Dr George Christos

covid19 & other Infectious diseases

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Tag: BA.5.1

  • What is the difference between Taiwan, Portugal and Australia

    What is the difference between Taiwan, Portugal and Australia

    Taiwan is fighting with the deadlier variant BA.2.2 that swept Hong Kong and got into China. Hence more deaths. Portugal is dealing with the more virulent BA.5.1, which is only just starting to grow in Europe and Australia. Holding it’s own against BA.5. Australia is play pretend there is no covid. #letitrip Below, you can…

  • Covid ICU surge in Israel

    Covid ICU surge in Israel

    Israel is reporting a surge in critically ill patients to covid19. There was a 70% jump in the number of critically ill from last week. I can only put this surge down to growing prevalence to the new variants BA.4 BA.5 and BA.5.1. This is strange because in South Africa BA.4 and BA.5 seemed to…