Israel warns a 'storm of Covid is coming' as it announces a FOURTH jab will be given to medical staff and over-60s

Israel's prime minister has warned that a 'storm' of Covid cases is coming as he asked all over-60s and medical workers to get a second booster shot to protect themselves.

Naftali Bennett, giving a TV speech on Sunday, urged older Israelis to protect themselves from the 'Omicron wave' of Covid with a fourth vaccine, while warning that daily case tolls will soon reach record levels.

Bennet predicted that infections will top '50,000 per day soon', which would be more than double Israel's previous peak of 22,000 cases in September last year. The country is currently logging around 6,000 cases per day.

However, he also noted that Omicron is milder than previous variants and announced he would be re-opening the country to foreign travellers - reversing a ban imposed in late November.

'I closed the skies five weeks ago when everything was good,' Bennett said. 'And, over the coming week, it would be reasonable for us to reopen anew.'

Foreigners from medium-risk ('orange') countries who have been vaccinated or recovered from Covid-19 will be admitted from next week, the health ministry confirmed Monday.

The United States, Britain, United Arab Emirates, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Mexico, Switzerland and Turkey remain on Israel's red list, the health ministry said.

Visitors from those countries require advance special permission from an Israeli committee to enter.

It comes after Nachman Ash, director general of Israel's health ministry, said the country is likely to reach herd immunity during the Omicron wave through a combination of infection and vaccination.

Herd immunity means a population is protected from a disease because enough people have developed antibodies to fight it.

Once herd immunity is achieved the virus should stop spreading so widely because people are harder to infect, and even when people are infected the disease should be less severe because their bodies are primed to fight it.

'The (infection) numbers will have to be very high in order to reach herd immunity,' Ash told 103 FM Radio earlier.

'This is possible but we don't want to reach it by means of infections, we want it to happen as a result of many people vaccinating.'

But the head of the health ministry's coronavirus task force, Salman Zarka, said herd immunity was far from guaranteed, because experience over the past two years showed that some COVID-19 patients who recovered were later reinfected.

Israel was a world-leader with Covid vaccines, having completed its initial roll-out faster than most other countries which allowed it to lift lockdown early in 2020.

http://www.stationgossip.com/2022/01/israel-warns-storm-of-covid-is-coming.html

White House Wants To Cause Class Warfare Between Vaccinated And Unvaccinated

In an exclusive interview with the media, Rep. Kat Cammack (R-FL) said the White House wants to create class warfare amongst vaccinated and unvaccinated Americans in order to generate turmoil and maintain power, but it’s “not going to work.”

“I don’t think that that’s an American thing. I don’t think everyday Americans are seeing two sets of people,” she told Breitbart News last week at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest in Phoenix, Arizona.

“I don’t think we see a vaccinated and an unvaccinated population amongst us, but I think that the leadership out of the White House is certainly trying to divide us,” the congresswoman went on to add.

“And I think that that’s part of their plan, when you divide, you are able to cause chaos and strife, and that leads to control.”

“And that’s what this whole administration is about: dependency and control,” Cammack said. “The want us to start pointing fingers and placing blame.”

https://greatgameindia.com/class-warfare-unvaccinated/

Turkey starts offering 5th dose of COVID-19 booster vaccine shots

Because the first 4 were not effective enough?

The Health Ministry started offering the fifth booster doses of COVID-19 vaccines for a specific group of people, the ministry said Friday.

Individuals who received two doses of the Chinese Sinovac and two doses of the BioNTech vaccine at least three months ago will be able to get an appointment for the fifth dose.

They will be able to receive the Sinovac, BioNTech or the domestically-made Turkovac vaccines as a booster.

Turkovac, a domestically developed inactive COVID-19 vaccine, is finally available to the public after receiving emergency use approval.

www.dailysabah.com/turkey/turkey-starts-offering-5th-dose-of-covid-19-booster-shots/news

White House Briefing Room Kicks Non-MSM Reporters Out And Blames Omicron

What a coincidence in an election year, just as the Biden administration has been meeting with newsrooms to convince them to spin his bad economy into a good one. I’m sure this has nothing to do with how badly Democrats want to win this year in the House and Senate races. No, of course not. ❋COUGH❋

According to Amber Athey, editor of the Spectator, this is different than the last time pandemic precautions ruled the newsroom:

https://en-volve.com/2022/01/03/white-house-briefing-room-kicks-non-msm-reporters-out-and-blames-omicron/

Facebook Fact Checker Confesses To Labeling Factually Accurate Article As ‘False’ To Push Leftist Narrative

One of Facebook’s fact-checkers, tasked with deciding what users can and can’t see online, has confessed that they censor information they know to be factually accurate.

Science Feedback, a third-party Facebook “fact checker”, admitted this week that it attempted to suppress and censor a Reason article that criticized mask mandates because the article in question didn’t fit into the leftist mainstream narrative preferred by Facebook.

The article that caused Science Feedback to spring into action was published at the libertarian magazine Reason by Robby Soave, and was entitled “The Study That Convinced the CDC To Support Mask Mandates in Schools Is Junk Science.”

The article quoted another piece from the left-wing Atlantic’s David Zweig — an article that Science Feedback decided not to fact-check.

Per Reason:

The significance of that finding should have raised eyebrows, according to The Atlantic‘s David Zweig. “A number of the experts interviewed for this article said the size of the effect should have caused everyone involved in preparing, publishing, and publicizing the paper to tap the brakes,” he wrote in a new article that explores the study’s significant flaws. “Instead, they hit the gas.”

His article demonstrates quite convincingly that the study’s results are suspect:

But the Arizona study at the center of the CDC’s back-to-school blitz turns out to have been profoundly misleading. “You can’t learn anything about the effects of school mask mandates from this study,” Jonathan Ketcham, a public-health economist at Arizona State University, told me. His view echoed the assessment of eight other experts who reviewed the research, and with whom I spoke for this article. Masks may well help prevent the spread of COVID, some of these experts told me, and there may well be contexts in which they should be required in schools. But the data being touted by the CDC—which showed a dramatic more-than-tripling of risk for unmasked students—ought to be excluded from this debate. The Arizona study’s lead authors stand by their work, and so does the CDC. But the critics were forthright in their harsh assessments. Noah Haber, an interdisciplinary scientist and a co-author of a systematic review of COVID-19 mitigation policies, called the research “so unreliable that it probably should not have been entered into the public discourse.”

It turns out that there were numerous problems with the study. Many of the schools that comprise its data set weren’t even open at the time the study was completed; it counted outbreaks instead of cases; it did not control for vaccination status; it included schools that didn’t fit the criteria. For these and other reasons, Zweig argues that the study ought to be ignored entirely: Masking in schools may or may not be a good idea, but this study doesn’t help answer the question. Any public official—including and especially Walensky—who purports to follow the science should toss this one in the trash.

https://en-volve.com/2021/12/31/facebook-fact-checker-confesses-to-labeling-factually-accurate-article-as-false-to-push-leftist-narrative/

Making US History–not American Babies: First Time Immigration Exceeds Births in US History

Illegal aliens, tourists, and foreign visa workers delivered nearly 400,000 children in the United States over the last 12 months, prior analysis concludes, securing birthright American citizenship.

The analysis, published in 2018 by the Center for Immigration Studies, states that close to 400,000 “anchor babies,” the term used to describe the U.S.-born children of illegal aliens, are delivered across all 50 states each year.

Illegal immigration soars under Biden

There is both bad news and good news for Planned Parenthood these days. Even while abortion made a brief stop once again at the Supreme Court, its numbers are dropping.

A few years ago, abortion hit its lowest rate since it was legalized. The drop in abortion rates parallels the fall in birth rates. Both stem from a decline in pregnancies.

America isn’t becoming more moral, only more lonely.

A recent New York Times headline declared, “The Married Will Soon Be the Minority”. But it’s not just the married, but anyone in a relationship or who is connected to other people.

Marriage rates hit an all-time low around the same time, with the single population rising sharply. But the singles weren’t just postponing marriage in favor of extended relationships, because there was also a sharp drop in the rates of physical intimacy between men and women.

Americans were becoming more lonely even before the pandemic. The arrival of the pandemic divided families, cut off grandparents from grandchildren, parents from adult children, children from other children, and made the country an even more lonely and isolated place.

Over the pandemic year, the nation’s population grew by only 0.1%. According to the Census Bureau, that was “the lowest rate since the nation’s founding.” Its estimate also showed that for the first time “net international migration… has exceeded natural increase for a given year.”

America’s population has been declining for a while, but the pandemic was particularly catastrophic with international migration easily topping excess births at 244,622 to 148,043.

https://gellerreport.com/2022/01/making-us-history-not-american-babies-first-time-immigration-exceeds-births-in-us-history.html/

SECDEF can now activate DC Nat’l Guard in emergencies

On Thursday, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin issued a memo, giving himself and future defense secretaries sole authority to activate D.C. National Guard troops to participate in civil law enforcement requests or other emergency activations with less than 48 hours of notice.

Austin’s memo streamlines the approval process for D.C. National Guard activations. Such authority for D.C. National Guard activation was previously delegated to the secretary of the Army, the service’s top civilian member. Austin’s memo instead gives him the sole authority to approve requests for Guard support in law enforcement matters.

The process to deploy the D.C. National Guard is more complicated than the process employed for other states’ National Guard forces. While the National Guard forces of the various states have a clear chain of command that goes through their governor, that chain of command structure does not apply for the D.C. National Guard as the District of Columbia is not a state.

The commanding general of the D.C. Guard technically reports to the President, but in a 1969 executive order, the authority was transferred to the secretary of defense who further delegated the responsibility to the secretary of the Army. Austin’s memo moves emergency responsibilities back over to the secretary of defense.

NBC News reported the secretary of the Army still retains the authority to control D.C. National Guard operations in the district and to consider district government requests for D.C. National Guard in the city for non-law enforcement purposes and other non-urgent situations.

Austin’s move is one of multiple efforts to allow the Pentagon to respond quickly to requests for law enforcement support after the Jan. 6, 2020 storming of the U.S. Capitol. Earlier last week, President Joe Biden signed a bill into law that allows the Chief of the U.S. Capitol Police to request law enforcement support from the National Guard and other federal agencies, without first having to seek the approval of the Capitol Police Board.

“By clarifying and refining the request process, including outlining the required information needed to assess requests from federal and local partners, the department will be able to respond to requests efficiently, quickly, and effectively,” Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby said, in a statement provided to NBC News.

A Senate report released in June concluded that the Capitol Police Board failed to request National Guard assistance prior to Jan. 6, despite Capitol Police intelligence indicating that there was a threat. According to the report, the lack of prior request for National Guard assistance meant that when calls for help did come through on Jan. 6, the request had to be sent to the Department of Defense, which introduced further delays as they considered whether or not to grant the request for troops.

This failure to request assistance before Jan. 6 meant that D.C. National Guard troops were not already activated and staged to react quickly to any problems at the Capitol that day.

https://americanmilitarynews.com/2022/01/secdef-can-now-activate-dc-natl-guard-in-emergencies/

Leaders of Russia, China, US, UK, France adopt joint statement on preventing nuclear war

Leaders of five nuclear powers pointed out that as nuclear use would have far-reaching consequences, they affirm that "nuclear weapons - for as long as they continue to exist - should serve defensive purposes, deter aggression, and prevent war"

MOSCOW, January 3. /TASS/. Leaders of Russia, the United Kingdom, China, the United States and France have released a joint statement on preventing a nuclear war and avoiding arms races, according to the document published on the Kremlin website on Monday.

"The People’s Republic of China, the French Republic, the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the United States of America consider the avoidance of war between Nuclear-Weapon States and the reduction of strategic risks as our foremost responsibilities," the joint statement says.

"We affirm that a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought," it reads.

Against further spread of nuclear weapons

Leaders of five nuclear powers pointed out that as nuclear use would have far-reaching consequences, they affirm that "nuclear weapons - for as long as they continue to exist - should serve defensive purposes, deter aggression, and prevent war."

"We believe strongly that the further spread of such weapons must be prevented," said the leaders of the nuclear powers and permanent members of the United Nations Security Council.

"We reaffirm the importance of addressing nuclear threats and emphasize the importance of preserving and complying with our bilateral and multilateral non-proliferation, disarmament, and arms control agreements and commitments," the document says.

In particular, the major nuclear powers "remain committed to our Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) obligations, including our Article VI obligation ‘to pursue negotiations in good faith on effective measures relating to cessation of the nuclear arms race at an early date and to nuclear disarmament, and on a treaty on general and complete disarmament under strict and effective international control’."

Not targeted at each other

"We each intend to maintain and further strengthen our national measures to prevent unauthorized or unintended use of nuclear weapons. We reiterate the validity of our previous statements on de-targeting, reaffirming that none of our nuclear weapons are targeted at each other or at any other State," the five leaders assured.

The joint statement underlines their "desire to work with all states to create a security environment more conducive to progress on disarmament with the ultimate goal of a world without nuclear weapons with undiminished security for all."

"We intend to continue seeking bilateral and multilateral diplomatic approaches to avoid military confrontations, strengthen stability and predictability, increase mutual understanding and confidence, and prevent an arms race that would benefit none and endanger all. We are resolved to pursue constructive dialogue with mutual respect and acknowledgment of each other’s security interests and concerns," the statement emphasizes.

https://tass.com/politics/1383675

Rep. Devin Nunes formally resigns from Congress

The longtime member announced his departure last month; he will become CEO of the Trump Media & Technology Group

https://justthenews.com/government/congress/rep-devin-nunes-formally-resigns-congress

Public University Offers Professors Cash To Go Woke

University of Memphis asks faculty to infuse social justice into curricula

A public Tennessee university is offering professors financial incentives for "infusing" social justice into their classes.

The University of Memphis told faculty they could collect a $3,000 stipend for redesigning their curricula to align with the university's commitment to "diversity, equity, inclusion, and social justice," according to an email sent to all faculty obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. The offer is part of the university's "Eradicating Systemic Racism and Promoting Social Justice Initiative."

Interested faculty are asked to submit a copy of syllabi to be reworked as well as a 500-word "narrative" on their "diversity, equity, and inclusion philosophy" and how the new lessons will "address disparities" in their subject area.

The University of Memphis's offer is part of a growing trend on college campuses, where the overt promotion of social justice has become the new norm. At Ohio's Kenyon College, a small liberal arts school, professors can no longer receive tenure unless they can demonstrate "promotion of an inclusive classroom environment that values diversity."

The stipend offer from a public university has triggered concerns from both faculty and lawmakers over use of taxpayer money. One faculty member who requested anonymity due to fear of retribution said the offer "makes you scratch your head" due to the school's financial restraints.

"We've had a hard time retaining good faculty at our salary levels, so anytime you see money being spent on non-student or non-faculty causes, it makes you scratch your head," the professor said. "Could this money be spent on students or retaining quality faculty rather than a progressive agenda that isn't likely supported by the taxpayers or voters of Tennessee?"

The professor said he's concerned that otherwise apolitical courses would now be used to turn students into activists.

"I'm not sure how changing an accounting, nursing, or engineering course to align with social justice principles helps students," he said. "When faculty are underpaid in the first place, it's hard to blame them for taking this money. But it creates an incentive for a nonpartisan instructor to turn their students into activists for a few extra dollars."

Rep. Tim Burchett (R., Tenn.) said the university leadership should be "ashamed" for using taxpayer money to push professors toward "useless teaching."

"Leadership at the University of Memphis should be ashamed for bribing professors to advance this useless teaching," Burchett said after his office was alerted of the new program. "Students are better prepared for professional careers if they learn the three R's—reading, writing, and arithmetic—instead of woke activism."

The University of Memphis did not respond to a request for comment.

https://freebeacon.com/campus/public-university-offers-professors-cash-to-go-woke/

Fearing New Attack, US Pull Most Of Its Troops Out From Al-Tanf In Southeastern Syria

The US-led coalition also ordered its main proxy group at al-Tanf, the Revolutionary Commando Army (MaT), to deploy its fighters outside of the garrison.

Around 200 US troops and some 300 MaT fighters are usually deployed at al-Tanf garrison. The US-led coalition maintains a 55 kilometers no-fly, no-drive zone around the garrison.

On October 20, al-Tanf came under attack. The garrison was targeted with five suicide drones and indirect fire. The attack resulted in some serious material damage. However, there were no casualties. On December 14, a warplane of the Royal Air Force shot down one of two small drones that breached al-Tanf’s no-fly zone.

US officials believe that Iran or Iranian-backed forces were behind both the October 20 attack and the December 14 drone incident.

The US claims that its forces are present in al-Tanf to counter ISIS in Syria’s central and southern regions. However, the garrison was in fact established in 2016 to block a strategic highway that links the Syrian capital, Damascus, with Iraqi capital, Baghdad.

https://southfront.org/fearing-new-attack-us-pull-most-of-its-troops-out-from-al-tanf-in-southeastern-syria/

UK’s Regulatory Agency turns a Blind Eye to Ethylene Oxide on Test Swabs

Responding to a request under the Freedom of Information Act mid-last year, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (“MHRA”) – the organisation responsible for regulating medicines, medical devices and blood components for transfusion in the UK – demonstrated little interest in the use of ethylene oxide to sterilise test swabs being used en masse and repeatedly by the UK population.

There are three common methods of sterilising medical devices such as test swabs: two methods of radiation (“R”) and ethylene oxide (“EO”). In May 2021, in response to a request made under the Freedom of Information Act (“FoI”), the MHRA showed poor knowledge and little interest in taking responsibility for the amount of EO residue that may be transferred to people when taking Covid tests.

EO is used as a sterilising agent for medical supplies and foods, as a fumigant and as an insecticide. Exposure to this substance is highly irritating to the eyes, skin and respiratory tract, induces nausea and vomiting and causes central nervous system depression. Ethylene oxide is mutagenic in humans and chronic exposure is associated with an increased risk of leukaemia, stomach cancer, pancreatic cancer and non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

ISO 10993-7:2008 ‘Biological evaluation of medical devices — Part 7: Ethylene oxide sterilization residuals’ states that EO is known to exhibit a number of biological effects which include irritation, organ damage, mutagenicity and carcinogenicity in humans and animals, and reproductive effects in animals and that exposure to EO residues should be minimised.

The International Organisation for Standardisation browsing platform states “only informative sections of standards are publicly available” for ISO 10993-7:2008. Tolerable contact limits (“TCLs”) and exposure limits are given in sections and annexes of the ISO which have not been made publicly available – TCLs are the concentration limits to avoid potential irritant effects of EO residues on EO-sterilised medical devices. So, we searched other websites to get an indication of what the TCLs and exposure limits are.

In the year 2000 a directory of medical device suppliers, QMed, published an article which stated that “to address the cumulative effects of multiple use (more than 100 times in a lifetime) or of neonatal use of devices in the limited-exposure category,” residue limits for the “prolonged category” should be applied – 2mg per day for the first 30 days and no more than 0.1 mg EO be delivered to the patient from day 31. But noted the 0.1mg limit from day 31 “will likely change in the revision of ISO 10993-7.”

Steris, an Irish-domiciled medical equipment company specialising in sterilisation, states on their website that according to ISO 10993-7:2008/(R) 2012: “limited” use of a device is less than 24 hours; “prolonged” use is 24 hours to 30 days; and, “permanent” use is more than 30 days. And, the EO exposure limit for: “limited” use is 4mg in 24 hours; “prolonged” use 60mg over 30 days (2mg per day); and “permanent” use 2.5mg over a lifetime.

https://dailyexpose.uk/2022/01/03/uk-regulatory-agency-ignores-ethylene-oxide-on-test-swabs/

'Comedian' Patton Oswalt Apologizes For Appearing With Dave Chappelle

Excerpts:

"But we also 100% disagree about transgender rights & representation. I support trans peoples' rights — ANYONE'S rights — to live safely in the world as their fullest selves. For all the things he's helped ME evolve on, I'll always disagree with where he stands NOW on transgender issues. But I also don't believe a seeker like him is done evolving, learning. You know someone that long, see the struggles and changes, it's impossible to cut them off. Impossible not to be hopeful and open and cheer them on."

[…] "I'm an LGBTQ ally. I'm a loyal friend. There's friction in those traits that I need to reconcile myself, and not let cause feels of betrayal in ANYONE else. And I'm sorry, truly sorry, that I didn't consider the hurt this would cause. Or the DEPTH of that hurt. I've been messaging a lot on IG today, and the back and forth has really helped guide me in the writing of this. I (naively) deleted a lot of posts in the comment thread — critical ones from LGBTQ writers AND shit-posts by TERF/anti-trans orcs looking for clicks & giggles. I wanted a 'nice comment thread' about the pic with my friend. Ugh. So easy to think someone ELSE needs growth and miss the need in yourself. Gonna keep trying."

Chappelle deserves this for giving this idiot the stage.

https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=62777

Poland Purchased NSO's Pegasus After Netanyahu Meeting, Report Says

A string of reports published two weeks ago reveal that at least three prominent Polish opposition figures had their phones hacked using NSO's Pegasus in recent years

Poland’s anti-corruption body purchased the Pegasus hacking software, developed by Israeli company NSO Group, after Poland’s leader met with then-Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in 2017, a leading Polish newspaper reported Monday.

The report in the liberal Gazeta Wyborcza said the Central Anticorruption Bureau (CBA) made the purchase a few months after a meeting between Netanyahu and the prime ministers of both Poland and Hungary. The report, which says the purchase was made illegally, cited both sources and materials obtained by opposition figures in the country.

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/tech-news/.premium.HIGHLIGHT-poland-reportedly-purchased-pegasus-spyware-after-netanyahu-meeting-1.10511344

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New York Attorney General Subpoenas Don Jr., Ivanka Trump in Civil Fraud Probe

The witch hunt continues.

New York Attorney General Letitia James subpoenaed Don Jr., and Ivanka Trump as part of a civil fraud probe into whether the Trump Organization inflated values of some of its properties.

According to court documents filed Monday, Donald Trump’s two children were subpoenaed on December 1.

The New York AG’s office previously subpoenaed Donald Trump for testimony by a January 7 deadline.

Trump’s lawyers previously said they will quash the subpoena.

The Trump Organization, which is currently under indictment in Manhattan, is also facing a criminal investigation by Mimi Rocah, the Trump-hating Democrat DA in Westchester County, New York.

The DA’s office is probing to see if the Trump Organization misled the town of Ossining about the golf course’s property value to pay less taxes.

Rochah, who has repeatedly attacked Trump publicly, is on a fishing expedition looking for a crime.

Earlier this year, Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance hit the Trump Org with criminal charges.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/01/new-york-attorney-general-subpoenas-don-jr-ivanka-trump-civil-fraud-probe/

Mexican President Reiterates Asylum Offer to WikiLeaks' Assange

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador once again offered asylum to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who is currently awaiting his extradition to the United States from the United Kingdom.

In December, the London High Court ruled in favour of the US appeal to extradite Assange, overturning the earlier decision that the whistleblower cannot be extradited to America due to his health issues and the inhumane conditions he might face in the US prison system. The Mexican leader already voiced readiness to grant Assange political asylum in January last year.

"We are ready to offer asylum to Assange. We think that the US government should act humanely. Assange is sick and it would be a show of solidarity, brotherhood to allow him to have asylum in a country, in which Assange will decide to live, including in Mexico," Lopez Obrador said during a press conference broadcast by YouTube.

The whistleblower is wanted by the United States on espionage charges after WikiLeaks published thousands of classified documents that shed light on war crimes committed by American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. If put on trial and convicted in the US, the Australian journalist faces up to 175 years in prison.

https://sputniknews.com/20220103/mexican-president-reiterates-asylum-offer-to-wikileaks-assange-1092000623.html

New COVID-19 Variant With 46 Mutations Discovered In Southern France

Since its arrival in late November, the unquestionably mild Omicron strain of Covid-19 has sent daily new infections to record highs, while hospital admissions - and particularly deaths - have remained relatively low compared to the giant new denominator.

But it was only a matter of time before a new variant hit the scene. Like omicron, it appears this new variant originated in an African country - Cameroon - after being isolated by scientists in southern France.

The first official case is reported to be a traveler from Cameroon, and it's now spreading in Southern France where at least 12 people have been infected with it, according to research published on medrvix.

To be clear - we know virtually nothing about this new strain aside from the fact that it exists. Nothing on severity, transmissibility, 'long covid', etc. We do know it's highly mutated from the original strain, much like Omicron. It's also too soon to tell if it will be classified as a 'variant of concern.'

In the medrvix preprint, which has yet to be peer-reviewed, experts from a French government-backed program said they had identified 46 mutations in the variant.

"SARS-CoV-2 variants have become a major virological, epidemiological and clinical concern, particularly with regard to the risk of escape from vaccine-induced immunity," the paper's authors wrote.

The scientists also postulated that the new variant was probably of "Cameroonian" origin. Readers can find the complete report below. The variant has been given the name B.1.640.2, and was first detected by experts at the IHU Mediterranee Infection Foundation in Marseille.

According to the paper, the scientists' analysis of the variant's genome revealed 46 mutations and "37 deletions resulting in 30 amino acid substitutions and 12 deletions. Fourteen 43 amino acid substitutions, including N501Y and E484K, and 9 deletions are located in the 44 spike protein."

https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/new-variant-46-mutations-discovered-southern-france