You can watch WHNs recent broadcast with Eric Feigl-Ding discussing the newer variants and current surge here:

https://fb.watch/mVW-rRhlrQ/

I noticed he was also quoted in a recent CBS news article here:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbsnews.com/amp/boston/news/jon-keller-large-jill-biden-covid-outbreak/

@whn @whn@a.gup.pe

#covid19 #pirola #covidvariants #Schools #LongCOVID #LongCovidKids #MaskUp

Reading @covid_stats (every few minutes), I get the impression that we're all on a honeymoon with #SARSCoV2 (the moment when the virus gives us peace).
One observation: this is exactly the time when a new variant can appear, with less competition.
Welcome to #BA286 #Pirola and the sub-variants already detected :covid19:
@novid

#Pirola variant spreading: a number of scientists believe the Norfolk ‘care home’ incident is an early indicator that it may be sufficiently transmissible to have impact in close-contact settings.’

🤔Hospitals and schools, for example?

https://metro.co.uk/2023/09/09/new-covid-variant-pirola-spreading-with-outbreak-at-care-home-19472646/?ito=article.desktop.share.top.twitter

#IDmastodon @northwesternu
That’s great in the Marching of #Eris & #pirola ‘#MaskUp & ’Mind that #viralload #COVID patients exhale up to 1,000 copies of 🦠 per minute during first 8 days of symptoms .First direct measure of #SARSCoV2 viral copies exhaled over the course of infection
https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2023/09/covid-patients-exhale-up-to-1000-copies-of-virus-per-minute-during-first-eight-days-of-symptoms/

"Gute Neuigkeiten zur BA.2.86 #Pirola Variante, über die derzeit viel berichtet wird, und zum angepassten XBB.1.5.-Impfstoff.
Sehr robuste Kreuzneutralisation nach Booster mit dem neuen #Impfstoff, gleiches gilt für die EG.5.1 #Eris Variante."
berichtet Leif Eric Sander von der Charite in Berlin mit Bezug zum angehängten Dokument🎉
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.08.22.23293434v2.full.pdf

Latest #Covid19 variant spreading in #UK, #health data suggests

BA.2.86, nicknamed #Pirola, causing concern among scientists because of fear it could be more transmissible
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/08/pirola-latest-covid-variant-spreading-in-uk-health-data-suggests
#PublicHealth

Covid variant news: Moderna gives update on Covid vaccine coming this fall as cases rise across the US and Canada | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/covid-symptoms-test-vaccine-pirola-latest-b2407679.html

#Pirola
#Covid
#Moderna
#Vaccination
#Omicron
#HighlyMutated
#UpdatedCovidBooster

Il misterioso virus che ha colpito i tennisti agli #UsOpen è la nuova variante #Pirola? Parla l’esperto: “Presenta 40 mutazioni”.

https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2023/09/08/il-misterioso-virus-che-ha-colpito-i-tennisti-agli-us-open-e-la-nuova-variante-pirola-parla-lesperto-presenta-40-mutazioni/7284377/

#Covid #Coronavirus #Vaccino

"Not good reading about Ba 2.86 (pirola) and also EG 5.1 ( Eris)
All vaccine Sera tested showed NO neutralising activity.
Monoclonal antibodies didn’t work at all.
Literally the tools we have been told to rely on for living with Covid, in the lab, do not appear to work." https://twitter.com/drclairetaylor/status/1699741612853665945?t=WWusk1O50IWjyF2xba89vw&s=09 #covid #eris #pirola

Neue Virusvariante #Pirola: #Israel führt wieder Testpflicht bei Krankenhausaufnahme ein. #Covidisnotover https://www.fr.de/panorama/krankenhaeuser-ausbreitung-herbst-coronavirus-variante-pirola-israel-pcr-tests-92502617.html r

Corona wird wieder zum Thema, aber: die ersten Lab Daten zu #Pirola (BA.2.86) stimmen zuversichtlich.

- Die zelluläre Infektiosität ist wahrscheinlich geringer als in anderen Varianten
- Kreuzreaktivität mit Antikörper von vorherigen Varianten
- Immuninvasion wahrscheinlich nicht so stark wie befürchtet

From Los Angeles Times: Some good COVID news: New vaccine appears to work well against Pirola subvariant

#COVID #Vaccine #Pirola

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-09-06/some-good-covid-news-new-vaccine-works-well-against-omicron-subvariant-ba-2-86

#CovidIsNotOver #COVID19 #Ba286 #Pirola

Via Tw from Kei Sato @SystemsVirology

https://twitter.com/SystemsVirology/status/1699707542589567071?s=20

ALERT
#CovidIsNotOver
#Pirola variant now active

#COVID
Harvard public health specialist:
"My good friend, if #BA.2.86 were really contagious, it would be found everywhere by now".
The facts:
#Pirola has been found all over the world, where sequencing is still in progress.

Complacency - yet again - fears growing over the new #Pirola variant - scientists warning the UK 'let its guard down' - after scaling down #Covid testing and the 'world-leading' @ONS weekly infection monitoring.
🚨Don't pretend it's over, #CovidIsNotOver.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/covid-pirola-boris-johnson-brexit-b2406369.html

Complacency - yet again - fears growing over the new #Pirola variant - scientists warning the UK 'let its guard down' - after scaling down #Covid testing and the 'world-leading' @ONS weekly infection monitoring.
🚨Don't pretend it's over, #CovidIsNotOver.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/covid-pirola-boris-johnson-brexit-b2406369.html

[Probably it has been said on X but since I've no login there]

About the experiment evaluating #BA286 infectivity, the cell line HEK293T-hACE2 has no TMPRSS2 receptor.
If #Omicron has an altered usage of TMPRSS2, when compared with #delta, that may not be the case of #Pirola
Thus this result is incomplete and may not reflect the full potential of this #SARSCoV2 variant.

- The fast Chinese study:
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.09.01.555815v1
- About Omicron and TMPRSS2:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04474-x

Seit Montag sind in israelischen Krankenhäusern PCR-Tests für alle Neuaufnahmen obligatorisch. Das Gesundheitsministerium hat diese Anordnung erlassen, um auf die aufkommende Coronavirus-Variante namens "#Pirola" zu reagieren. #Corona #Covid

https://www.dmz-news.eu/2023/09/05/israel-verschärft-maßnahmen-als-reaktion-auf-neue-coronavirus-variante-pirola/

#UK zieht #Impfungen vor und startet sein SURVEILLANCE programm parallel zum Schulbeginn wieder. #CovidIsNotOver #Pirola
https://news.sky.com/story/covid-surveillance-to-restart-ahead-of-winter-amid-new-variant-concerns-12954847