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Our savior Omicron. The ultimate vaccinator. Nature finally had mercy on us.
by rafale 5y ago
Our savior Omicron. The ultimate vaccinator. Nature finally had mercy on us.
- politician 5y agoToo bad they skipped a letter in naming it; it would've been some good PR for China. https://www.rapidtables.com/math/symbols/greek_alphabet.html https://www.rapidtables.com/math/symbols/greek_alphabet.html
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- chasd00 5y agoi wonder what countries like China and New Zealand who are taking a zero COVID approach are going to do. COVID is endemic in the rest of the world except for those places where it doesn't exist at all? I don't see that working.
- amanaplanacanal 5y agoAre they still doing zero Covid now?
- nradov 5y agoChina is still pursuing a zero COVID policy. Personally I think that's bad policy, but they're sticking to it. https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/03/china/xian-covid-outbreak-lockdown-mic-intl-hnk/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/03/china/xian-covid-outbreak-loc...
- soperj 5y agoNew Zealand isn't doing Covid Zero any more since October.
- mullingitover 5y agoOmicron isn't significantly more contagious than Delta for the unvaccinated, however. It's just that the vaccinated can spread omicron, so anyone who wasn't vaccinated and managed to dodge infection for this long is now in nightmare-level difficulty when it comes to remaining uninfected.
- nradov 5y agoOmicron appears to be significantly more contagious than Delta for everyone including the unvaccinated. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2600(21)00559-2/fulltext https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2...
- mullingitover 5y agoThere's a preprint for a study of 12,000 households in Denmark that seems to offer evidence to the contrary[1]. Take my earlier claim with a grain of salt, I'm not an epidemiologist, but this is what an epidemiologist told me. > Surprisingly, we observed no significant difference between the SAR of Omicron versus Delta among unvaccinated individuals (Table 3). This indicates that the increased transmissibility of the Omicron VOC primarily can be ascribed to immune evasion rather than an inherent increase in the basic transmissibility. If this observation can be confirmed by independent studies, it has important ramifications for the understanding of the current challenges for control of the epidemic [1] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.27.21268278v1.full.pdf https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.27.21268278v...