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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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Omicron now has 73 subvariants
Omicron B.1.1.529, now has 73 subvariants. These variants are being generated in the huge “virus pools” of vaccinated people as I have repeatedly noted since July 2021. The Delta variant generated 245 sublineages. The problem is that vaccines do not stop infection and transmission of the coronavirus. Currently vaccines have an efficacy of about 30-40%…
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Covid19 restrictions State by State.
This is a table* of the current restrictions in each state and territory in Australia as at 15 April 2022. As 97% of all super spreading occurs indoors and 96% of them are spread via aerosols indoors then masks should be mandatory everywhere indoors. No state has that right at all. Indoors should include all…
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BA.2 is not Omicron. And what are BA.4 and BA.5?
BA.2 is very different to BA.1 and BA.3. Why is it called Omicron? Because it came from South Africa around the same time. I thought the whole purpose of using Greek letters was so we could not tell where the variant came from. Delta always reminds me of the Ganges delta plains and hence of…
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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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How many people around you are carrying covid19 right now in WA?
There will always be a large virus pool from which new variants will form, so even if people develop immunity to one variant they will not be immune to new variants. This virus can become weaker one year but more deadly the year after.
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Efficacy of vaccine to Omicron is -270%, yes, negative.
This is from my post on 26 January 2022 on FB. I felt I needed to get this across again as it means you are much more likely to get covid19 if you are vaccinated. Most of this has to do with vaccine complacency but as I have argued to leads to large active virus…
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It is time to end all vaccine mandates and vaccine passports NOW
NZ ends vaccine mandates and passports on 4 April 2022, and even though WA has a record number of cases per day, WA also needs to end vaccine mandates and passports too. Vaccines offer little protection now and the there are adverse reactions to vaccines. A booster will increase the efficacy of a vaccine in…
Dr George Christos
covid19 & other Infectious diseases