Tag: Omicron

Jeffrey Tucker: US May Not Know Alternatives to Lockdown, China’s Zero-COVID Strategy

What has the lockdown situation in Shanghai taught the rest of the world? Is the method and invention by a totalitarian regime, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), proving to be correct? Has public health gone too far going into politics? We discuss these questions with Jeffrey Tucker, founder and president of the Brownstone Institute, as…


Will China Ever Reach ‘Zero COVID’?; Why Omicron Is the Hill to Die on for the Communist Party

We explore why China will continue lockdowns even as they prove ineffective against Omicron. At the same time, we take a look at how Shanghai’s COVID-19 response has become a political blockade against Chinese leader Xi Jinping on his quest to get a third term in power. As the humanitarian crisis in Shanghai and other…


BA.2 Omicron Subvariant Now Causes Nearly 90 Percent of US COVID-19 Cases: CDC

The BA.2 Omicron subvariant of the CCP virus is being pegged as responsible for causing the vast majority of COVID-19 cases in the United States, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The data, for the week ending April 9 and released by the federal health agency on April 12, indicates…


England’s Post-Restriction CCP Virus Wave May Have Peaked in Young: Study

CCP virus infections appear to be slowing or falling among young and middle-aged people just over one month after all COVID-19 restrictions were lifted in England, a new study has shown. As part of the UK government’s plan for “living with COVID,” all COVID-19 laws in England were scrapped on Feb. 24, including the legal…


Rep. Schiff Tests Positive for COVID-19

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) has tested positive for COVID-19, he announced on social media on Tuesday evening. “This evening, I unfortunately tested positive for COVID-19,” the lawmaker, who is fully vaccinated and boosted against the novel coronavirus, said in a Twitter post. “I’m feeling fine, and grateful to be vaccinated and boosted. In the coming…


Unrecorded Deaths Plague Aged-Care Facilities in Locked-Down Shanghai

In 20 days, she would turn 100. The family had been counting the days to bring the Shanghai woman in front of 100 small cakes, surrounded by sparkling candles and grandchildren who grew into adults under her loving care. Little did they know that day would never come. The woman tested positive for COVID-19 on…


New COVID-19 Variant XE Found, Possibly More Transmissible Than Omicron: WHO

A COVID-19 Omicron subvariant—known as XE—has been found in the United Kingdom, said the World Health Organization in a new update. The U.N. health body said (pdf) that the subvariant is compromised of genetic material from the two Omicron strains of BA.1 and BA.2. “The XE recombinant (BA.1-BA.2), was first detected in the United Kingdom” in…


China Reports New Omicron Subtype Near Shanghai as City Locks Down Residents

A new subtype of the highly transmissible Omicron variant has been found near Shanghai, where residents are currently under a lockdown. The new iteration of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus was reported by municipal authorities in Suzhou, a city that borders Shanghai, on April 2. The strain was isolated from a local infected patient…


The Truth About the ‘Stealth’ Variant

US officials had predicted that Omicron would be the variant to end the pandemic. However, varying degrees of pandemic lockdown measures are still being carried out in recent weeks, while the new variant in the Omicron family–BA.2 has continued to spread to more than 110 countries based on data from outbreak.info. To differentiate them better,…


Omicron BA.2 Subvariant Accounts for 1 in 3 US COVID-19 Cases: CDC

A subvariant of the Omicron strain of the novel coronavirus, BA.2, now accounts for just over a third of daily reported COVID-19 cases in the United States, according to government data released on Tuesday. As overall infections continue to decline from January’s record highs, the subvariant is gaining ground across the country, data from the…