The omicron offshoot’s ability to easily infect cells may be helping it spread rapidly in places. CovidIsntOver CovidVaccine Covid_19 XBB.1.5 Kraken pandemic
For now, experts at the World Health Organization are keeping a close eye on XBB.1.5. But it’s
XBB.1.5 has the immune slipperiness of XBB, but it also has this new mutation that makes it easy to infect cells. So it’s kind of like a bulldog in not wanting to let go of the cell. Whereas XBB was kind of invisible, like it had the invisibility cloak from: Is that why it’s spreading so effectively in some areas?: We think so. Because to be very efficient at infecting cells is a really important superpower if you are a virus.
You can have somebody who got infected two or three times plus they got vaccinated and boosted. That’s going to be somebody who’s going to be really, really well protected against getting seriously ill. Maybe they might get a cold. Maybe they wouldn’t even know they had an infection versus somebody who didn’t get vaccinated and never got exposed and they’re older. It might as well be March of 2020 for them.
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