Posted on 11/27/2021 2:07:51 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
LONDON (AP) — The new potentially more contagious omicron variant of the coronavirus popped up in more European countries on Saturday, just days after being identified in South Africa, leaving governments around the world scrambling to stop the spread.
Many countries have slapped restrictions on various southern African countries over the past couple of days, including Australia, Brazil, Canada, the European Union, Iran, Japan, Thailand and the United States, in response to warnings over the transmissibility of the new variant. This goes against the advice of the World Health Organization, which has warned against any overreaction before the variant was thoroughly studied.
Despite the banning of flights, there are mounting concerns that the variant has already been widely seeded around the world.
Some experts said the variant’s emergence illustrated how rich countries’ hoarding of vaccines threatens to prolong the pandemic.
Fewer than 6% of people in Africa have been fully immunized against COVID-19, and millions of health workers and vulnerable populations have yet to receive a single dose. Those conditions can speed up spread of the virus, offering more opportunities for it to evolve into a dangerous variant.
“One of the key factors to emergence of variants may well be low vaccination rates in parts of the world, and the WHO warning that none of us is safe until all of us are safe and should be heeded,” said Peter Openshaw, a professor of experimental medicine at Imperial College London.
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Rich countries hoarding vaccines? Hey, no problem. You can export mine.
PANIC… PANIC… PANIC. More people are in danger of 24-48 hours of being tired and then having natural immunity to COVID-19.
“Delta” has already worn out its press and it is time for a new NEW variant to juice the fear meters. We will have more of these in serial until no one pays attention. Then it will be time for a new type of disease to be released on the world. Sooner or later they will have to work up to smallpox. It is time to investigate to find out if smallpox vaccinations are still available. If they are I will get all my kids and grandkids vaccinated, unless, of course, the available vaccine turns out to be an all new mRNA vax.
They sure isolated and developed a test for this variant quickly.
New Variant to be called:
“Really, Really Scary Cootie Variant”
That is OK. Biden said he will get rid of covid. I figure he has 3 days.
The Midterm Variant.
Omicron is the “mild cold” variant.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4016236/posts
“South Africa’s medical chief says she has only seen “very mild cases” caused by the new COVID mutation, calling it a “storm in a teacup.””
… The Midterm Variant…
Well played sir!
The Associated Press used to be so reliable when it reported actual news.
Now its status as a Democrat toady is so blatantly obvious it’s laughable.
Of all the news organizations that went Leftist for money, the AP is the very worst.
Wolf!
Wolf!
Yawn……
Good one.
So it’s our fault, the fault of wealthy modern countries such as America, that this new variant is coming up out of darkest Africa? Because we just didn’t do enough to immunize Africans?
If Trump were still president, I’m sure such an oversight would be considered racist.
More contagious, but even less "deadly" than the original "COVID" lie... But panic anyway, and by all means, get ready for another couple of shots, followed by another few boosters. Oh, and keep wearing that mask, morons.
ass hole ciated depressed is yelling fire in a crowded theater again
“Imperial College” where oh where have we seen this college’s work on predicting the virus’ outcome before? Oh, that’s it in the totally debunked milllllllllions will die model.
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