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Omicron Spreads Faster Than Delta Within Vaccinated Individuals: Danish Study
Epoch Times ^ | 01/04/2022 | Naveen Athrappully

Posted on 01/04/2022 6:50:22 PM PST by SeekAndFind

A Danish study of nearly 12,000 households has discovered that Omicron spreads faster than Delta among those who are fully vaccinated, and even higher between those who have received booster shots, demonstrating strong evidence of the variant’s immune evasiveness.

The Omicron variant was found to evade the immunity of vaccinated individuals at a much faster pace compared to Delta, and at a higher rate than the unvaccinated, according to the study conducted by researchers at the University of Copenhagen, Statistics Denmark, and Statens Serum Institut.

“Comparing households infected with the Omicron to Delta VOC, we found an 1.17 times higher SAR for unvaccinated, 2.61 times higher for fully vaccinated and 3.66 times higher for booster-vaccinated individuals, demonstrating strong evidence of immune evasiveness of the Omicron VOC,” said the preprint of the study. SAR refers to secondary attack rate.

However, the study also discovered that unvaccinated individuals spread the virus more easily than those who are fully vaccinated, while there was reduced transmission between people who received booster shots.

There were altogether 11,937 households involved in the study, out of which 2,225 already had Omicron. After one to 7 days, the team followed up with the households and found 6,397 secondary infections. The SAR was found to be 31 percent with the Omicron, and 21 percent with the Delta variant.

Omicron has spread to 90 countries worldwide and has become the dominant variant in the United States. However, the strain has proven to cause mild symptoms compared to earlier variants like Delta, and results in fewer hospitalizations.

“The Omicron VOC (variant of concern) has been reported to be three to six times as infectious as previous variants, with a short doubling time, including early estimates from countries with a high vaccination coverage indicating doubling times of 1.8 days (UK), 1.6 days (Denmark), 2.4 days (Scotland) and 2.0 days (United States),” from the study.

The researchers also suggested considering alternate methods for combating the infection. “Our data indicate that the non-pharmaceutical interventions that were used to control the previous variants of SARS-CoV-2 are also likely to be effective against the Omicron VOC.”

Seventy-eight percent of Danish citizens are fully vaccinated with two doses, while almost half have received a booster shot. More than 80 percent have received Pfizer-BioNTech’s vaccine.

The effectiveness of vaccines is reduced to around 40 percent for symptoms and 80 percent for severe disease with the Omicron variant. Numbers were better with booster shots as the effectiveness was reduced only to 86 percent for symptoms and 98 percent respectively for those suffering from severe infection.

The vaccination effectiveness with Pfizer-Biotech for preventing infection with the Omicron variant is only 35 percent, the study found. “The advantage of the Omicron VOC seems to be a combination of high transmissibility and increased immune evading abilities.”

“We therefore suggest that adapted or improved vaccines may be necessary to mitigate the spread of the Omicron VOC.”

The Danish team added that more studies are required to understand the latest COVID-19 variant, as they concluded, “Our results confirm that booster vaccination has the potential to reduce Omicron VOC transmission in households, although vaccination as a strategy for epidemic control is increasingly challenged by the immune evasiveness of the Omicron VOC.”

A preprint of the study was published on Dec. 27, and it has not yet been peer-reviewed.



TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: denmark; omicron; spread; vaccination
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To: SeekAndFind

“Fellas, trust me. You’re gonna want more cowbell!”


21 posted on 01/05/2022 5:52:59 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (What are the long term effects of the covid jab?)
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To: Uncle Miltie

“Comparing households infected with the Omicron to Delta VOC, we found an 1.17 times higher SAR for unvaccinated, 2.61 times higher for fully vaccinated and 3.66 times higher for booster-vaccinated individuals”

Read that over and over.


22 posted on 01/05/2022 5:57:44 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (What are the long term effects of the covid jab?)
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To: BeauBo
So you are wrong, and you were rude about it.

You should apologize.

I do apologize that you have taken offense to the gentle ribbing over the outrageous misinformation that you have continued to repeat over and over again in this forum. However, you are the one who is completely wrong. Sorry.

Omicron is more immune evasive, because it is more different in appearance (over 50 mutations).

Omicron looks and acts so differently because it likely is not even a direct descendant of the original Fauci/CCP bio-engineered version of Covid. It is much more likely to be just a distant cousin which causes a false positive in PCR tests.

The PCR tests for the Fauci/CCP version already have a long and embarrassing record of reacting to various pathogens other than the one they are supposed to be detecting. Why has this happened so frequently in the recent past? The tests are searching for genetic material that looks like Covid and their sensitivity levels which have been defined mostly by amplification to a high cycle threshold (CT). Any PCR test with a Cycle Threshold more than 35 can be counted on to give a positive result nearly 100% of the time. There has been a hidden hand on the scale imposed by the authorities on various labs depending on the results that they desired.

But this is not apparently the issue with PCR tests giving false positives with Omicron. The variant just plain short circuits the tests and causes a false positive from samples taken from asymptomatic people. The vast majority have been forced to take tests due to government and private industry regulations for employment or travel or the desire to go on a cruise or participate in some other activity that is now requiring a negative test to participate. It has caused absurd situations all across the country.

On the fire department that I retired from the “unvaxxed” were scheduled to be fired due to an order from our governor. But they have not been fired because the highest percentage in the department's history are currently off sick “because of Covid”. In reality the vast majority who are “off sick” have symptoms that are nonexistent or would typically be ignored but they do have positive PCR tests. Strangely, those who have not been vaccinated and who have been receiving weekly tests have not been part of this trend and are being forced to work mandatory overtime instead of being fired. It is absurd.

There is a vaccine protective effect, it is just relatively less protective against Omicron then Delta.

This is absolute and complete nonsense. There is no study proving this for omicron and all observational data available at this point suggests that the opposite is true. But you will continue to spread this nonsense for months even after the “vaccines” have been proven conclusively to cause severe damage to people's immune responses.

23 posted on 01/05/2022 8:14:14 AM PST by fireman15
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To: fireman15

“There is a vaccine protective effect, it is just relatively less protective against Omicron then Delta.”

“This is absolute and complete nonsense. There is no study proving this for omicron and all observational data available at this point suggests that the opposite is true.”

That is absolute and complete nonsense. The opposite of a vaccine protective effect would either be absolutely no protective effect, or a negative effect (meaning that infection is more likely if vaccinated).

Sorry to say brother, but you are off in LaLa Land with those theories.

https://www.discovery.co.za/corporate/news-room

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/31/omicron-hospitalization-risk-upside-vaccine-protection-good-uk-study-.html

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/pfizer-vaccine-protecting-against-hospitalisation-during-omicron-wave-study-2021-12-14/


24 posted on 01/05/2022 3:14:08 PM PST by BeauBo
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To: BeauBo
That is absolute and complete nonsense. The opposite of a vaccine protective effect would either be absolutely no protective effect, or a negative effect (meaning that infection is more likely if vaccinated).

Very funny that you have hit the nail on the head. Data from numerous locations all over the world is now coming in that suggest that the vaccines actually do have a “negative effect” when it comes to omicron. There are so many that it is difficult to fine some of the most impressive that I just saw yesterday.

From personal experience. The fire department that I retired from where I was a senior Hazmat officer... currently has the highest percentage of employees off sick in its history. They now have mandatory overtime. Because of an order from our governor, they were just about to fire all of the unvaccinated employees just like Spokane and Seattle recently did. But they can't because they need the unvaccinated employees to cover for all the vaccinated employees that are off sick. Omicron just saved their jobs.
There is a lot going on right now and you apparently do not know anything at all about it. Sad.

Here are just a few links, but it's an avalanche that somehow big tech and the media have not been able to contain.

In South Africa the numbers are showing negative efficacy for the vaccines against Omicron.

https://nakedemperor.substack.com/p/negative-vaccine-efficacy-against

In Holand we find the same thing.

https://rightsfreedoms.wordpress.com/2021/12/27/danish-cohort-study-finds-negative-effectiveness-of-mrna-vaccines-against-omicron-90-days-after-2-injections/

Germany - negative efficacy!

https://www.nooows.com/2022/01/01/more-evidence-of-negative-vaccine-efficacy-against-omicron/

Ireland -negative efficacy!

https://www.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus_Ireland/comments/rlhwuw/boosters_show_negative_vaccine_efficacy_for_cases/

https://www.theepochtimes.com/cdc-omicron-now-95-percent-of-all-new-us-covid-19-cases_4192999.html?utm_source=partner&utm_campaign=whatfinger

https://freewestmedia.com/2022/01/01/faroe-islands-isolated-boosted-group-infected-with-omicron/

And I could list them for you all day. Every time I look more and more solid evidence shows up. Not to mention my own personal experience. It does not matter how much BS you attempt to muddy the waters with. The evidence coming in is very clear.

25 posted on 01/05/2022 9:54:02 PM PST by fireman15
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To: BeauBo

https://dailyexpose.uk/2021/12/29/triple-vaccinated-10-times-more-likely-to-catch-omicron/


26 posted on 01/05/2022 9:58:32 PM PST by fireman15
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To: BeauBo

Here is the discussion that we had here on the last link I sent you.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4025293/posts


27 posted on 01/05/2022 9:59:59 PM PST by fireman15
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To: SeekAndFind
....and even higher between those who have received booster shots, demonstrating strong evidence of the variant’s immune evasiveness.

This portrays the quick spread as the fault of the virus and NOT the vaccines and begs the obvious question, "would it not be more logical to assume the vaccine has compromised the body's natural antibodies or ability to ward off viruses in those who have been vaccinated?"

A pretty blatant false assumption, IMO. IOW, disingenuous and misleading.

28 posted on 01/05/2022 10:13:29 PM PST by Gaffer
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To: fireman15

Bottom Line: You are falling for conspiracy theory peddlers.

You don’t cite the New England Journal of Medicine, the Lancet, John Hopkins, or authoritative official Government sources (of any Government) - it is all fringe websites by unknown authors, supposedly uncovering hidden information from them. The Expose, Substack, WordPress - self publishers (click here to contribute, and get the shocking truth out). The one exception was your Epoch Times citation, which said nothing that supported your contention of negative effectiveness. In fact the conclusion of that article was to promote the vaccines for prevention.

According to these whackos (or deliberate misleaders) all the Governments on Earth are United in a huge conspiracy to kill off their populations (despite being unable to agree on little else). That is why none will stop vaccinating, despite the supposed “evidence”. Apparently, only the genius behind the Expose can see that footnote 28 reverses all the conclusions of some academic studies and Government report, and that all of the formerly reputable and authoritative sources have been corrupted by a Dr.Evil-like “Big Pharma”. Oh, and also mass psychosis. And Fauci.

Brazil and Botswana, Peru and India, Japan and Belarus, the UK and Israel - no Nation accepts the conspiracy BS that those sites churn out. No established academic journals. No reputable research institutions or Universities.

This supposed negative effectiveness is just the latest in a long string of outlandish claims that these conspiracy theorists (you didn’t mention the Kennedy sites, like Children’s Health Network, but they are another) keep churning out, and then simply abandoning. Just flinging any kind of crazy theory, to see what sticks, and moving on to next.

Vaccines will cause Cytokine storms when recipients are exposed to the disease! Vaccines will re-write your DNA! Vaccines will re-write your immune system to attack you! Vaccines will re-write your immune system to attack nothing! Vaccines contain unusual parasites! Vaccines have secret ingredients, designed to kill! Vaccines have graphene nanobots communicating over 5G. Vaccines are designed to produce ADE! Vaccines make you more likely to contract the disease! All this and more have been posted on the Expose. None of it was true.


29 posted on 01/06/2022 3:30:48 AM PST by BeauBo
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To: SeekAndFind
FWIW, I'm beginning to think these so-called variants are being used to explain away why the vaxxes allow transmission by vaxxed, infected people...

Nasal vaccination against SARS-CoV-2: Synergistic or alternative to intramuscular vaccines?

It is striking that all marketed SARS-CoV-2 vaccines are developed for intramuscular administration designed to produce humoral and cell mediated immune responses, preventing viremia and the COVID-19 syndrome. They have a high degree of efficacy in humans (70–95%) depending on the type of vaccine. However, little protection is provided against viral replication and shedding in the upper airways due to the lack of a local sIgA immune response, indicating a risk of transmission of virus from vaccinated individuals.

I have one word for all the wokesters who say they got shot up for the public good and are demanding others do the same: Suckers.

30 posted on 01/06/2022 3:37:09 AM PST by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: BeauBo
Interesting that you are so desperate that you have to resort to straw man arguments that I have no association with at all.

No one on this forum has been a more dedicated and long time advocate for vaccines than I have. AS a long time senior Hazmat Team Leader there are very few people on this forum who have had as many vaccinations as I have. I spent years volunteering my own time driving old folks to get their flu and other lifesaving vaccines. My wife is a retired nurse and department head and places that she worked at sometimes lost dozens of people in a month during bad flu seasons. Somehow that wasn't newsworthy enough to get your attention back then, was it? You only stepped into action when the MSM propaganda machine started ramping up its efforts for political purposes.

The primary concern that I have brought up over and over and over again on this forum is that the most shameful result of this absolute and complete debacle is that people will no longer trust actual vaccines that save millions of lives every year. This is the negative result that I fear the most.

The vaccines that you advocate for were designed to stop a pathogen that essentially no longer exists. Omicron is a distant cousin at best. It likely is not even a direct descendant. It is a variant of the common cold that causes a false positive with PCR tests that have been prone to false positives from the beginning. Why would any reasonable person advocate for “vaccines” that have far more death and injury associated than all others combined in the last 30 years. Unlike you... I have had direct and intimate contact with those who have had both Covid, people have had severe illness and injury from the vaccines, and even those who have died from the vaccines and the devastating results of the lockdowns and other measures taken supposedly to “save us all”.

Your blind acceptance of any nonsense that the Biden administration, Democrat governors and a bunch of power-hungry bureaucrats throw our way is not only pathetic it is going to result in millions of more deaths in the future from fully preventable disease. I hope you will be proud of the results of your ill-considered advocacy for “vaccinations” that have completely lost their efficacy and are now causing only injury and death. Personally, my respect for drones such as yourself has completely disappeared. It is your own fault that you now live in a lala land that has no connection to reality. I blame you personally for the horrible consequences of out-of-control government actions; it is you and others like you that have enabled them.

But I do thank you for your comments. They serve as a reminder to all, that people who have seemed very reasonable in the past can be easily controlled by propaganda and fear.

31 posted on 01/06/2022 6:53:36 AM PST by fireman15
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To: fireman15

“ I blame you personally for the horrible consequences of out-of-control government actions”

Delusion.

I don’t support mandates, etc.. You are imagining, projecting, stereotyping - de-humanizing.

The last few months do not seem to have been kind to your mental health. A vacation, or something to lighten you up, might be helpful


32 posted on 01/06/2022 8:41:14 AM PST by BeauBo
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To: BeauBo
You are imagining, projecting, stereotyping - de-humanizing.

And so, the kettle calls the teapot black. No matter what you say... I certainly have never seen you here standing up for people's rights to refuse the “experimental vaccines”. And the fact that you have to resort to straw man arguments, to defend your position is telling.

33 posted on 01/06/2022 8:51:45 AM PST by fireman15
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To: BeauBo
And you do support actions like this... don't you?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10368857/Americas-elite-universities-defying-science-reason-writes-Johns-Hopkins-DR-MARTY-MAKARY.html

You are a huge hypocrite, and willing to sacrifice everyone’ rights because you are afraid for your own skin. Disgusting.

34 posted on 01/06/2022 9:05:41 AM PST by fireman15
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To: fireman15

“And you do support actions like this... don’t you?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10368857/Americas-elite-universities-defying-science-reason-writes-Johns-Hopkins-DR-MARTY-MAKARY.html

No.

“You are a huge hypocrite, and willing to sacrifice everyone’ rights”

No.

“you are afraid for your own skin.”

No.

You imagine this stuff, and project it on me, possibly to justify your opposition.

It is delusion.

I do not believe the crackpot conspiracy theories about the vaccine. That is all.


35 posted on 01/06/2022 10:10:24 AM PST by BeauBo
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To: BeauBo

Obviously, you are a very intelligent person and in reality, the two of us disagree in very few areas. I am a little surprised by some of the arguments that you have used because I kind of expect better from you.

I apologize for my exuberance which comes from a lot of first hand experiences. At times these experiences have caused me to lose my patience as I have with you. I do believe that it is better to keep things more civil that I just did.

If you were able to look back far enough into my posting history you would find that both my wife and I were frequent visitors and sometimes paid by the Kirkland Life Care Center, the first nursing facility in the country to have multiple deaths from the original form of the virus. We had many friends who were still working there when tragedy struck.

None of the news reports about the situation there were very accurate and many of them were highly misleading. So I have been very aware from the beginning that in this situation the MSM reporting all needs to be viewed with a healthy amount of skepticism. And then outside of the MSM, even some reports that I thought were total conspiracy BS have turned out to be completely accurate. So, what do we learn from that? I don’t know. Certainly, the censorship and pressure on doctors and even researchers to stick with the party line has been unprecedented. If that does not concern you then I think that you are suffering from extreme confirmation bias.


36 posted on 01/06/2022 12:23:37 PM PST by fireman15
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To: fireman15

“I apologize for my exuberance which comes from a lot of first hand experiences.”

That is very big-hearted of you, and rare among people. I appreciate it. Frankly, I have been fond of you since our initial discussions over the legalization of marijuana, and the effects that had. I think we have a lot of areas of agreement.

I know that the whole COVID situation is a big event in society, and those focused on politics, politicize everything. It replaces religion for many Leftists. Of course they have politicized it.

COVID policy has been rife with over-politicization - even red Guard-like ideological tests in workplaces, including among medical providers. I largely disagree with the overwrought, overcontrolling policies and mandates that have been enacted, but I don’t buy the horror stories about the vaccines. I honestly think that they are a significant benefit, and I have been following them (and the reports of research) fairly closely throughout the pandemic.

I got two Pfizers and a J&J, and nobody made do it. I encourage my own family to get them, but don’t badger (I propose they quit smoking a couple of times a year as well).


37 posted on 01/06/2022 2:27:50 PM PST by BeauBo
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