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Health officials said to warn country will soon break own record for serious cases
While seriously ill patients currently number 871, health officials tell COVID czar number will climb past peak of 1,200 seen in previous wave; hospitals said running out of beds
Health officials reportedly believe that Israel will soon break its previous record for serious COVID-19 cases, which experts fear could overwhelm the hospital system.
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www.timesofisrael.com...
originally posted by: rickymouse
I'm not worrying about getting covid again. I have enough chicken to make twelve big pots of Medicinal chicken soup and we have plenty of parsley and sage on hand and seven grapefruits and multiple supplements that can stop the virus from gong covid 19.
originally posted by: alexandrae
I think the 2nd supposed Omnicon is fake and invented and ment to keep the money rolling in for whoever is making money on the pandemic.
originally posted by: MapMistress
A second wave of Omicron is headed around the world. While most countries are in their peaks for the 1st Omicron, titled Omicron BA.1, the second strain of Omicron is gaining ground (Omicron BA.2).
The Omicron sublineage BA.2 is making headlines for its potentially increased transmissibility as its prevalence rises in some countries, but experts aren't too concerned about the variant just yet.
Late last week, the U.K. Health Security Agency designated BA.2 a "variant under investigation" as cases were doubling every 4 days and showing a 120% growth advantage over the original Omicron clade, known as BA.1, said Katelyn Jetelina, PhD, MPH, an epidemiologist at UT Health Science Center at Houston.
Omicron BA.2 May Be Extra Transmissable
In the UK and Denmark, Omicron BA.2 has already gained ground over the 1st Omicron strain BA.1.
So far, three subvariants of Omicron have been described: BA.1, BA.2 and BA.3. Worldwide, BA.1 account for most of Omicron-cases. However, in Denmark BA.2 is gaining ground.
The subvariant BA.2 accounted for 20% of all covid-19-cases in Denmark in week 52 (last year)increasing to approximately 45% in week 2 (of this year 2022). During the same period, the relative frequency of BA.1 has dropped.
Other countries also experience an increase in BA.2 cases: E.g. Great Britain, Norway and Sweden – but seemingly their increase in numbers are so far not on the same level as in Denmark.
Different mutations
BA.1 and BA.2 have many differences in their mutations in the most important areas. In fact, the difference between BA.1 and BA.2 is greater than the difference between the original variant and the Alpha variant.
Such differences can lead to different properties for instance concerning infectiousness, vaccine efficiency or severity. So far, there is no information as to whether BA.1 and BA.2 have different properties, but Statens Serum Institut (SSI) is continually working to investigate this matter.
Now, an Omicron variant, BA.2, accounts for almost half of all Danish Omicron-cases
Omicron BA.2 has 30 more mutations that are different than the mutations to BA.1. This means that vaccines will be even less effective on BA.2 than BA.1. And with that many mutations, even the unvaccinated with natural immunity will probably have to build up additional immunity to these 30 more mutations.
A Moroccan researcher says that BA.2 belongs to the same lineage as the omicron variant but has 30 more mutations than the original version. Several of these mutations are on the spike protein, the part of the virus that acts as a key to get into human cells and is the target for some antibodies.
UK labels new omicron subvariant BA.2 a 'variant under investigation'
ROUGH DRAFT LIST OF MUTATIONS FOUND SOLELY IN BA.2 (not shared with BA.1)
Spike Protein
1. T19I
2. LPPA24S
3. V213G
4. S371F (also BA.3)
5. T376A
6. D405N (also BA.3]
7. R408S
ORF1ab
8. S135R (also BA.3)
9. T842I
10. G1307S (also BA.3)
11. L3027F
12. T3090I (also BA.3)
13. L3201F
14. F3677L (also BA.3)
15. R5716C
16. T6564I
ORF3A
17. T223I
ORF6
18. D61L
NUCLEUS
19. C4321T
20. A9424G
21. C10198T
22. G10447A (also BA.3)
23. C12880T (also BA.3)
24. C15714T (also BA.3)
25. A20055G
26. C26858T (also BA.3)
N
27. S413R (also BA.3)
So that's the rough draft list of mutations found in BA.2 that are not found in BA.1 Omicron. I think there's more. This is just a rough draft.
That means a whole new set of mutations that everyone has to build immunity to.
Have you prepared to ride the 2nd Omicron Wave?
Shut us down now!: www.newsweek.com...
The Omicron subvariant known as BA.2, or unofficially as "stealth Omicron," has now been found in the vast majority of U.S. states, data shows.
The subvariant has made headlines this year after being behind an increasingly high proportion of cases in countries such as Denmark—where most new COVID cases are now BA.2—and the U.K.
The variant has also been found to a lesser extent in the U.S., where according to the variant tracking tool Outbreak.info as of Monday, it had been reported in 47 states. Outbreak.info uses data submitted to the virus genome database GISAID.
originally posted by: whiteblack
Omicron ba.2 isn't deadly like Delta. It's like cold/flu.
Move on.