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China is only just clinging onto zerocovid
There is growing concern that there may be an explosive outbreak of covid19 in China. This follows a new outbreak in Beijing from a single bar. A spokesperson for the city’s government said a recent outbreak “The recent outbreak … is strongly explosive in nature and widespread in scope“ Meanwhile Shanghai went into a snap…
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Number of enumerated Omicron subvariants now 119
That is where people have got to in updating the number of Omicron variants anyhow. There are more likely 300 to 400 of them, but the number of variants are going too fast to keep track of of all of them. Variants like B.2.23 and BA.2.33 had been seen in Australia and the USA but…
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Director General of WHO wants China to lift lockdowns, but at what cost? 100,000 deaths a day?
The WHO wants China to end lockdowns because global companies are being affected. hmm. Do not trust the WHO to manage a Pandemic Response Treaty. They mucked this one up.
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BA.2.12.1 is most infectious. BA.2.2 is most deadly. BA.2.23 looks ominous.
I know this from what is going on in the USA and Hong Kong respectively. BA.2.12.1 is overtaking all other variants atm in the USA. BA.2.2 has a higher CFR than other BA.2.* variants. Here is the genetic structure of their Spike protein some other BA.2 relatives. Once again I point out that BA.2 is…
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Move over for BA.12. Ten-times more infectious than BA.2
A new variant of the novel coronavirus, BA.12, was found in Bihar’s Patna on Thursday. According to the state’s health department, the new variant of Omicron was found in the Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences (IGIMS). There is a new kid in town and we have not dealt with waves from BA.2.9, BA.2.2, BA.2.12, BA.2.12.1,…
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The subvariants of Omicron have exploded. Australia is getting buried in new subvariants from within and from the outside. Welcome to the “New World Disorder”.
Last I looked (a couple of day ago) we had 54 subvariants of Omicron listed by GISAID. BA.1 was the one that swept the world first. BA.2 looked more ominous as its spike protein was quite different to BA.1 and BA.3, and it subvariants are the ones I have been most concerned about. Look at…
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Was Denmark too hasty to declare that the coronavirus was just a flu and life was now normal again?
When Denmark’s Case Fatality Rate (CFR) dropped to 0.04% (7-day-runng average) in January 2022, the government of Denmark declared the pandemic was over. With a CFR so low, noting that the CFR for influenza is about 0.1 to 0.15%, that made reasonable sense. In early February most restrictions were subsequently lifted. It was said that…
Dr George Christos
covid19 & other Infectious diseases