The variant is called EG.5 and is a descendant of Omicron.

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention estimated that EG.5 accounted for roughly 17.3 per cent — or one in six — of new COVID-19 cases in the U.S. in the past two weeks.

  • Takatakatakatakatak@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    You have said it very well.

    In Australia even our absolute harshest lockdowns made allowances for millions of “essential” industries.

    Unless you owned a business installing styrofoam nuns, you kept going to work in some capacity.

    We’re an island for fuck’s sake! We could have stopped this thing in it’s tracks. But no, the flights must keep arriving. Business must business.