# Coronavirus COVID-19 (2019-nCoV) Thread - 2022 Breaking News **URL:** \ **Category:** The Quarantine Zone\ **Tags:** covid-quarantine\ **Created:** [January 1, 2022, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2022-breaking-news/957022 "2022-01-01T05:02:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 33
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2022, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2022-breaking-news/957022/643 "2022-06-18T15:30:41Z")
In [positive news](http://nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/anti-vaccine-doctor-sentenced-prison-storming-capitol-jan-6-rcna33938), a California physician, Simone Gold who joined the mob storming the U.S. Capitol on January 6th, 2021 has been sentenced to two months in prison. “Gold founded America’s Frontline Doctors, a group known for purveying Covid-19 misinformation. The Beverly Hills-based doctor, a Stanford Law School graduate, has over 480,000 followers on Twitter. She has condemned Covid-19 lockdowns and promoted the use of unproven and potentially dangerous drugs as coronavirus treatments.” “The judge told Gold that her anti-vaccine activism wasn’t a factor in her sentencing. Cooper said Gold wasn’t a “casual bystander” on Jan. 6.” “The judge also said Gold’s organization has misled supporters into believing her prosecution was politically motivated and trampled on her free speech rights. Cooper called it “unseemly” that America’s Frontline Doctors has invoked the Capitol riot in raising money, including for her salary.” “I think that is a real disservice to the true victims of that day,” he said." Gold, according to the prosecution, has been making $20,000 a month from her organization, America’s Frontline Doctors, so she can probably afford the $9500 fine. Her [credentials](http://motherjones.com/politics/2022/06/simone-gold-insurrectionist-tells-judge-her-elite-credentials-should-keep-her-out-of-prison/) should help her land on her feet after this temporary setback. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2022, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2022-breaking-news/957022/644 "2022-07-07T18:14:58Z")
[https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/3546412-new-omicron-subvariant-ba-5-now-a-majority-of-us-covid-19-cases/](https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/3546412-new-omicron-subvariant-ba-5-now-a-majority-of-us-covid-19-cases/) > BA.5 now makes up 53.6 percent of U.S. cases, according to the CDC, and BA.4 makes up another 16.5 percent, putting the two together at around 70 percent of infections. In other recent news: > **[Yale Researchers Predict COVID-19 Endemic Phase Will Happen in 2024](https://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/yale-researchers-predict-covid-19-endemic-phase-will-happen-in-2024/2820662/)** > > When the COVID-19 pandemic first started, there were so many unanswered questions. Now more than two years in, there are still a lot of mysteries surrounding the ever-evolving virus. The newest subvariant, BA.5, is more contagious than ever. The... ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2022, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2022-breaking-news/957022/645 "2022-07-08T15:30:36Z")
And there’s a new variant in India (based on mutations to BA.2, not to BA.5) that’s causing some concern. > **[New Omicron subvariant Centaurus could be the most immune-evasive yet, expert...](https://fortune.com/2022/07/06/new-omicron-subvariant-centaurus-ba-2-75-world-health-organization-immune-evasive-expert/)** > > BA.2.75 is not currently a variant of concern, according to the World Health Organization. But experts are already raising potential red flags. > [Dr. Eric Topol](https://www.scripps.edu/science-and-medicine/translational-institute/about/people/eric-topol/), a professor of molecular medicine at Scripps Research and founder and director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute, said Monday the new subvariant’s mutations “could make immune escape worse than what we’re seeing now” with BA.5 and BA.4, subvariants known to evade immunity from both vaccination and prior infection. > … > Dubbed Centaurus by researchers, BA.2.75 was first detected in India in early June. … > Its “apparent rapid growth and wide geographical spread” are concerning, he [Tom Peacock, a virologist at the Department of Infectious Diseases at Imperial College in London] added. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2022, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2022-breaking-news/957022/646 "2022-07-20T14:00:29Z")
Dopers need to be aware of The Biggest Crime In Human History - Covid-19 vaccination. Fearless author and maverick investigative journalist Naomi Wolf has got it nailed - there is a “ravening beast” we must confront, which is intent on bringing down Western Civilization through dangerous Covid-19 vaccines, which kill, maim and cause blue-green breast milk.\* The concealed actor (the “ravening beast”) behind all this is the Chinese Communist Party, aided and abetted by tech companies, the World Health Organization, Bill and Melinda Gates, Big Pharma and Joe Biden. You can read all about on Wolf’s Substack, a source of inspiration to antivaxers in the know. \*it’s the first I’ve heard of vaccination causing blue-green breast milk, something They evidently don’t want us to know. Sounds alarming, until you find out that there are actual factors that can cause such hues, namely consuming lots of leafy greens like spinach and kale. Or if you prefer, it’s the vaccines altering your DNA and ultimately producing blue-green babies. 😱 \*\*Wolf used to be a respected feminist author, before plunging deeply down a rabbit hole of conspiracy theories. ---
**Author:** ![duality72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duality72/32/3910_2.png) [@duality72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duality72)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2022, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2022-breaking-news/957022/647 "2022-07-20T14:22:43Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > The concealed actor (the “ravening beast”) behind all this is the Chinese Communist Party, aided and abetted by tech companies, the World Health Organization, Bill and Melinda Gates, Big Pharma and Joe Biden. She must have accidentally left out Colonel Sanders with his wee beady eyes. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2022, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2022-breaking-news/957022/648 "2022-07-20T14:31:17Z")
Wolf wants Nuremberg-style trials for those who instituted pandemic controls and promoted vaccination. “…there is a reason societies display their collaborators and quislings and traitors. There is a reason treason is a capital offense. There is a reason fraud and coercion, battery and child abuse, unlawful detainment and theft and child endangerment, all of which crimes were committed against us “in the pandemic”, are criminal offenses.” > **[It's Not Over. It's Just Begun ⋆ Brownstone Institute](https://brownstone.org/articles/its-not-over-its-just-begun/)** > > The social contract cannot be re-knit without public accountability, confrontations, and even condemnation. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2022, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2022-breaking-news/957022/649 "2022-07-20T19:23:11Z")
She sounds mentally unwell. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2022, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2022-breaking-news/957022/650 "2022-07-21T17:08:31Z")
MSNBC is reporting that Joe Biden tested positive. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2022, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2022-breaking-news/957022/651 "2022-07-21T17:23:24Z")
He seems to be taking it well: [![Imgur](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52232211805_80b325b2d4_b.jpg "20220721\_101646") ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/68782016@N08/52232211805/) /joke ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2022, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2022-breaking-news/957022/652 "2022-07-21T17:28:09Z")
He also has mild symptoms. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2022, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2022-breaking-news/957022/653 "2022-07-27T14:46:33Z")
Bullshit anti-Covid-19 vaccine memes continue to pop up, like monkeypox pustules (sorry for the mixed disease metaphor). The latest is a story being promoted on completely reliable\* websites like Natural News, above top secret and 4chan, about “three (or four) young Ontario doctors” supposedly dropping dead within a week of unknown causes - gotta be due to Covid vaccination! (though there’s zero evidence they were vaccinated recently). As to the “young” doctor part, I tracked down the actual ages of these M.D.s. One was in his mid-40s, another around 50 and a third had to be in his mid-60s based on his educational profile, not to mention having a white beard. I guess “young” is relative. One seemed to be in his mid-30s which is indeed young from a mortality standpoint, but people that age do pass on without warning from cardiac or other causes having nothing to do with vaccination, [including Covid-19 infection](https://khn.org/news/lost-on-the-frontline-health-care-worker-death-toll-covid19-coronavirus/). \*sarcasm intended. ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2022, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2022-breaking-news/957022/654 "2022-07-27T15:13:54Z")
He has tested negative. Slated to give remarks soonish. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2022, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2022-breaking-news/957022/655 "2022-07-27T18:15:27Z")
> **[New studies bolster theory coronavirus emerged from the wild](https://www.yahoo.com/news/studies-bolster-theory-coronavirus-emerged-215249108.html)** > > Two new studies provide more evidence that the coronavirus pandemic originated in a Wuhan, China market where live animals were sold – further bolstering the theory that the virus emerged in the wild rather than escaping from a Chinese lab. The... ---
**Author:** ![teelabrown](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/teelabrown/32/8412_2.png) [@teelabrown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teelabrown)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2022, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2022-breaking-news/957022/656 "2022-07-27T23:17:06Z")
Is there any evidence that China is taking steps to prevent the close housing of live mammals in wet markets? ---
**Author:** ![echoreply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/echoreply/32/3641_2.png) [@echoreply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/echoreply)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2022, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2022-breaking-news/957022/657 "2022-07-28T21:48:37Z")
Thanks for posting about those two studies. I remember seeing them when they were pre-prints, and discussing them on some of the lab-release threads. Quite an endorsement from the scientific community to have them published in _Science_. Seeing as how there was a 9-10 month delay from being in pre-print to published, my guess is that whatever is in the final article has been thoroughly vetted. Also, good job to the author of the Yahoo article, who actually linked to the original articles. So often science journalists forget that part. Here are links to the two articles: [The molecular epidemiology of multiple zoonotic origins of SARS-CoV-2](https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abp8337) [The Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan was the early epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic](https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abp8715) ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2022, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2022-breaking-news/957022/658 "2022-07-30T16:19:53Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > Bullshit anti-Covid-19 vaccine memes continue to pop up, like monkeypox pustules (sorry for the mixed disease metaphor). > > The latest is a story being promoted on completely reliable\* websites like Natural News, above top secret and 4chan, about “three (or four) young Ontario doctors” supposedly dropping dead within a week of unknown causes - gotta be due to Covid vaccination! (though there’s zero evidence they were vaccinated recently). > > As to the “young” doctor part, I tracked down the actual ages of these M.D.s. One was in his mid-40s, another around 50 and a third had to be in his mid-60s based on his educational profile, not to mention having a white beard. I guess “young” is relative. One seemed to be in his mid-30s which is indeed young from a mortality standpoint, but people that age do pass on without warning from cardiac or other causes having nothing to do with vaccination, [including Covid-19 infection](https://khn.org/news/lost-on-the-frontline-health-care-worker-death-toll-covid19-coronavirus/). > > \*sarcasm intended. Update: [it turns out](https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-canada-doctors-deaths-covid-vaccines-352319081218?utm_medium=APFactCheck&utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=SocialFlow) that two of the “young Ontario doctors” had cancer (one had advanced lung cancer) and the oldest one had been seriously ill. No doubt the antivaxers who blamed these deaths on Covid-19 vaccination will apologize and promise not to spread unfounded rumors in the future. 🤨 ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2022, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2022-breaking-news/957022/659 "2022-08-11T21:54:20Z")
The CDC in the U.S., little by little, is nudging America into a couched post-COVID society. Still not 100% risk-free, but close enough to that ideal so that the onus of COVID safety is placed more squarely on the individual than ever before. > **[CDC Newsroom](https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2021/s1227-isolation-quarantine-guidance.html)** > > Press releases, advisories, telebriefings, transcripts and archives. > **[With new guidance, CDC ends test-to-stay for schools and relaxes COVID rules](https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/08/11/1116991600/with-new-guidance-cdc-ends-test-to-stay-for-schools-and-relaxes-covid-rules)** > > Revised guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention looks to minimize COVID-19's disruption of daily life while conceding that the pandemic isn't over. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2022, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2022-breaking-news/957022/660 "2022-08-11T22:02:06Z")
I’m cranky that they are still saying “5 days”, and not “until you get a negative rapid test” or at least “10 days”. I know an awful lot of people who were still positive after 5 days, some with VERY strong antigen reactions. ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2022, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2022-breaking-news/957022/661 "2022-08-11T22:14:09Z")
> [@bordelond](#): > > The CDC in the U.S., little by little, is nudging America into a couched post-COVID society. The above should read " _… into a **hedged** post-COVID society_". In the sense that the CDC is not quite recommending to “_go crazy like it’s 2019!_” … but secretly, they wouldn’t be mad if we did. ---
**Author:** ![Tfletch1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tfletch1/32/5340_2.png) [@Tfletch1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tfletch1)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2022, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2022-breaking-news/957022/662 "2022-08-11T22:50:05Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > I’m cranky that they are still saying “5 days”, and not “until you get a negative rapid test” or at least “10 days”. I know an awful lot of people who were still positive after 5 days, some with VERY strong antigen reactions. I had a strong antigen reaction 8 days after my first positive test. I barely had symptoms to begin with but they had been resolved for several days. I assume I was still contagious at that point. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2022-breaking-news/957022.md?page=32) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2022-breaking-news/957022.md?page=34)