NEW - Angelique Coetzee, the doctor who discovered Omicron in South Africa, was reportedly pressured by European governments not to say the variant causes mostly mild symptoms.
Former FDA Head: ‘We have so much omicron immunity’, will prevent any new variant from “really taking off”
NEW - Rapid spread of #Omicron variant is associated with an infection advantage over Delta in vaccinated persons, a new study finds.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.01.22.22269660v1
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NEW - Today, the German parliament begins debating whether to make vaccination compulsory for its population, while other countries are already easing restrictions in light of the milder #Omicron variant.
Recently, protests against compulsory vaccination in Germany were held in up to 2,000 towns and cities on the same day.
NEW - No cause for concern: BA.2 form of #Omicron: "No differences in hospitalizations," according to an initial analysis by Denmark's Statens Serum Institute.
UK Health Security Agency has designated the "Omicron variant sub-lineage" BA.2 as a variant under investigation.
NEW - Russia's Sputnik V shows higher #Omicron-antibody levels than Pfizer's mRNA vaccine in preliminary study (Reuters)
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UPDATE - Johnson: No further restrictions BEFORE Christmas. Data on
#Omicron "severity and hospitalizations uncertain."
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- The New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is about to get school by COVID.
- Her draconian lockdown and zero Covid policy is going to be shown not to be effective at all.
- The island nation will prove that the
#COVID vaccinations do not work.
About 93% of New Zealanders aged 12 and over are fully vaccinated and 52% have had a booster shot. The country has just begun vaccinating children aged between 5 and 11.
It's going to be interesting to see how fast she reverses her "New Zealand will not impose lockdown when omicron hits" policy, when
#omicron hits. -
We should all run out and get
#Omicron. Its mildIt does what the vaccine's do not do, once you have had it you have immunity!
NEW - Angelique Coetzee, the doctor who discovered Omicron in South Africa, was reportedly pressured by European governments not to say the variant causes mostly mild symptoms.
Former FDA Head: ‘We have so much omicron immunity’, will prevent any new variant from “really taking off”
NEW - Rapid spread of #Omicron variant is associated with an infection advantage over Delta in vaccinated persons, a new study finds.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.01.22.22269660v1
@disclose
NEW - Today, the German parliament begins debating whether to make vaccination compulsory for its population, while other countries are already easing restrictions in light of the milder #Omicron variant.
Recently, protests against compulsory vaccination in Germany were held in up to 2,000 towns and cities on the same day.
- The New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is about to get school by COVID.
- Her draconian lockdown and zero Covid policy is going to be shown not to be effective at all.
- The island nation will prove that the
#COVID vaccinations do not work.
About 93% of New Zealanders aged 12 and over are fully vaccinated and 52% have had a booster shot. The country has just begun vaccinating children aged between 5 and 11.
It's going to be interesting to see how fast she reverses her "New Zealand will not impose lockdown when omicron hits" policy, when #omicron hits.
NEW - No cause for concern: BA.2 form of #Omicron: "No differences in hospitalizations," according to an initial analysis by Denmark's Statens Serum Institute.
UK Health Security Agency has designated the "Omicron variant sub-lineage" BA.2 as a variant under investigation.