New Covid strain spreading across the UK that's less likely to cause symptoms

[zouzounaki]

published earlier today:

https://www.who.int/news/item/28-11-2021-update-on-omicron


Severity of disease: It is not yet clear whether infection with Omicron causes more severe disease compared to infections with other variants, including Delta. Preliminary data suggests that there are increasing rates of hospitalization in South Africa, but this may be due to increasing overall numbers of people becoming infected, rather than a result of specific infection with Omicron. There is currently no information to suggest that symptoms associated with Omicron are different from those from other variants. Initial reported infections were among university students—younger individuals who tend to have more mild disease—but understanding the level of severity of the Omicron variant will take days to several weeks. All variants of COVID-19, including the Delta variant that is dominant worldwide, can cause severe disease or death, in particular for the most vulnerable people, and thus prevention is always key.

 

[Mr Ripple]

First detected in SA on the 23rd and reported to the WHO by SA on the 24th? Mebe a little premature to be drawing too many conclusions just yet?

Dr Angelique Coetzee Chair of the South African Medical Council said in her vt that she is currently working in the South African Covid Epicenter and first noticed it on 18th November after a patient came into her practice with a scratchy throat, aches and pains but no cough.
He tested positive as did all of his family and none of the cases she or any of her colleagues have identified since have lead to hospitalisation.
I'll remain optimistic and hopeful about the Omicron Varient.

 

[Mitz]

I'll remain hopeful about the Omicron Varient.

So will I.

 

["Misfit"]

Dont know how acurate the source is, so dont shoot me.
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/covid-variant-threat-worldwide-scramble-81417682

 

[zouzounaki]

that south african doctor’s interview was on andrew marr. i’m not sure everybody is as confident as she is that the symptoms will be less severe. they had the medical director from moderna on after her, who seemed a bit more concerned.

 

[zouzounaki]

Dont know how acurate the source is, so dont shoot me.
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/covid-variant-threat-worldwide-scramble-81417682
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that’s quite interesting, the SA doctor on andrew marr said there had been no hospitalisations. but that seemed contradicted to a point by the WHO thing i quoted above.

 

["Misfit"]

Does this new strain mean another fucking booster ?

 

[zouzounaki]

it looks like it. they are devising it as we type.

 

["Misfit"]

it looks like it. they are devising it as we type.

So we're never gonna be fully vaccinated ?

 

["Misfit"]