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Louise Restaurant and Bar, night of 26th November
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2021/12/07/europes-biggest-omicron-outbreak-appears-mild-say-norway-covid/
Oslo, Norway, Christmas party
Scatec solar power company
One or two returned traveller
Had returned days earlier
120 people (all double vaccinated)
Mingled with outside groups later
70 of the 120 plus 50 others tested positive
Half tested positive for omicron
13 proven in sequencing
Dr. Tine Ravlo, Oslo, infectious diseases
They have symptoms like fever, cough, headache, muscle pain, fatigue,
but for now none of them have become severely ill and none of them have been treated in hospital
The next day, one of two employees,
recently returned from South Africa tested positive
Norway’s state epidemiologist, Frode Forland
Sheer number of people infected at a single event, omicron considerably more infectious than delta
Prof Forland, Norwegian Institute of Public Health
One of three scenarios for omicron,
it would be both very mild and very transmissible
That is the hope
That is the best scenario we can have
That it’s getting minder,
most people will get it,
and they will get a natural immunity
It might be that it has now replicated and mutated so many times,
that this is the optimal position from the virus’ point of view,
to spread widely and not kill the hosts
That’s what we’ve seen with other diseases beforehand.
And of course, then it gets into more like an endemic phase
Now this is not the end
Nor is it the end of the beginning
Rather it is the beginning of the end
Sally
I’ve had Delta, this time last year (pretty rough, took 6 months to fully recover) and I have Omicron now. The symptoms of Omicron are as you state. I am vaccinated.
Helgard
Living in SA (Gauteng) and have tested (+) 2 days ago, The symptoms is 100% correct as stated. Also after 1st symptoms, 3 days after i don’t even know that i was sick.
Body and muscle aches and pains
Headache
Tiredness (1 to 2 days)
Slight sore throat
No severe cough
No runny nose
Graph refs
https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus
SA. Live data, hospital patients who have tested positive
https://www.nicd.ac.za/diseases-a-z-index/disease-index-covid-19/surveillance-reports/daily-hospital-surveillance-datcov-report/
South Africa references
https://www.nicd.ac.za/diseases-a-z-index/disease-index-covid-19/sars-cov-2-genomic-surveillance-update/
Weekly deaths in SA
https://www.samrc.ac.za/reports/report-weekly-deaths-south-africa
Variants in SA
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/south-africa/
Sir Patrick Vallance
from pandemic to endemic where this becomes a more regular infection like flu over time
This virus has mutated a lot, quickly and that is sort of what you would expect at this stage
the good news is that, so far, it looks as though when you get very high antibody levels with the booster vaccine it’s definitely having some effect against it in the laboratory studies
Boris Johnson
Work-from-home from Monday
Facemasks will be enforced in public venues
Covid passes mandatory for nightclubs
Daily testing instead of isolation for omicron contacts
First plant-based coronavirus vaccine
CoVLP (20 years of R and D)
https://www.gsk.com/en-gb/media/press-releases/medicago-and-gsk-announce-positive-phase-3-efficacy-and-safety-results/
GlaxoSmithKline and Medicago
Primary endpoints and secondary endpoints met in trial dominated by COVID-19 variants
Efficacy demonstrated against all variants seen in the study,
including 75.3% efficacy against COVID-19 of any severity caused by Delta variant
Vaccine candidate was well-tolerated, with no related serious adverse events reported in the vaccine group
24,000 adults across six countries
Phase 3 placebo-controlled efficacy study
Canada Medicago’s plant based vaccine
British GSK’s pandemic adjuvant
Brian Ward, medical officer at Medicago
plants that are used simply act as bioreactors to produce the antigen
Health Canada
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
UK, Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
World Health Organization
WHO
Produced cheaply in very high amounts
Carrier plants such as potatoes and corn
Antigens created are fridge stable and can be stored for long periods of time
the likelihood that contamination by a plant virus would have an adverse effect on humans is almost negligible
Virus-Like Particles for protein vaccines
Creating empty shells, no RNA
Sally
Can you explain how one variant replaces the other? Does the other variant just fade out?
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