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Covid Wave number 7 is upon us in Australia
Sigma (BA.2.75.*) is in Australia and has been for over a month but is now starting to grow in prevalence compared to Pi (BA.5.*). Don’t forget to get that fifth jab in. Klaus Schwab recommends it. The nomenclature is a bit confusing. Greek letters should have been assigned to BA.2.* (Rho), BA.5.* (Pi) and now…
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NSW is in Omicron BA.4 & BA.5 wave
Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 variants have been slowly growing in prevalence since 1 May 2022 in NSW, now about 50%, and case numbers and hospitalization have been increasing. Maybe BA.4 and BA.5 are not as mild as they were suggested to be in South Africa. Deaths show a slight rise but more deaths usually follow…
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BA.4 and BA.5 variants target young children
This is big. Thx Clare Karacsonyi for sharing to me. It seems like the variants BA.4 and BA.5 which are only just starting in Australia (in NSW and WA last I looked) are affecting children more than any other variant. The number of children admitted to hospital under 9 years of age has overtaken the…
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Pre-infection or vaccination will not stop you getting covid from variants BA.4 and BA.5
New data from South Africa shows that although 97% of people had been exposed to covid or had been vaccinated or both, they still have a fifth wave in South Africa. BA.4 and BA.5 are now being sequenced in Australia (NSW and WA), Europe and the USA, so the world is about to go through…
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Good News at Last. The Covid pandemic could end after BA.4 and BA.5 waves
BA.4 and BA.5 are now known to be even weaker than BA.1 and BA.2, or maybe we have just killed all the vulnerable people already. This is data from South Africa. The only reason I could come up with as to why they let covid rip in Australia was that ‘they’ thought if most people…
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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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BA.4 and BA.5 dominate Covid cases in South Africa
BA.4 and BA.5 have almost completely dominated all the Omicron variants now (see below). Compared the rest of the world which is still going through a BA.2 variant wave (see below). Here is the United Kingdom: Here is the USA: The grey area in the bottom right corner is the rapidly growing BA.2.12.1 Here is…
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BA.4 and BA.5 are growing fast in South Africa. Detected in Australia now. Get ready for a new deadly winter wave.
Australia is heading to catastrophe with BA4 and BA.5 now in Australia and the removal of the one mandate that was strongly supported by science, namely masks. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/04/three-new-covid-omicron-subvariant-australia-ba-2-12-1-ba4-ba5-detected BA.4 and BA.5 are growing fast in South Africa with respect to BA.2. See graph. South Africa is almost certainly heading into fifth wave. See graph. BA.4…
Dr George Christos
covid19 & other Infectious diseases