New variants on the rise

[redsturgeon]

https://theconversation.com/omicron-bq- ... nts-192873

Main points.

- Rapidly growing in the US and will probably be most dominant globally by 2023

- More transmissible probably due to immune escape and antibody evasion

- No evidence they produce more severe disease than BA4 or BA5

John

[monabri]

A year or so ago, a new variant would be headline news in the main stream media.

[pje16]

About three weeks ago there were just over 30,000 cases in my local borough (that was about 1,000 shy of the all-time high)
Today it was approx 13,000
Cases had shot up around the country, and it didn't make the news.
As long as deaths aren't high, and the NHS isn't creaking at the seam it seems like it doesn't matter at all.

[redsturgeon]

About three weeks ago there were just over 30,000 cases in my local borough (that was about 1,000 shy of the all-time high)
Today it was approx 13,000
Cases had shot up around the country, and it didn't make the news.
As long as deaths aren't high, and the NHS isn't creaking at the seam it seems like it doesn't matter at all.

The NHS is creaking at the seams.

John

[pje16]

The NHS is creaking at the seams.
John

Oh yes it's all over the BBC
I'm not denying it, just not seeing that anyone is concerned

[redsturgeon]

The NHS is creaking at the seams.
John

Oh yes it's all over the BBC
I'm not denying it, just not seeing that anyone is concerned

We have close contacts with our local NHS hospital so we keep up to date without having to rely on the filtering by the MSM.

John