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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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#breakingnews Patient in USA has MonkeyPox, no travel history.
A person in Boston at Massachusetts Hospital has been confirmed to have monkeypox. The mystery is that the patient has no history of travel. The patient has been in Canada but there are no cases in Canada. It is believed to be the West African variety. https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?ref=watch_permalink&v=547190070264304 They are doing contact tracing to try to…
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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…
Dr George Christos
covid19 & other Infectious diseases