Posted on 12/04/2021 10:49:50 AM PST by elpadre
SEOUL – Fears of the Omicron variant are tearing across the world, hammering markets, upending forecasts and compelling countries to halt incoming travel – but there may be an upside.
Amid shock reports about Omicron’s extreme transmissibility, one expert says that the geographic origin of the latest Covid-19 mutation points to a less severe form of the disease.
And a combination of high transmissibility and low morbidity, if proven, could provide a pandemic-weary humanity with the silver bullet it has been waiting for.
“This could be the vehicle by which Covid becomes a less lethal disease,” Ogan Gurel, a doctor and neurosurgeon who has been monitoring the pandemic from South Korea and Canada said. “Time will tell.” Mutating to lesser severity?
An overlooked factor in analyses of Omicron so far is the geographical origin of the variant, Gurel, chief science officer of Flite Material Sciences Corp in Montreal, told Asia Times.
“If we take the premise that this highly transmissible variant arose in an immune-compromised population, by definition, it is not that severe,” Gurel, who has taught courses on medicine in Asia, Europe and North America, said.
The variant, identified last week, appears to have originated in Southern Africa, a hotspot of the immune compromised. Citing 2019 data, Gurel noted that HIV/AIDS is present among 17.3% of adults in South Africa; in Botswana the figure is 22.20%; and in Lesotho, it is 23.10%.
If the disease is not killing off hosts whose immune systems are already weakened, it strongly suggests lower morbidity than other strains.
(Excerpt) Read more at asiatimes.com ...
and more:
“...Covid-19 is not a particularly deadly disease. Among 262 million infections, 5.21 million have died, a mortality rate of 1.9%. Moreover, a considerable population of those infected are asymptomatic. And much of Africa lacks the health infrastructure to effectively test for the disease...”
Things like Omicron ought to be the best way to get real herd immunity and end this whole fiasco.
But the vaccine is now rampaging through society and I think we may be achieving the opposite of herd immunity. It seems that we may have succeeded — after two years — in making 90% of the population especially vulnerable to the virus, with compromised immune systems.
Time to stop this foodlessness and move on, like the virus does. Go, live your life...
Covid will never end.
“Eric Feigl-Ding, a senior fellow at the Federation of American Scientists tweeted on Friday that Omicron could be “500% more competitively infectious” calling the data “staggering.”
Data was posted earlier today showing Delta much more infectious than Omicron.
In addition, those too susceptible to the pathogen die off, so for both reasons mortality and morbidity tend to taper off asymptotically over time.
Omicron: like catching a cold.
High transmissibility.
Gone in a few days.
Everybody gets it.
Antibodies protect against all strains.
Herd Immunity at last.
Life returns to normal.
Biden Administration crying in their soup.
Could happen.
Fingers crossed.
Covid may be over (maybe), but the emergency measures are not. The precedent has been set.
It’s not ending the crisis. Fascist governments are using it as an excuse to take away additional rights.
More contagious but less sever, just as Dr. Coetzee said.
Not sure who Dr Coetzee is, but....Dr Lee Merritt (former Navy surgeon) explained exactly this, a year ago.
Dr. Coetzee is the South African doctor who “discovered” Omicron.
Omicron seems to be like a cold — not severe, but contagious.
Q: Why are we taking any Deep State’s word for it that there is in fact an Omniwhateveritis variant...?
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