“The latest COVID-19 variant appears to be much less virulent than its predecessors, causing fewer hospitalizations and a lower rate of symptoms. While it’s always possible that a new, more serious variant will rise in the future, the history of respiratory viruses suggests that we are witnessing a long-term process of diminishing virulence that may eventually relegate COVID-19 to the rank of common cold,” notes The Doomslayer.
The BBC explains:
Covid-19 is now ubiquitous – but hospitalizations seem to be on a downward trajectory….In the US, infectious disease specialists braced themselves for an immediate surge in hospitalizations in the wake of the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. But it didn’t happen. Surveillance testing carried out by measuring Covid in wastewater samples across major cities indicated that XEC was definitely infecting people. However, the numbers of people actually ending up in hospital was considerably less than previous winters. According to CDC data, the rate of hospitalizations at the start of Dec 2023 was 6.1 per 100,000 people. During the equivalent week in December 2024, that had fallen to two per 100,000 people.
“Right now, we’re seeing pretty low levels of people who are critically ill, even though there’s an astronomical amount of Covid in wastewater,” says Peter Chin-Hong, a professor in the Health Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of California, San Francisco….Covid in 2025 is a milder disease. The once common symptoms of loss of taste and smell are becoming less common. And though some people are being hospitalised and dying, Chin-Hong says the vast majority of people will either be asymptomatic or experience a cold so mild that some might well mistake it for a seasonal allergy, such as a pollen complaint. While immunocompromised individuals are still particularly vulnerable, he believes that the major risk factor for more severe Covid is now simply being over the age of 75….Even when patients are admitted to hospital, the treatment protocols have changed markedly in the last two to three years. Chin-Hong recalls that anticoagulants or blood thinning medications would immediately be administered to lower the chances of clotting, but this is now no longer considered necessary. While steroids such as dexamethasone are still used in certain severe cases, he says that these tend to be exceptions, with antivirals being the predominant treatment needed.
In other news, the CIA now says that COVID-19 leaked from a lab, in all probability. The Energy Department and FBI previously concluded that COVID-19 likely was leaked from a Chinese laboratory. In 2023, the London Sunday Times reported that COVID-19 was engineered by the Chinese military using US funding. The U.S. funding came through the EcoHealth Alliance, as critics of Anthony Fauci previously surmised.
This is not the only virus to come from a Chinese lab. An earlier “Russian flu” that killed 700,000 also likely came from a lab leak in China. Yet, when people like evolutionary biologist Bret Weinstein suggested the possibility that the virus leaked from a Chinese government lab in 2020, they were dismissed by the mainstream media as kooks. In February 2021, Facebook banned any mentions of the lab leak, following “consultations” with “the World Health Organization.” But the possibility was always obvious to experts. In private, Anthony Fauci and NIH officials worried about the possibility of a lab leak they publicly denied as a “conspiracy theory.”
Yet, in a fact-check it later retracted, PolitiFact gave a Tucker Carlson guest a “Pants on Fire” for the “debunked conspiracy theory” that COVID came from a lab. MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace similarly claimed that “Donald Trump [is] turning his intelligence community to now investigate a conspiracy theory about COVID coming from a lab in Wuhan.” And when Republican Senator Tom Cotton suggested the virus came from a lab, the Washington Post similarly implied that it was a conspiracy theory, reporting that “Sen. Cotton (R-Ark.) repeated a fringe theory suggesting ongoing spread of a coronavirus is connected to research in the disease-ravaged epicenter of Wuhan.” A New York Times reporter dismissed the possibility of a lab leak, saying that the lab leak theory has “racist roots.” In 2020, the Associated Press dubbed the COVID-19 lab leak theory a debunked conspiracy theory.
