Omicron positive news

Omicron, Guess work so far More transmissibility Some vaccine escape Some natural infection escape Causing reinfections in SA in people that had had infection and vaccination Mostly mild symptoms in the vaccinated Effecting younger people Sinovac recipients may do well Global within the week Lateral flow tests still work Every vaccinated and unvaccinated person will encounter this variant Tiredness, headache, body aches, scratchy throat, dry cough Netherlands https://www.dw.com/en/omicron-present-in-netherlands-earlier-than-thought-say-health-authorities/a-59977047 Omicron present at least a week Before 13 (out of 61) passengers from South Africa found to be omicron positive National Institute for Public Health (RIVM) https://www.rivm.nl/en November 19th and 23rd Omicron variant in two test samples (South Africa announced they had identified omicron November 26th) (First Belgium case, 24th November) (Botswana on November 11th) It is not yet clear whether the people concerned (in the earlier cases) had also been to southern Africa Tracking down some 5,000 passengers from South Africa, Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, Zimbabwe Michael Hoelscher, Department for Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Munich University Hospital We're finding an increasing number of variant cases all around Europe, and in fact we believe that the introduction of those variants has been ongoing for a few weeks already What we are also seeing is that there are now first cases of community transmission, so it's within Europe, and the travel bans will probably delay the spread of the disease a little bit but will not be able to hold it up US President Biden Cause for concern not a cause for panic Get boosted No new US lockdown Sequencing 80,000 samples per week Moderna No tweaked vaccine until 2022 Endemic with yearly vaccines UK 13 England, 9 Scotland omicron cases All 5 English cases linked to southern Africa Scotland Nine omicron cases so far Scotland Chief Medical Officer Gregor Smith Not aware of anyone dying of the omicron variant as of yet Boosting boosters https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html Prime Minister, throw everything at it Next Thursday Finished by end of Jan, next 2 months Sites all over the place Boosters to all over 18 Gap between 2nd dose and boosters, cut to three months From December 1, doctors, £15 per jab £20 for Sunday and Bank Holiday 400 soldiers will help The best thing to happen? https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10253611/Could-Omicron-GOOD-news-Variant-speed-end-pandemic-causes-mild-illness.html Professor Karl Lauterbach, clinical epidemiologist (Germany's next health minister) Could mean omicron it is optimised to infect, in line with how most respiratory viruses evolve Professor Paul Hunter The theory may prove to be true ? levels of protection from previous infection in SA High levels of previous infection and vaccination, offering protection Franco Locatelli, president of Italy's Higher Health Council Not overly concerned by the new variant May be more contagious but it is not more dangerous than other strains The time it took to become predominant was much less compared to other variants But we don't have any evidence to suggest it can provoke more serious illness or evade the protective effect of vaccines in a major way Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices