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It's unclear if the new subvariant causes any unfamiliar symptoms that haven't already been documented by other Omicron subvariants.

As part of a new risk evaluation released Wednesday, the World Health Organization bumped EG.5 to the same standing as XBB.1.5 and XBB.1.6, which are also members of the Omicron family tree.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

God, it was such a horrible idea for our governments to stop tracking covid properly. Straight up criminal neglect. It's terrifying to watch.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

[actionable threat of violence directed at a public official]

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Christ, I'm actually frustrated that everyone's stopped caring about COVID and that the US has started discouraging people from taking precautions (like COVID tests no longer being free). I know COVID will probably never fully leave at this point, and I'd be a bit more accepting if everyone had just come straight out and said, "there's nothing more we can do right now" after making a real effort to fight it. However, I know they never actually made an effort to stop it, they just waited until enough people had become desensitized and then started pushing people back out into public spaces because fuck you.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I never had COVID until everyone stopped caring about it. I'm on my 4th time having now.

Do not recommend.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Or at least told people they were desensitized, and the people mostly believed what they were told about themselves, as usually happens.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

It's unclear if the new subvariant causes any unfamiliar symptoms that haven't already been documented by other Omicron subvariants.

Thankfully, the rates of anosmia and ageusia seem to be dropping.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Stolen from Hexbear