Fri Aug 25, 2023 – 5:18 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) – The latest variant of COVID-19 may be more likely to infect those who have received current vaccines for the virus or who have been previously infected, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) admitted in an update this week.
In a risk assessment summary published August 23, the CDC covers a newly detected COVID variant being labeled BA.2.86, which is confirmed to have infected at least two individuals in America so far.
“BA.2.86 may be more capable of causing infection in people who have previously had COVID-19 or who have received COVID-19 vaccines,” the summary says, and may be better at circumventing both types of immunity due to its “large number of variations.” At the same time, “there is no evidence that this variant is causing more severe illness,” although “it is too soon to know” for sure.
Still, the CDC urges Americans to “Get your COVID-19 vaccines, as recommended” in defense against this variant.
The admission appears to further undermine the government’s insistence that every American take the controversial shots, which were developed and released under former President Donald Trump’s Operation Warp Speed
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