Omicron

How do we pronounce it

  • Om-i-cron

    Votes: 9 47.4%
  • O-micron

    Votes: 7 36.8%
  • Omnicrom, because that's what I heard them say it.

    Votes: 3 15.8%

  • Total voters
    19

PJ Diaz

Well-Known Member
Wow you're a moron. If it turns out infections from it are rising because it evades protection from the vaccine and prior infections that's a bad thing moron. That means we starting over with a new vaccine and the people with previous infections don't have protection either. Maybe you should just shut the fuck up.
It doesn't mean that at all according to the Doctors I've listened to discussing the concerns, but I guess you know better than them. Why would you need a vaccine for a variant that doesn't get people very sick?
 

schuylaar

Well-Known Member
Wow you're a moron. If it turns out infections from it are rising because it evades protection from the vaccine and prior infections that's a bad thing moron. That means we starting over with a new vaccine and the people with previous infections don't have protection either. Maybe you should just shut the fuck up.
now you know why i voted down additional 5% tax on Rec to support Home Schooling..it was a real thing in Colorado i don't know if you live here but the crazies are really crazy here. Colorado has Florida and Texas beat any day.
 

HGCC

Well-Known Member
now you know why i voted down additional 5% tax on Rec to support Home Schooling..it was a real thing in Colorado i don't know if you live here but the crazies are really crazy here. Colorado has Florida and Texas beat any day.
Lol. This is why I have the car machete.
 

PJ Diaz

Well-Known Member
You listen to qtards and cult members so yeah I probably do. Because even mild cases can do serious damage to the human body dumb ass.
I'm not a qanon follower. I have never voted for a Republican in my life. The Doctors I was listening to were on mainstream news outlets.
 

PJ Diaz

Well-Known Member
i don't understand why he's so dismissive of the MILLION dead so far.
I'm not dismissive of it at all, same as I'm not dismissive of the massive number of people who have died from cancer and heart related conditions. That's not what this thread is about though, it's about the Omicron variant, which hasn't killed anyone.
 

PJ Diaz

Well-Known Member
Maybe I'm just not up to date with who's qanon and cult members, but I was just reading this in the Atlantic, which I believe leans left:

Screenshot (16).png
 

printer

Well-Known Member
Well, it does seem to be winning out.
Majority of new COVID-19 cases in South Africa are omicron variant: report
South African health officials said Wednesday the omicron variant accounts for most new cases of COVID-19 in the country.

The National Institute for Communicable Diseases announced that around 75 percent of 249 positive test samples that were genetically examined were tied to the new variant, The New York Times reported.

South Africa reported 8,651 new COVID-19 cases Wednesday, nearly doubling the number of cases the day before. The country has now recorded nearly 3 million cases since the beginning of the pandemic.

The World Health Organization (WHO) announced earlier Wednesday that the omicron variant had reached 23 countries prior to the detection of the first case in the U.S. in California. Omicron spread should not be surprising, WHO director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a news briefing.

Toddlers Make Up 10% of Hospital Cases in Omicron Epicenter
Children under the age of 2 account for about 10% of total hospital admissions in the omicron epicenter Tshwane in South Africa, according to the National Institute for Communicable Diseases.

More kids are being admitted than during the early stages of the country entering the current fourth wave of infections, although a similar trend occurred during the third wave when delta was dominant, said Waasila Jassat, public health specialist at the institute.

South African scientists were last week the first to identify the new variant now known as omicron, and while symptoms have been described as mild, the exact risk from the new strain is still uncertain. Governments across the globe stepped up travel restrictions in response, and the World Health Organization warned that the variant could fuel a fresh surge in infections.

“The very young children have an immature immune system and they are also not vaccinated, so they are more at risk,” said Jassat, who was part of developing and managing South Africa’s national hospital surveillance system for Covid-19.


She said that part of the increased rate of admissions may reflect extra precaution on the part of parents given the new concern about the mutation. A pediatric report due later this week should provide more information.

In Tswane, the municipality that includes the capital Pretoria, 52 children under the age of 2 diagnosed with the coronavirus have been admitted and one has died, Jassat said. It’s not yet clear whether they contracted omicron, currently the region’s dominant strain.

During the delta-driven third wave, hospital admission for those under the age of 19 jumped 43%, and the country has since opened up vaccinations to adolescents between 12 and 17 years.

“It does however appear that in this early part of this wave a higher proportion of children are being admitted than they were in the past,” Jaffat said.

South Africa Could Top 10,000 Daily Covid Cases This Week: Epidemiologist
Health monitors reported over 2,800 new infections on Sunday, up from a daily average of 500 in the previous week and 275 the week before.
The newly-discovered 'Omicron' variant is likely to fuel a surge in South Africa's coronavirus cases that could see daily infections treble this week, a top epidemiologist warned Monday.

Health monitors reported over 2,800 new infections on Sunday, up from a daily average of 500 in the previous week and 275 the week before.

"We can expect that higher transmissibility is likely and so we are going to get more cases quickly," Dr Salim Abdool Karim said at an online health ministry press briefing.

"I am expecting we will top over 10,000 cases by the end of the week per day (and) see pressure on hospitals within the next two, three weeks."

South African scientists announced the new highly-mutated variant on Thursday, blaming it for a sudden rise in infections in Africa's worst-hit nation.

Hospital admissions more than doubled over the past month in Gauteng, South Africa's most populous province and the epicentre of the new outbreak, according to official figures.
 

Roger A. Shrubber

Well-Known Member
It doesn't mean that at all according to the Doctors I've listened to discussing the concerns, but I guess you know better than them. Why would you need a vaccine for a variant that doesn't get people very sick?
well, the longer the virus is active in a body, the more time it has to develop new mutations, and each mutation has the potential to be radically different than it's parent, potentially much more deadly, potentially much harder to resist.
with this particular virus, with mild symptoms, there's a good chance that it will be dismissed as the cold, or the flu, and people won't seek treatment, which will give it that much longer to mutate
 

printer

Well-Known Member
‘The world is watching South Africa’: health experts sift Omicron clues
Health officials worldwide are closely following the fast-rising wave of coronavirus infections in South Africa for clues to explain the heavily mutated Omicron variant.

Of particular concern is that the highly unusual 50 mutations to the virus might enable Omicron to spread faster, while also helping it to evade the immune protection provided by vaccines and previous infection. Others have debated the severity of symptoms related to the new strain. South Africa’s infections have jumped in recent days, driven by a surge in cases in Gauteng province, which includes the cities of Johannesburg and Tshwane. Covid-19 cases have more than tripled in the past week, from below 4,000 in the seven days to November 21 to 13,828 the following week, according to data from South Africa’s National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD).

“It doesn’t look at the moment as if there’s any signal towards increased severity, but it’s early. [In fact], the proportion of patients admitted with severe disease are quite low, and lower than what we’ve seen across the rest of the pandemic,” said Waasila Jassat, a doctor and NICD specialist, adding that the vast majority of admissions had not been vaccinated. Elsewhere in South Africa’s health system, “it’s still early days for us as general practitioners”, said Unben Pillay, a private practice doctor in Gauteng, while noting that he had detected a “very sharp increase” in cases in the past 10 days, often with mild flu-like symptoms. David Stuart, a professor of structural biology at Oxford university, said: “What we’re all hoping for is that because there are so many changes to the virus, and those changes will almost certainly affect the affinity with [receptors in the human body], that Omicron may cause somewhat less severe disease.” Other experts urged caution on placing too much faith in estimating Omicron’s severity before extensive research into the new strain had been completed. “Anecdotes don’t raise any red flags just yet, although we don’t know for sure,” said Abdool Karim.

UCL’s Pillay also cautioned against reading too much into reports of mild symptoms because of South Africa’s young population and because some early outbreaks centred on universities in Pretoria.
 

Roger A. Shrubber

Well-Known Member
i don't want it to be bad, you just don't know what you're talking about.
every person who gets it is an incubator for variants, that means there ARE going to be variants, do you want to gamble hundreds of thousands of times that the variant is going to be less harmful? when it only takes one bad mutation to kill millions?
 

doublejj

Well-Known Member
White House says DOJ will defend government's authority to promote vaccine requirement
 

PJ Diaz

Well-Known Member
i don't want it to be bad, you just don't know what you're talking about.
every person who gets it is an incubator for variants, that means there ARE going to be variants, do you want to gamble hundreds of thousands of times that the variant is going to be less harmful? when it only takes one bad mutation to kill millions?
I don't know what I'm talking about? I'm simply reiterating what the medical professionals are saying, and posted a couple of articles for you to check my math against.
 

doublejj

Well-Known Member
Top