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Viruses. Undead pathogens: the borrower and destroyer of life. (Part 5) COVID-19

Could China's 2022 COVID crisis morph into a COVID pandemic part two? China's immunity rates have fallen and may need vast immunization programs again to offset the COVID variants. 2020 redux?

Twitter under Elon Musk revs up COVID misinformation overkill. While China could become the most infected country on the planet, ripe for a new and possibly deadlier COVID variant to evolve. Could 2023 be the year of COVID 2.0?

New COVid strains are spreading throughout Asia and Germany. All restrictions and protocols for COVID-19 have been abandoned after Biden's "pandemic is over" remark on television. Overconfidence is a curse and we maybe about to get served another brutal reminder that the pandemic is still ongoing.

China's COVID wave is already ripping through the populace as Chinese authorities are now not reporting any new infections or deaths. With modeling suggesting that China's infections of an under immunized population, could lead to 2 million deaths.

I caught the 'Pirola' (BA.2.86) variant: October 22nd 2023 (*update*)

Markets are now seeing signs of the "All Open" Chinese COVID policy, as their authorities have scrapped all government testing. Workers are starting to call in sick. China's covid surge could be devastating .

China's Covid situation is dire as 2020 supply chain shocks may return in 2023. The Baltic Dry index (shipping) is down 20% since China changed from lockdowns to all out virus infections. Chinese exports are also heading south as Chinese workers are becoming sick, crimping factory output.

Viruses. Undead pathogens: the borrower and destroyer of life. (Part 4) COVID-19

Two dominate breakout strains of COVID-19 from Singapore (XBB) and Germany (BQ.1.1) could end up becoming a global pandemic.

IS the world heading towards another end year COvid surge? BA.7 subvariant lurks.

XBB from Singapore is turning out to be the dominate OMICRON variant. Australia is about to enter its forth COVID wave, with XBB that evades immunity from vaccines and previous infections. Unlike the flu vaccines, the COVID vaccines may not be able to keep up with non-seasonal outbreaks.

NEw COVID variant BA.2.86 detected that surpasses the XBB strains in virulence. W.H.O has designated it as a 'Variant under monitoring'.

Are the new Covid variants already upon us?

Chinese COVID 'bomb' has been dropped. Estimation are at over a million cases per day, with daily death rate of 9000. The U.S., Japan and Italy have imposed COVID testing on arriving Chinese tourists, as the main variant spreading throughout China is BF.7