Strange since Omicron has proven far less deadly than the other variants in the West.
Even mild Omicron can kill if you have diabetes, are fat, have bad heart or lungs or getting chemo, or smoke
You’re correct.
However….those who’ve taken the jab are most susceptible - to this and other corona viruses.
South Korea is 92% jabbed.
What should be a nothingburger, to those with natural, God given immunity, is now threatening, to those with compromised (the more jabs, the more compromised) immune systems.
We were warned about this, early on in this ScamDEMic, by real and honest docs and scientists.
Omni2 (BA.2) seems to have more immunity suppression devices and is more easily transmitted than Omni1. I’ll try to find the preprints being mentioned but for now, here’s the search results at biorxiv:
https://www.biorxiv.org/search/BA.2
Japan/India says it’s more deadly; WHO says it’s ‘not mild’ and “Covid subvariant ‘Omicron BA.2’ as deadly as Delta” is an emerging headline, as described in MINT.com article:
“new lab studies have revealed that Omicron subvariant BA.2 could cause severe illness like Delta... the Japanese team has identified are - BA.2 may have features that make it capable of causing serious illness, it shows immune escape properties just like sub-variant BA.1. Further stealth Omicron is resistant to treatments like sotrovimab, the monoclonal antibody...The researchers said although BA.2 is considered as an Omicron variant, its genomic sequence is heavily different from BA.1. “And, this suggests that the virological characteristics of BA.2 are different from that of BA.1,” they added....He also pointed out that being infected with BA.1 creates immunity against the subvariant, but not BA.2. “
https://www.livemint.com/science/health/worrisome-omicron-ba-2-can-be-as-severe-as-delta-shows-covid-lab-experiments-in-japan-read-here-11645272987477.html
https://www.medindia.net/news/more-deadly-than-omicron-stealth-omicron-205931-1.htm
unlike BA1, which is more upper respiratory I think?, BA.2 goes for the lungs like Delta did:
“BA.2 Omicron Subvariant Can Damage Your Lungs...”
https://www.thehealthsite.com/news/ba-2-omicron-subvariant-can-damage-your-lungs-cause-more-severe-disease-than-you-can-expect-study-864787/
(Dutch study - rate of spread)
“the secondary attack rate, which measures the probability of transmission of the virus to household members, was 39% for BA.2 and 29% for BA.1.”
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/omicron-subvariants-ba-1-vs-ba-2-what-the-latest-data-says#BA.2-seems-to-be-more-transmissible
(What are our defenses?)
“Sotrovimab was one of the few monoclonal antibodies that retained neutralizing activity against this variant...Recent studies have shown a significant decline in the neutralizing activity of sotrovimab against the BA.2 variant. The AstraZeneca antibody combination Evusheld and the Eli Lily antibody bebtelovimab are two authorized antibodies that still retain activity against both BA.1 and BA.2 variants.
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/omicron-subvariants-ba-1-vs-ba-2-what-the-latest-data-says#BA.2-can-evade-immunity-but-not-completely
there’s also a BA.3 in the pipeline, but I haven’t found any info on that variant:
“Moreover, since it emerged, scientists have categorized Omicron’s subvariants or lineages into three groups: BA.1, BA.2, and BA.3....”
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/omicron-subvariants-ba-1-vs-ba-2-what-the-latest-data-says