type of antiviral: they work by attaching to the galectin fold of the virus: a part of the virus which will not mutate unlike the spike, which is endlessly mutating, and the target of the vaccines:

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Vipin M. Vashishtha

@vipintukur

Some more info on XBB.2.3. Aka #Acrux

➡️ XBB.2.3 has 4 defining mutations:

-Spike mutations: S:D253G & S:P521S
-ORF mutations: ORF1a:G2091S & ORF7a:A13V
-Beyond XBB.2, #Acrux XBB.2.3 has the Spike P521S & S486P mutations 1/

H/T: @T_Brautigan

➡️ Acrux XBB.2.3 was first spotted in India (Karnataka) & then in the USA—origin is somewhat unclear.

Here is the animated map by @Mike_Honey_ showing the spread of the XBB.2.3.* "Acrux" variant around the world. 2/

➡️ Singapore (26%) and India (22%) are still the hotspots.

Spain (11%) and Australia (8%) are also showing recent growth.

Spotted in many other countries including Japan, South Korea, China, the UK & the US. 3/

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Raj Rajnarayanan

@RajlabN

#COVID19 #VariantDashboard - #UnitedStates

TOP lineages (#15DAYTRENDS):

56.2% XBB.1.5
6.1% XBB.1.9.1
4.5% XBB.1.16
2.2% XBB.1.5.1
2.1% XBB.1.9.2
1.4% XBB.1.5.13
1.4% XBB.1.5.15
1.4% XBB.1.5.17

#SARSCoV2 Tracker: tinyurl.com/mryj4uu7 Updated: 05/01/23

1/n

#COVID19 #VariantDashboard - #USA
[without sequences from "Airport Surveillance"]

Top lineages (#15DayTrends):

XBB.1.5 (61.7%)
XBB.1.9.1 (5.5%)
XBB.1.16 (2.4%)
XBB.1.5.1 (2.3%)
XBB.1.5.13 (1.6%)
XBB.1.5.17 (1.6%)
XBB.1.9.2 (1.6%)
XBB.1.5.15 (1.3%)
FD.2 (1%)

2/n

Airport sequences constitute ~12.4% of sequences with sample collection dates in the last 15 days (#15DayTrends)

Its going to be a three way race to outcompete XBB.1.5*: XBB.1.9* vs XBB.1.16* vs XBB.2.3*

As of now, XBB.1.16* family looks to over take everything else!

3/n

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Chris Turnbull

@EnemyInAState

#Arcturus #Covid #SARS3 tale of horror unfolding here:

https://twitter.com/AmyCuthbertso17/status/1652052752036405249

https://twitter.com/AmyCuthbertso17/status/1653177408663482368

I'm not aware of the OP's location, but I think it's the UK: in order to get paramedics out in the UK you basically have to be dead so she ain't kidding — it's severe

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Chris Turnbull

@EnemyInAState

As the new Indian #SARS3 #Arcturus #XBB116 strain takes off across the world, more and more are reporting horrific Covid eyes:

Studies show that Covid eyes contain infectious virus capable of infecting others: the eyes, do indeed, have it: twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

'We found that ocular fluids from SARS-CoV-2–infected patients may contain infectious virus, and hence may be a potential source of infection'
acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M2…

Interestingly, the CT value of the infected shows a lower (and therefore more infectious) value on day 13 than from the nose itself:

Further, on day 27 after seeming to go up and become less infectious,they then go back down implying they are more infectious..

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Raj Rajnarayanan

@RajlabN

Tracking #SARSCoV2 lineage XBB.1.16* (#Arcturus) over time - Globally

Total Sequences : 8,182 (circulating in 43 countries)

Tracker:public.tableau.com/app/profile/ra…

Note: Recent Epi weeks are incomplete; Includes seqs from targeted & Airport surveillance

Updated:05/01/23

Tracker now includes all the designated XBB.1.16* sub-lineages

https://twitter.com/RajlabN/status/1649918584817086464

Tracking #SARSCoV2 lineage XBB.1.16* (#Arcturus) over time - Globally

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Chris Turnbull

@EnemyInAState

WARNING ABOUT #XBB116 #SARS3 #Arcturus COVID EYES FROM TIKTOKER WHO ENDED UP HAVING 'bleeding eyes' which Drs had to 'rip out of my face' after 'mild' cold-like symptoms to begin with...

h/t @AprilDalaman twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

His horrific story is explained here: it all started with a 'severe cold' 3 weeks ago: which apparently resolved after a week...however, virus had already spread to the eyes and infected them:

It just got worse and worse and to the point where his eyes were swollen shut as the virus continued to replicate in the eyes: which contain high levels of ACE2 receptors that the virus uses to attach and replicate in:

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T. Ryan Gregory

@TRyanGregory

It's likely that you'll be hearing more about another XBB descendant lineage, XBB.2.3*, alongside XBB.1.5 (Kraken), XBB.1.9.1 (Hyperion), and XBB.1.16 (Arcturus).

To aid communication, we're nicknaming XBB.2.3* "Acrux" (after the star en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acrux).

This is in keeping with the new nicknaming system that uses astronomical names and includes information about the lineage (starts with A-H = BA.2 lineage) and recombinant ancestry (has an R in the name = recombinant descendant).

whn.global/common-names-f…

It's easy to track variant info thanks to amazing tools by folks like @Mike_Honey_, @RajlabN, and @nextstrain.

public.tableau.com/app/profile/ra…

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Chris Turnbull

@EnemyInAState

Interestng that #Arcturus #Covid is trending in the UK: for those only joining the story now: bear in mind that the strain, which originated in india is considered so dire that even their far-right PM Modi brought back masks and said 'covid is far from over'

https://twitter.com/EnemyInAState/status/1651309972632862732

https://twitter.com/EnemyInAState/status/1646981044892057600

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Dr Emma Hodcroft

@firefoxx66

🎉CoVariants.org Update!🎉

23B (XBB.1.16) is now available on CoVariants! It's visible as part of Per Country & Per Variant plots, on the shared mutation page - and of course, has a page of its own.

1/10

#XBB116 #23B #Arcturus
📷

This is in line with the recent addition of 23B (XBB.1.16) as a @nextstrain clade - read more on that below 👇🏻!

2/10

https://twitter.com/nextstrain/status/1650545883480567813

As I covered earlier, 23B (XBB.1.16) is descended from the recombinant 22F (XBB) variant, with some additional mutations. You can read more about how it evolved & acquired those mutations below 👇🏻.

3/10

https://twitter.com/firefoxx66/status/1648588097381101570

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Vipin M. Vashishtha

@vipintukur

XBB.1.16 #Arcturus Covid surge in India: How it is affecting young children & infants.

Here are the key findings based on our study of 25 children from April 4-16’ 23:

1-Current outbreak is causing a mild febrile illness
2-Total duration of illness is only 1-3 days. 1/

3-Young infants are disproportionately more affected than older children.

4-The youngest infant was 13 day old neonate!

5-infants below one year had a significantly higher positivity rate than older children (40.38% versus 10.5%, p=000816). 2/

6-Unlike the previous BA.2 Omicron wave, respiratory symptoms are predominating in young infants

7-Cycle threshold values for nucleocapsid and ORFlab genes on positive RT-PCR vary from 18 to 23. 3/

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Bean & Sprout's Mom

@beansprouts_mom

Dark LOL at the latest efforts to spin this as Severe Allergy Respiratory Syndrome season.

https://twitter.com/GlobalBC/status/1643059559563657218?s=20

nypost.com/2023/04/18/all…

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Raj Rajnarayanan

@RajlabN

Tracking #SARSCoV2 lineage XBB.1.16* (#Arcturus) over time - Globally

Total Sequences : 4,837 (circulating in 37 countries)

Tracker: public.tableau.com/app/profile/ra……

Note: Recent Epi weeks are incomplete; Includes seqs from targeted & Airport surveillance
Updated:04/20/23

New entrant: #Bulgaria

Tracking #SARSCoV2 lineage XBB.1.16.1 over time - Globally

Total Sequences : 1003

racker: public.tableau.com/app/profile/ra……

Note: Recent Epi weeks are incomplete; Includes seqs from targeted & Airport surveillance

Updated: 04/20/23

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Raj Rajnarayanan

@RajlabN

Tracking #SARSCoV2 lineage XBB.1.16* (#Arcturus) over time - Globally

Total Sequences : 4,200 (circulating in 34 countries)

Tracker: public.tableau.com/app/profile/ra……

Note: Recent Epi weeks are incomplete; Includes seqs from targeted & Airport surveillance

Updated: 04/17/23

Tracking #SARSCOV2 Lineage XBB.1.16.1* (XBB.1.16 + Spike T547I) - Globally

Total Sequences: 887

Tracking #SARSCOV2 Lineage XBB.1.16* in #India

Total Sequences: 2,519

Note: Recent epi-weeks are incomplete

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Raj Rajnarayanan

@RajlabN

Tracking #SARSCoV2 lineage XBB.1.16* (#Arcturus) over time - Globally

Total Sequences : 3,576 (circulating in 33 countries)

Tracker: public.tableau.com/app/profile/ra……

Note: Recent Epi weeks are incomplete; Includes seqs from targeted & Airport surveillance

Updated: 04/15/23

Tracking #SARSCOV2 Lineage XBB.1.16.1* (XBB.1.16 + Spike T547I) - Globally

Total Sequences: 749

Tracking #SARSCOV2 Lineage XBB.1.16* in #India

Total Sequences: 2,252

Note: Recent epi-weeks are incomplete

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