Posted on 12/07/2021 1:17:57 AM PST by nickcarraway
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa and Senegalese President Macky Sall have expressed their displeasure towards rich countries over travel bans imposed on them since the country announced the discovery of a new coronavirus variant, omicron.
SNIP
Ramaphosa, tasked rich countries to rather help in finding a solution to the global crisis but not to punish poor nations.
"When South African scientists discovered, as President Macky Sall was saying, Omicron, the new variant, they immediately took on the responsibility of informing the world, -..., that a new variant has come through. And what is the result? The Northern countries impose a ban to punish the excellence that comes from Africa..."
(Excerpt) Read more at africanews.com ...
South Africa used to be a rich country.
South Africa should ask the District 9 aliens to come back.
How are they discovering it in people?
No hospital or clinic has a gene sequencing machine to test for variants
ALL THINGS Covid are a LIE...........ALL OF IT!!!
how interesting. ***T.H. Chan School of Public Health, whose Marc Lipsitch was an early fear-mongerer for covid:
6 Dec: Harvard Crimson: Harvard-Affiliated Lab Is First to Discover Omicron Variant
By Sophia C. Scott and Dekyi T. Tsotsong
The Omicron — a new strain of Covid-19 — was first discovered by researchers at the Botswana-Harvard AIDS Institute Partnership on Nov. 19.
The Botswana-Harvard AIDS Institute Partnership was founded in 1996, and aims to promote collaborative research between the Harvard ***T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Botswana’s Ministry of Health and Wellness, along with the training of health care professionals.
Sikhulile Moyo, the laboratory director for the lab in Gaborone, Botswana and the first scientist to discover the Omicron variant, said in a Dec. 3 press conference that the hypothesis around where the variant originated is “not very clear.”
“We are still trying to understand how so many mutations arose for Omicron in such a short period of time,” he said.
Roger L. Shapiro, a professor at the School of Public Health and chair of the board of directors of the Botswana-Harvard AIDS Institute Partnership, said during the press conference that the lab’s discovery of the Omicron variant was “not accidental.” He credited it to the lab’s partnership with the Botswana government and the country’s Covid-19 task force...
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2021/12/6/harvard-botswana-lab-omicron/
3 Dec: MMEGI Botswana: How a Harvard-affiliated lab in Botswana became the first to identify the Omicron variant
by Felice J. Freyer
As the rows of multi-coloured letters lit up his computer screen at the Botswana-Harvard AIDS Institute Partnership, Sikhulile Moyo looked on in surprise. The letters represented the genetic codes from thousands of coronavirus samples...
Established in 1996 as collaboration between the Harvard School of Public Health and the Botswana Ministry of Health, the Botswana Harvard Partnership aimed to build the country’s ability to research and treat AIDS in Africa. The partnership conducts research into HIV and associated illnesses and developed the guidelines on how to prevent HIV transmission from mother to child. The partnership has focused on training and mentorship.
***It is funded by the ***National Institutes of Health, while the government of Botswana built the building that houses it...
https://www.mmegi.bw/news/how-a-harvard-affiliated-lab-in-botswana-became-the-first-to-identify-the-omicron-variant/news
***note Lipsitch was involved in the following:
1 Nov 2021: LiveMint: Booster vaccine dose effective in reducing severe covid-19-related outcomes: Lancet study
by Neetu Chandra Sharma
The study, conducted in Israel, claims to provide the largest peer-reviewed evaluation of the effectiveness of a third “booster” dose of a covid-19 vaccine in a nationwide mass-vaccination setting. The Clalit Research Institute, in collaboration with researchers from Harvard University, analysed integrated health record databases to examine the effectiveness of the third dose of the Pfizer vaccine against the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2...
The research was conducted by Dr Noam Barda, Dr. Noa Dagan, Professor Cyrille Cohen, and Professor Ran Balicer from the Clalit Research Institute, as well as Professor Miguel Hernán and Professor ***Marc Lipsitch of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Professor Isaac S. Kohane of Harvard Medical School, and Professor Ben Reis of Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School.
https://www.livemint.com/science/health/booster-vaccine-dose-effective-in-reducing-severe-covid-19-related-outcomes-11635762205538.html
“...that a new variant has come through. And what is the result? The Northern countries impose a ban to punish the excellence that comes from Africa...”
LOL, I love dry humor...
“South Africa used to be a rich country.”
They have, actually, held on to much of their world-leading medical system...starting with the fact that they are honest, far more than our system can claim.
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