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Rapid Antigen Tests are Useless
I was trying to make sense of this paper I reference below. My conclusion was that the RAT is 37% more accurate on average compared to a random 50/50 result for Omicron. That does not sound too great to me. A big drop from the delta variant. Why are we even using this crap? The…
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Omicron BA.2 is quite different from Omicron BA.1. BA.2 is now generating it’s own subvariants. There are now 54 variants of Omicron.
I have always regarded the BA.2 subvariant of Omicron and potentially more dangerous than BA.1 as it is quite different. Up until a week or so ago, BA.1 had generated 19 new subvariants BA.1.*, e.g. BA.1.1 and BA.1.14, and BA.1.17. Now BA.2 is developing new subvariants, like BA.2.1 and BA.2.3. They have appeared in South…
Dr George Christos
covid19 & other Infectious diseases