Fogdog
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I'm laughing at how badly you misunderstood what the Israeli Health Ministry reported.
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UncleBuck
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dude youve already proven youre too stupid to tell a right wing disinformation blog from reality. just stop unless you want to make me laugh some more
FresnoFarmer
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You’re too stupid to tell government propaganda from reality, but ok lol. It’s all propaganda. Either right or left. Pick your poison.
rkymtnman
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just so you know, i'm rooting for you and yours.
DIY-HP-LED
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Well we are working our way through the Greek alphabet and will have to switch to the Roman when we hit Omega. The alpha and Delta variants went trough pretty quick, I wonder how this contestant in Darwin's race will do?
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Texas hospital reports its 1st case of lambda COVID-19 variant - ABC News (go.com)
Texas hospital reports its 1st case of lambda COVID-19 variant
The lambda variant was first detected in Peru in December 2020.
A major Texas hospital system has reported its first case of the lambda COVID-19 variant, as the state reels from the rampant delta variant.
Houston Methodist Hospital, which operates eight hospitals in its network, said the first lambda case was confirmed Monday.
The lambda variant was first detected in Peru in December 2020, according to the World Health Organization and makes up 81% of COVID-19 cases sequenced in the country since April 2021, according to a June WHO report. Currently, WHO designates lambda as a "variant of interest."
Houston Methodist had a little over 100 COVID-19 patients across the hospital system last week. That number rose to 185 Monday, with a majority of those infected being unvaccinated, according to a statement released by the hospital Monday.
Among those infections, about 85% have been diagnosed with the delta variant, hospital officials said.
"We're seeing an alarming spike in the number of COVID-19 cases across the Houston area, with the steepest increase happening over the weekend," Houston Methodist said. "The increased hospitalizations add stress to many of our hospitals that are nearing capacity."
Hospital president and CEO Dr. Marc Boom stressed it is "imperative" that the community "get vaccinated and decrease virus spread."
Despite the report of the lambda variant, experts at Houston Methodist say delta is still the primary concern in the U.S.
"The lambda is the dominant variant in Peru and Peru has had a very difficult time with COVID-19. It shares mutations in common with the alpha variants, the beta, the gamma, which is the dominant variant in Brazil," Dr. Wesley Long, medical director of Diagnostic Microbiology at Houston Methodist, told ABC News.
"I don't think there's sufficient evidence at this point that we should be more concerned about lambda than delta, I still think delta is the primary concern for us. There's a lot more evidence that we have that delta is much more contagious, the viral loads are much higher," he added.
The lambda variant "has been associated with substantive rates of community transmission in multiple countries, with rising prevalence over time concurrent with increased COVID-19 incidence," the WHO said in its June report. In June, the variant was detected in 29 countries.
The delta variant, which was first detected in India in December, now accounts for about 83% of all sequenced COVID-19 cases in the United States, Center for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said during a Senate hearing Tuesday. The WHO designates delta as a "variant of concern."
Long noted that Houston Methodist has seen its positivity rate increase and hospitalizations rise, but the situation on the ground is still "far below" the winter peak.
"[Infections are] on the increase. How many more cases are we going to get?" Long said. "We're going to need more folks to get vaccinated and folks who aren't vaccinated in particular to practice all the safe practices that we learned through the pandemic to help slow the spread of COVID. All those are critically important to keep this delta wave under control."
At the moment, 51% of Texas' state population aged 12 and up is fully vaccinated, according to state data.
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Texas hospital reports its 1st case of lambda COVID-19 variant - ABC News (go.com)
Texas hospital reports its 1st case of lambda COVID-19 variant
The lambda variant was first detected in Peru in December 2020.
A major Texas hospital system has reported its first case of the lambda COVID-19 variant, as the state reels from the rampant delta variant.
Houston Methodist Hospital, which operates eight hospitals in its network, said the first lambda case was confirmed Monday.
The lambda variant was first detected in Peru in December 2020, according to the World Health Organization and makes up 81% of COVID-19 cases sequenced in the country since April 2021, according to a June WHO report. Currently, WHO designates lambda as a "variant of interest."
Houston Methodist had a little over 100 COVID-19 patients across the hospital system last week. That number rose to 185 Monday, with a majority of those infected being unvaccinated, according to a statement released by the hospital Monday.
Among those infections, about 85% have been diagnosed with the delta variant, hospital officials said.
"We're seeing an alarming spike in the number of COVID-19 cases across the Houston area, with the steepest increase happening over the weekend," Houston Methodist said. "The increased hospitalizations add stress to many of our hospitals that are nearing capacity."
Hospital president and CEO Dr. Marc Boom stressed it is "imperative" that the community "get vaccinated and decrease virus spread."
Despite the report of the lambda variant, experts at Houston Methodist say delta is still the primary concern in the U.S.
"The lambda is the dominant variant in Peru and Peru has had a very difficult time with COVID-19. It shares mutations in common with the alpha variants, the beta, the gamma, which is the dominant variant in Brazil," Dr. Wesley Long, medical director of Diagnostic Microbiology at Houston Methodist, told ABC News.
"I don't think there's sufficient evidence at this point that we should be more concerned about lambda than delta, I still think delta is the primary concern for us. There's a lot more evidence that we have that delta is much more contagious, the viral loads are much higher," he added.
The lambda variant "has been associated with substantive rates of community transmission in multiple countries, with rising prevalence over time concurrent with increased COVID-19 incidence," the WHO said in its June report. In June, the variant was detected in 29 countries.
The delta variant, which was first detected in India in December, now accounts for about 83% of all sequenced COVID-19 cases in the United States, Center for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said during a Senate hearing Tuesday. The WHO designates delta as a "variant of concern."
Long noted that Houston Methodist has seen its positivity rate increase and hospitalizations rise, but the situation on the ground is still "far below" the winter peak.
"[Infections are] on the increase. How many more cases are we going to get?" Long said. "We're going to need more folks to get vaccinated and folks who aren't vaccinated in particular to practice all the safe practices that we learned through the pandemic to help slow the spread of COVID. All those are critically important to keep this delta wave under control."
At the moment, 51% of Texas' state population aged 12 and up is fully vaccinated, according to state data.
UncleBuck
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no i'm not youre just projecting now.
just take the L, learn from it and move on. don't be bitter just because youre fucking stupid and misinformed.
rkymtnman
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don't you know peru is involved in the 2 party scam that is happening here in the us as fresno pointed out long ago
come on DYI< keep up with the conspiracies dammit
I think people are questioning your interpretation of the data. "Becoming infected" isn't much of a bar, but of course we'd prefer not to become infected because we don't want to spread it to others....well....probably not you, because you seem like you probably laugh at masks and distancing and don't care about spreading it to others, but the rest of us anyway. But the purpose of the vaccine is only to reduce the likelihood of ending up in the hospital, in other words, to reduce the risk of severity. It wouldn't surprise me if a person had better resistance through natural antibodies, but are you saying that you think people should risk the outcome with Covid than they should with vaccines?
FresnoFarmer
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Lol have fun guys.
rkymtnman
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you 2.
and the only way to boost your immunity is to expose yourself to as many near death covid patients you can.
you got this!
FresnoFarmer
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I think people should be free to choose to do with their body what they want. I believe in freedom of choice.
FresnoFarmer
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Ok. Go fear!
rkymtnman
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vaccines gave a kid somewhere autism!
Sorry, I saw an article about an Israeli study, not an article about a constitutional argument which nobody is making. Can you clarify what exactly it is you're trying to communicate?
UncleBuck
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captainmorgan
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FF may be a rare super jenius.
DIY-HP-LED
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I believe in mandatory vaccinations for idiots, others are involved and you have no freedom to kill them with stupidity, the community has rights, as well as the individual and they trump individual rights every time.
FresnoFarmer
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That’s not how that works. Just because you’re scared of a virus doesn’t mean that cancels out human rights lol.
FresnoFarmer
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So you don’t believe in freedom of choice or?....
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