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The #NuVariant FACTS:
š¢South Africa health chiefs say it is causing āmild illnessā.
š“UK health chiefs say they donāt know how dangerous it is
š¢South African health chiefs are relaxed about vaccine escape
š“UK health chiefs say we donāt know if it gets around vaccine
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š¢South Africa health chiefs say it is causing āmild illnessā.
š“UK health chiefs say they donāt know how dangerous it is
š¢South African health chiefs are relaxed about vaccine escape
š“UK health chiefs say we donāt know if it gets around vaccine
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š¢South Africa health chiefs say shutting borders is pointless
š“UK health chiefs shut borders
š¢South Africa health chiefs say world reaction is āover the topā
š“UK health chiefs say itās a precaution
Is everyone seeing what is happening here? UK is not following science.
š“UK health chiefs shut borders
š¢South Africa health chiefs say world reaction is āover the topā
š“UK health chiefs say itās a precaution
Is everyone seeing what is happening here? UK is not following science.
The vaccinated are already getting #COVID19 - so the #covidvariant isnāt any different in that scenario. And #PCR tests will increase cost of family foreign trips by hundreds of pounds. #Boris must reverse this travel nonsense nowā¦
Thereās a new SARS-CoV-2 variant of concern: Omicron (aka B.1.1.529) #OmicronVariant
What is this Omicron COVID variant & is the panic of it justified? (spoiler alert: no)
A short #OmicronExplainer š§µ about what we actually know, what we suspect, & whatās still unknown.
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What is this Omicron COVID variant & is the panic of it justified? (spoiler alert: no)
A short #OmicronExplainer š§µ about what we actually know, what we suspect, & whatās still unknown.
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4 reasons Omicron is worrisome:
1ļøā£ it is spreading rapidly in South Africa (known)
2ļøā£ it is highly mutated (known)
3ļøā£some mutations likely increase transmissibility (suspected)
4ļøā£others *may* allow it to evade existing immunity or vaccines (unknown)
Weāll talk about all 4...
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1ļøā£ it is spreading rapidly in South Africa (known)
2ļøā£ it is highly mutated (known)
3ļøā£some mutations likely increase transmissibility (suspected)
4ļøā£others *may* allow it to evade existing immunity or vaccines (unknown)
Weāll talk about all 4...
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First some nomenclature:
B.1.1.529 (its Pango lineage) is the same as āOmicron" (WHO declared it a variant of concern & assigned a Greek letter) #OmicronVariant
Itās also known as K21 (Nextstrain clade)
Itās erroneously been called the #NuVariant ... yeah thatās not a thing
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B.1.1.529 (its Pango lineage) is the same as āOmicron" (WHO declared it a variant of concern & assigned a Greek letter) #OmicronVariant
Itās also known as K21 (Nextstrain clade)
Itās erroneously been called the #NuVariant ... yeah thatās not a thing
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The #NuVariant was foreseen and preventable. Following the most far-sighted scientists, the WSWS warned that a more dangerous #covidvariant would evolve unless the virus is eliminated globally. We united many of these scientists on October 24. 1/
wsws.org/en/special/pagā¦
wsws.org/en/special/pagā¦
These warnings were ignored by governments and the corporate media, who have continuously lied to the public and downplayed the dangers. Their lies and cover-up will be exposed by the Global Workersā Inquest into the COVID-19 Pandemic #CovidInquest 2/ wsws.org/en/articles/20ā¦
The ānew pandemicā (HT @yaneerbaryam) must be stopped now! As the 3rd year of the #Covid_19 pandemic approaches, the working class and scientists must draw the lessons of the past two years. All policies must be guided by science and the prioritization of lives over profits! 3/
We are in a state of emergency. Our hospitals are days away from #codezwart, the government is psychotically insisting schools stay open, insisting on mass infection and 20+ months of misinformed and gaslighted public who has had enough. Now we have the #nuvariant #B11529.
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.#B11529 #nuvariant is a Black Swan that is 7x more transmissible than the Delta variant, with preliminary estimates of an R0 of 16-20 and is likely to have immune escape, both from vaccines and infection. It is a monster.
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Whatever āherd immunityā āboth in terms of vaccination and infection āweāve built up against #deltavariant is useless against #B11529 #NuVariant.
South African demonstrates this clearly ā low vaccination grade, mass infection = #b11529 is capable of immune escape.
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South African demonstrates this clearly ā low vaccination grade, mass infection = #b11529 is capable of immune escape.
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šBREAKINGā Israel š®š± reports its first confirmed case of new #B11529 coronavirus variant in a traveler who flew āļø from Malawi ā”ļø this is now the 3rd case outside of Africa (after 2 cases found in Hong Kong šš° - see thread š). #NuVariant
newsnodes.com/nu_tracker
newsnodes.com/nu_tracker
2) in HK, #B11529 2/: fortunately caught by šš°ās quarantine system for international arrivals. But thatās where the good news endsā #B11259 was barely caught by a 4th PCR test in cross infection across a hotel hallway. Worseāboth were Pfizer vaccinated.š
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3) Here is Israel š®š± Ministryās statement ā two other cases under suspicion of #B11529 ā worrisome ā all individuals were vaccinated too.
ā ļøMy godāthe new #B11259 variant being possibly ~500% more competitively infectious is the most staggering stat yet. Also, #NuVariant has more than >2x the number of bad spike mutations than Delta. Hereās an updated š§µš
Model by @JPWeiland matches up with graph by @jburnmurdoch
Model by @JPWeiland matches up with graph by @jburnmurdoch
2) That spike in #B11259 displacing Delta has now caused shockwaves worldwide. It is really bad. Not only that but the previous #C12 variant also seems to be slowly growing and displacing Delta too in South Africa.
3) the new #B11259 variant has an āextremely highā 32 worrisome mutations in the spike. That is a āreal concernā and much much much more worrisome than any others found to date. š
B.1.1.529 seems to have gone from 0.1% to 50% in just a couple of weeks, when it took Delta several months to achieve that..!!
Brace up folks..!!
#NuVariant
Brace up folks..!!
#NuVariant
Things are getting worrisome folks..!! Read and understand this thread..!!
ā ļøBREAKINGāHOTEL CROSS TRANSMISSION OF #B11529āTraveler from South Africašæš¦ flew to Hong Kongšš° with new variantābut wasnāt discovered until 4th day of quarantine on 2nd PCR. Another guest across hallway cross-infectedāonly positive on 8th day on 4th PCR! Both Pfizer vaccinatedš§µ
2) the viral load of these two with #B11529 in Hong Kong hotels were VERY high. PCR Ct values of 18 and 19!!! Thatās insanely high considering they were negative on recent PCR tests. Damn, looks like vaccine evasion could be real with this variant.
3) and hell yes itās very airborne. The hotel guests were in different room across the hallway from each other. Environmental samples found the virus in 25 of 87 swab across both rooms.
BREAKING. UK š¬š§ imposes Africa travel restrictions over #B11529 variant fears. This variant is the most alarming variant found since #DeltaVariant discovery. Scientists worldwide are worried. B11529 (S-gene dropout) signals spiking across South Africa. š§µ bbc.co.uk/news/uk-594242ā¦
2) In KZN regionā¦ #B11529 is now becoming dominant over the region including displacing #Delta. See thread š§µ below š
3) this #B11529 variant has 32 spike mutations ā over 2x more than #DeltaVariant had in its spike. Many scientists say B11529 has an āawful spike profileā based on its mutations and locations.
ā ļøāDOMINANTāā¦ a new variant is worrying epidemiologistsācalled #B11529āit has just ābecoming dominantā in South Africa, displacing even #DeltaVariant (HT @MoshabelaMosa). And our other variant #C12 also growing. B11529 has an āawful spike profileā says @PeacockFlu. š§µ #COVID19
2) I talked about worried many fellow scientists are about #B11529ā many expressed āreal concernā, and that they ā”ļø havenāt seen as worrisome of a variant since #deltavariant ā¬ļø its got a lot of bad mutations in the spike. Way more than Delta.
3) this #B11529 variant is now in Hong Kongā caught while in quarantine.
