Meet the Covid variants
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Omicron was in Europe long before travel bans on southern Africa
https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/01/world/coronavirus-newsletter-intl-01-12-21/index.html
Tags: COVIDVARIANTS COVIDOMICRON COVIDEUROPE
https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/01/world/coronavirus-newsletter-intl-01-12-21/index.html
Tags: COVIDVARIANTS COVIDOMICRON COVIDEUROPE
It's more than just Variants of Covid or even Vaccines... it's about the behavior of those that are infected with a Variant of Concern.
The diagram below is of an actual spread case of a Variant of Concern here in Canada that started from one traveller not willing to follow quarantine rules. Covid infections, hospitalizations and Deaths occurred from just one infected traveller.
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Case study: How one case turned into many
One Albertan returned from travel with a case of a COVID-19 variant of concern. Instead of quarantining alone for 14 days following return from travel outside Canada...
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The diagram below is of an actual spread case of a Variant of Concern here in Canada that started from one traveller not willing to follow quarantine rules. Covid infections, hospitalizations and Deaths occurred from just one infected traveller.
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Case study: How one case turned into many
One Albertan returned from travel with a case of a COVID-19 variant of concern. Instead of quarantining alone for 14 days following return from travel outside Canada...
- The infected traveller socialized with a friend during quarantine.
wrbtrader
Now think about it for a minute gbw, why would a variant get noticed in Europe before the Less United States Produced Product Jabbed Africans? Is the United States Produced Product as effective as the African Product of Choice? 2) Are the Africans as jabbed as the Europeans?
Hell, it's just a global pandemic, who wants The Scientific Answer to That? Screw it let's just wing it and Make Some Money too! lol. Follow the Frogs.
Why would variant emerge in high jabbed before low jabbed?
Science Please, riddle me this...
Travel bans typically are not used to stop the virus spread.
Instead, travel bans are used to "slow the spread" so that government public health agencies can have time to alert the public and put up a proper defense to slow the virus spread while ensuring more people are vaccinated and giving people better access to antiviral therapeutic drug treatments to minimize deaths.
For example, the United States currently has no known cases of Omicron. Yet, we're only now testing travelers arriving at several key airports and then we've only recently begun doing genomic testing of 1 out of 7 known positive Covid infection cases of known Variants of Concern.
- That's a huge jump in genomic testing considering it use to be 1 out of 100 known positive Covid infection cases of known Variants of Concern.
Also, it's now the start of the holiday season here in North America. People tend to not get tested when they only have mild symptoms. Thus, if Omicron is here...it will be very difficult to detect until after the holiday season.
In fact, I wouldn't be surprise if our public health agencies put more emphasis on our citizens / travelers to get tested even if they only have mild symptoms of illness.
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First... South Africa, being one of the wealthier countries in Africa, has a pretty good Covid surveillance program. The Omicron variant has most likely been circulating in other countries in the southern African region undetected for weeks before being discovered as a new variant in South Africa.
Second -- the samples taken in South Africa over several weeks show the virus appeared there first before being seen elsewhere worldwide. So Omicron -- like nearly every other variant of concern -- appeared in an area of the world with low vaccination rates, not high vaccination rates. This underlines the importance of getting third world nations vaccinated.
Third, the CNN article merely states that Omicron has probably been circulating in Europe for days before travel was banned from South Africa. Effectively it is like shutting the barn door after the fox is already among the chickens -- the only benefit is reducing any additional foxes from getting in to inflict a higher level of damage.
I stand corrected...CDC has now discovered Omicron in the United States. It was detected in a traveler from South Africa that's fully vaccinated...the person arrived on November 22nd and became ill on November 27th and then tested positive on November 29th.
Person only has mild symptoms and is self-quarantining.
Now they must ensure they're able to contact trace all individuals from n = 1 person here in the United States assuming this person (a breakthrough infection) was not infected by someone else that is the true n = 1 person.
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Stupid question: Have any omicron vics been un-jabbed?
Don't know when it comes to the travelers... need to wait for the data.
In South Africa -- yes, according to the press many Omicron cases are unvaccinated. But this is not surprising since the fully vaccinated rate in the country is under 25%.