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Could Omicron be GOOD news? Variant 'might speed up end of pandemic if it causes mild illness' as South Africa records NO hospital admissions or deaths from super strain - but scientists won't know for at least two weeks
Daily Mail ^ | 29 November 2021 | Emily Craig

Posted on 12/02/2021 1:25:47 PM PST by nickcarraway

The new Covid variant Omicron could turn out to be a 'Christmas gift' if it causes milder illness, a German health expert claimed today after South African doctors said the strain appears to cause less severe symptoms.

Medics in South Africa said the strain is causing mild symptoms — such as a headache and tiredness — than previous versions of the virus and hasn't led to a single hospitalisation or death.

Professor Karl Lauterbach, a clinical epidemiologist who is in the running to be Germany's next health minister, said the early reports means Omicron could be a Christmas gift and may even speed up the end of the pandemic.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 19; covid; health; omicron; vaxhoax
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1 posted on 12/02/2021 1:25:47 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

short answer? YES!!!


2 posted on 12/02/2021 1:28:13 PM PST by mylife (Joe Biden is like bald tires in the rain, Alec Baldwin with a gun....)
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To: nickcarraway

“super strain”

turning out to be pure hype


3 posted on 12/02/2021 1:28:35 PM PST by RatRipper (The Biden Adm is leading an attack against US citizens . . . pure evil.)
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To: nickcarraway

Oh no! It has to stay on course for a major pandemic until the mid terms.


4 posted on 12/02/2021 1:28:49 PM PST by mosaicwolf
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To: mylife

God must have gotten tired of our stupidity and sent the Moronic variant to clear things up.


5 posted on 12/02/2021 1:29:11 PM PST by Little Ray (Civilization runs on a narrow margin. What sustains it is not magic, but hard work. )
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To: nickcarraway

How ironic..

1963 Movie “OMICRON”

An alien takes over the body of an Earthman in order to learn about the planet so his race can take it over.


6 posted on 12/02/2021 1:29:40 PM PST by tired&retired (Blessings )
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To: nickcarraway

There was a time when people were inoculated with cowpox to protect them from smallpox. Hence the term “milk-maid’s skin.” Women who tended cattle did not contract smallpox. Maybe Omicron will be the cowpox of covid-19.


7 posted on 12/02/2021 1:30:04 PM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Diana Moon Glampers for Secretary of Education! )
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To: nickcarraway

“but scientists won’t know for at least two weeks.” Where have I heard that before. “two weeks to flatten the curve”


8 posted on 12/02/2021 1:30:23 PM PST by EvilCapitalist (Pets are no substitute for children.)
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To: nickcarraway

But they will still push universal vote-by-mail for 2022.


9 posted on 12/02/2021 1:30:31 PM PST by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism.)
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To: nickcarraway

Scientists don’t know?

What use are they and is their Science bogus?


10 posted on 12/02/2021 1:30:44 PM PST by Paladin2 (Critical Marx Theory is The SOLUTION....)
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To: Little Ray

Like normal.


11 posted on 12/02/2021 1:30:52 PM PST by mylife (Joe Biden is like bald tires in the rain, Alec Baldwin with a gun....)
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To: mosaicwolf

Don’t worry. I’m sure there will be another strain just in time for the mid-terms.


12 posted on 12/02/2021 1:31:17 PM PST by EvilCapitalist (Pets are no substitute for children.)
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To: nickcarraway

I think the problem for “science” is that they don’t
really know what this stuff is going to evolve to.

Or maybe they DO and that’s why they are so terrified!


13 posted on 12/02/2021 1:33:34 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: nickcarraway

Pray this is true.

As bizarre as it sounds if this is true, this is a strain you would *want* to spread to drown out more harmful variants.


14 posted on 12/02/2021 1:33:51 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
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To: nickcarraway

I think the Spanish flu did the same thing, mutated away.


15 posted on 12/02/2021 1:35:00 PM PST by DEPcom (Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules)
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To: Paladin2

Scientific data isn’t immediately available the second something new comes out. Scientists should actually wait for data to develop, instead of trying to push an agenda.


16 posted on 12/02/2021 1:35:05 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

We could have ended it earlier if our Republican leadership not bowed in fear to Fauci and his plandemic. The lockdowns, masking and distancing have caused it to linger and given it more time to mutate.


17 posted on 12/02/2021 1:39:09 PM PST by momincombatboots (Ephesians 6... who you are really at war with. )
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To: nickcarraway

So the racist over reaction by Biden was both racist and over-reactive?


18 posted on 12/02/2021 1:39:26 PM PST by Delta 21 (Quarantine the sick. Protect the vulnerable. Hang the guilty. Free everyone else.)
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To: nickcarraway
I'm sure Fauci is running around like Rumpelstiltskin....you know the idiot who was certain he would win.
19 posted on 12/02/2021 1:40:31 PM PST by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: DEPcom

I thought everyone was exposed to it, and either died or was immune.


20 posted on 12/02/2021 1:41:51 PM PST by nickcarraway
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