Posted on 12/16/2021 10:41:36 AM PST by Red Badger
Just when the world thought it might have COVID-19 under control, the new variant Omicron began spreading through the population faster than any variant seen before. The variant has been reported in 77 countries, though is likely in more, many European countries have re-entered lockdown, and early data suggests that Omicron is magnitudes more infectious than both the original COVID-19 strain and Delta.
Now, new preliminary research, currently under peer-review, is illuminating just how much more transmissible Omicron is, and the mechanisms that allow it to outcompete delta. The study, led by researchers from the LKS Faculty of Medicine at the University of Hong Kong (HKUMed), found that Omicron may multiply a staggering 70 times faster than the Delta variant in human airways, which could account for how rapidly Omicron has spread.
To identify how Omicron is so successful during infection, the research involved the use of lung tissue removed during lung treatment, which is usually discarded. Once the Omicron variant was isolated, the researchers used their tissue cultures to compare how the variant infects cells and how fast it multiplies post-infection, in both lung and bronchus tissues. Omicron was compared against Delta and the SARS-CoV-2 wild-type that began the pandemic in 2020.
They discovered that Omicron was capable of multiplying rapidly within both the lung and bronchus tissues, around 70 times faster than Delta in the bronchus and 10 times faster than wild-type in the lung.
Omicron is spreading at a rate we have not seen with any previous variant. I need to be very clear: vaccines alone will not get any country out of this crisis. It’s not vaccines instead of masks, distancing, ventilation or hand hygiene. Do it all. Do it consistently. Do it well. pic.twitter.com/YAVfJXsviQ
— Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (@DrTedros) December 14, 2021 Interestingly, despite the impressive viral load Omicron could produce in a short amount of time, it appears to not increase disease severity, with early data suggesting the new variant may result in less severe disease than other variants. The researchers state this is likely due to disease severity resulting from a number of factors.
“It is important to note that the severity of disease in humans is not determined only by virus replication but also by the host immune response to the infection, which may lead to dysregulation of the innate immune system, i.e. ‘cytokine storm’,” said Dr Michael Chan Chi-wai, who led the team, in a statement.
“It is also noted that, by infecting many more people, a very infectious virus may cause more severe disease and death even though the virus itself may be less pathogenic. Therefore, taken together with our recent studies showing that the Omicron variant can partially escape immunity from vaccines and past infection, the overall threat from Omicron variant is likely to be very significant.”
This research is yet to go through peer-review, so is still preliminary. However, coupled with research published Tuesday suggesting Omicron may be capable of infection with a lower viral dose than both Delta and wild-type, it appears that the mutations Omicron is carrying within the Spike protein enables it to be more transmissible and more infectious than previous COVID-19 strains, allowing it to outcompete them.
However, the threat of "dual infection" from both the Omicron and Delta variant at the same time, leading to the emergence of a new hybrid "super-mutation" variant is low, experts say.
I guess that explains why the bodies are stacking up 70 times faster.
Moronic virus fear porn ratcheting up......
But does it make you sick? Or has it become one of those micro organisms that keeps you healthy?
I’ve had a heavy bacterial infection for days now. The Lacto Bacillus organisms have been spreading thru my whole family like wildfire.
Dr. Makary on ‘Kilmeade Show’: Omicron fear fueling a ‘second pandemic of lunacy’
Fox News ^ | 12/16/2021 | Fox News Staff
Posted on 12/16/2021, 10:42:56 AM by ChicagoConservative27
Fox News contributor Dr. Marty Makary warned against a new “wave of fear” taking hold over the omicron variant, warning it could fuel a “pandemic of lunacy” in the post COVID-19 era. The professor of health policy at Johns Hopkins University joined the “Brian Kilmeade Show” on Thursday to discuss the new variant, explaining it appears to be statistically milder than others.
Dr. Makary on ‘Kilmeade Show’: Omicron fear fueling a ‘second pandemic of lunacy’!
Makary says Omicron looking more like ‘omi-cold’ based on data so far.
From the article:
“a study just came out of the University of Hong Kong telling us that omicron does not invade the lung tissue that’s deep in the respiratory tract. It stays superficial in the nose and bronchus. So that’s why we’re seeing a common cold-like illness. This new scientific data from the lab explains the epidemiological data and the bedside observation of doctors that this is far more mild… and that’s why I call it omi-cold.”
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com …
https://www.foxnews.com/media/omicron-covid-fear-pandemic-lunacy-makary-kilmeade
She missed her couch but a nice scene anyway.
This is actually pretty serious and you shouldn’t close your mind to it.
Kind of like a cold.
My son in law got tested yesterday and came back positive. They were trying to tell him it was “O”.
He knows they need to do genetic testing. My daughter, his wife, works for the company doing testing. There is No WAY on earth they are going genetic testing for a walk in COVID clinic.
The good news is he has 10 days off before Christmas. The better news is that he can keep his idiot family away for ten days (his brothers and cousins are idiots—not my side. At least that’s what he tells us!)
Yeah, it spreads faster, but it’s more mild.
Coronaviruses are responsible for the common cold.
Where is Fraudci sending his gain of function research these days, now that
his Wuhan op has been exposed?
This looks like something he would love to insert more HIV AIDS bits into.
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RESEARCH
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Baric and Shi email
https://usrtk.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/NAS_Galveston_ZLS_Emails_2017_Baric-Files.pdf
Ecohealth proposal to DARPA
https://drasticresearch.files.wordpress.com/2021/09/main-document-preempt-volume-1-no-ess-hr00118s0017-ecohealth-alliance.pdf
NIH Moderna docs
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6935295-NIH-Moderna-Confidential-Agreements
Dr Baric’s 2005 progress report:
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DoD Emergency Supplemental Appropriations
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-109publ148/html/PLAW-109publ148.htm
Dr Baric 2007 research update
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17222058/
Dr Shi and Peter Daszak research update
https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s12250-013-3402-x.pdf
US funding to Ecohealth Alliance
https://www.usaspending.gov/award/ASST_NON_R01AI110964_7529
Dr Baric and Dr Shi 2015 published research
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4797993/
Dr Baric issues first correction (2016)
https://www.nature.com/articles/nm0416-446d
Dr Shi publishes her own research (2017)
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Wuhan 2020 published research
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Dr Baric’s 2020 research correction
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7242891/
CDC emails
https://www.scribd.com/document/536749738/CDC-Emails#download&from_embed
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“This is actually pretty serious and you shouldn’t close your mind to it.”
Explain.
You think this one is bad, wait until the next one and the next one, and the next one.
They haven’t anywhere near run out of Greek letters yet...............
"Worse than Delta?"
Ugh. There is nothing to see here except the equivalent of a common cold. Yet health authorities are losing their minds. I am telling you 10 years from now we will still have COVID vaccinations and mask wearing.
Good. Natural immunity for everyone soon.
Due to one of the mutations in the S-protein, some PCR tests give a different result for Omicron, called an "S-Gene Target Failure" (SGTF). There were earlier variants that caused this result, but Omicron is the only one circulating now. Most "O" cases right now are identified by a positive PCR test with an SGTF. So the lab might have been correct. Or they might be BSing.
A RNA virus has never been “controlled.” They carry within themselves the seeds of their own demise.
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