The new variant does have symptoms of a cold. It shares its genetic make-up with the common-cold causing coronavirus. It's probably why it's so much more infectious.
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Then theoretically.....it will act more like the cold then rather than the flu.
Which would suggest that it's both moving closer to the cold than ever before rather than mutating into the plague.
Just sounding off , we will find out either way.
Well yeah that's what the early evidence shows but because it's so infectious it's going to hit a lot of people in a short amount of time. Hence the booster jabs (70% protection from any symptoms) and the new mask measures etc
Tbh Toff that info is from a non peer reviewed preprint and there weren’t that many genes that were the same - seen a few folks who usually know their stuff be a bit skeptical on the conclusion so would be a tad wary as stating it as definite until get more data.
Know it not a risk that most of us will ever face but Ebola vaccines are bloody brilliant as are the public health teams that deal with it.
Strewth.
I just went on Facebook and read some of the 868 replies to a WHO advert which said that the vast majority of people feel mild or no side effects after a vaccine, and now I want the virus to wipe out the human race.
I just went on Facebook and read some of the 868 replies to a WHO advert which said that the vast majority of people feel mild or no side effects after a vaccine, and now I want the virus to wipe out the human race.
okay mate, fair enough, though it's definitely looking likely... There' 3/4 that we know of that cause the common cold. It wouldn't be at all unlikely for this one to be much more transmissible because of that.
If the evidence was there that it wasn't mild, I'd be much more sceptical. But people have seemed to scoff at the SA data a bit which has been annoying. And now the official studies here have said a 29% drop in the severity from Delta.
However, what we don't know is if that's definitely because it's a milder strain OR if it's because this strain is hitting populations that have some immunity (whether through vaccines or natural infection or both).
I've seen it suggested, and obviously we don't know for sure yet either way, that Omicron could be just as severe as Delta if it hit a population that had no immunity (i.e. as it the original COVID wave did in March last year)
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… then we get to determine what is a cold and what is COVID…
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So tons more positive cases (30k) and fewer deaths than a week ago.
Obviously, it's still horrendous numbers, but if this is the start of Omicron hitting (which it almost certainly is) then hopefully we don't see the deaths shoot up. I know that obviously there's a lag so that the people dying are likely to have died from Delta strain anyway
So if this thing is doubling every two days - we should see 160,000 cases tomorrow?
23 million cases per day in Britain within a fortnight.
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