07/12/2021
OMICRON COVID-19 STRAIN-
Symptoms are dry coughs, fever, night sweats, a lot of body pain, headaches, body aches, scratchy throat, oxygen drop severely, severe fatigue for one or two days, no death so far, symptoms are extremely mild. Most patients who were infected have recovered with hospitalizations. A threat very high. Effects all ages, reported 11 counties globally have been infected and 17 states, highly transmissible, evolution of Omicron in an animal host is being considered. Averaging 96,000 new cases a day and hitting hard in the upper Midwest to New England, New Hampshire led the country in new cases per capita last week. With other variants including delta. Omicron is a strain of covid-19 and that it's spreading faster than covid-19 did, some doctors are saying the vaccine will help protect you from Omicron but also some doctors are saying it won't. A lot of counties setting rule on traveling. UN agency says based on early evidence there was a possibility of new surges that could lead to ‘severe consequences. The World Health Organization says the global risk from the Omicron variant of the coronavirus is “very high” based on early evidence, and it could lead to surges with “severe consequences”. Preliminary evidence suggests an increased risk of reinfection with this variant, as compared to other" variants of concern, the organization said in a statement Friday. "(This) variant has been detected at faster rates than previous surges in infection, suggesting that this variant may have a growth advantage." Depending on how transmissible the variant is and whether it could escape immunity, "the likelihood of potential further spread of Omicron at the global level is high," the WHO brief said. Depending on these characteristics, there could be future surges of Covid-19, which could have severe consequences."
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• Some data suggest the Delta variant might cause more severe illness than previous strains in unvaccinated persons. In two different studies from Canada and Scotland, patients infected with the Delta variant were more likely to be hospitalized than patients infected with Alpha or the original virus strains. Early data suggests the variant is spreading in South Africa more rapidly than previous variants did and that the strain, known formally as B.1.1.529, could be starting to trigger a new wave of infections, according to analysis by the Financial Times. • The Delta variant is more contagious: The Delta variant is highly contagious, more than 2x as contagious as previous variants. These variants seem to spread more easily and quickly than the dominant strain, and they also may cause more severe illness, but more research is needed to make a determination. The representation produced by the Italian researchers showed that the newest coronavirus variant had 43 spike protein mutations, compared to 18 for the Delta variant. Previous research estimated that Omicron had 32 spike protein mutations, compared with the 13 to 17 seen in the more prevalent Delta variant. But yet the president Biden is saying don't panic isn't that the same thing Trump said to us. Keep your masks on and keep your hands clean as much as possible.
