UK, 50% omicron now

UK, majority of London cases omicron by tomorrow, Link to free download of my 2 textbooks http://159.69.48.3/ Campbell's Pathophysiology Notes, Amazon orders for the UK, https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B012HWC8SU/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_AYC5Q7G3H2B3T4BCHQY0 Campbell's Physiology Notes https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0955379725/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_K0MXMAP26Y77TY4J90FB https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9zDnYEgX-U London https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9zDnYEgX-U Omicron, 40% of cases Tomorrow, 50% + of cases Boris Johnson At least one UK Omicron death I think the idea that this is somehow a milder version of the virus, I think that’s something we need to set on one side and just recognise the sheer pace at which it accelerates through the population. So the best thing we can do is all get our boosters. Mr Javid https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-59632655 Hospitalisations due to large numbers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwyeCeTfiN8 https://www.lbc.co.uk/radio/presenters/tom-swarbrick/south-africa-top-doc-angelique-coetzee-stresses-omicron-mild/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T0Qiyy854w&t=33s https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-59450988 https://metro.co.uk/2021/12/13/south-african-doctor-who-found-omicron-variant-insists-its-mild-15761122/ South Africa https://www.nicd.ac.za/diseases-a-z-index/disease-index-covid-19/surveillance-reports/daily-hospital-surveillance-datcov-report/ https://www.nicd.ac.za/diseases-a-z-index/disease-index-covid-19/surveillance-reports/covid-19-special-reports/the-initial-and-daily-covid-19-effective-reproductive-number-in-south-africa/ Cyril Ramaphosa, 69, tested positive, Sunday Mild symptoms Louise I am in the Western Cape province in SA where we have just entered our fourth wave, behind other provinces like Gauteng, which seems to have just peaked. Even though our area hasn’t been hit badly by Omicron infections yet, cases are rising quite quickly. Compared to Delta, where you could feel people were very anxious about contracting that variant and almost everyone knew someone in hospital and most knew someone who had died, the mood is definitely different. We are just not hearing about mass hospitalisations like in the third wave and those that are testing positive are mainly feeling flu like symptoms for a few days and then recovering. We are really hopeful that Omicron is definitely much milder. US Cases https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_dailydeaths Hospitalizations https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#hospitalizations Pakistan NIH able to confirm … that a recently suspected sample from Karachi is indeed the Omicron variant France Current 5th wave is delta Martin Hirsch, Paris’s AP-HP hospitals group Omicron variant, next month India Very low rates of infection Essential no social distancing Big political rallies Omicron variant, 36 cases 3% of the virus sequences Thailand 3 months to booster after 2nd dose Indonesia Start vaccinations for 6- to 11-year-olds Western Australia Fully reopen borders on 5 February Expected to hit 90% fully vaccinated target Norway https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2021/dec/13/covid-news-live-boris-johnson-warns-of-omicron-tidal-wave-south-african-president-tests-positive Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere The situation is serious. The spread of infection is too high and we have to take action to limit this development Denmark https://files.ssi.dk/covid19/omikron/statusrapport/rapport-omikronvarianten-12122021-k29d 22nd November to 12 December A total of 2,471 B.1.1.529 (Omicron) SARS-CoV-2 cases in Denmark. Omicron cases are identified through variant PCR and whole-genome sequencing