EXPLAINER: Could the Omicron variant bring milder illness?

, spreading now in southern Africa and detected in over 30 other countries, has prompted fears it could significantly undermine the effectiveness of vaccines against COVID-19.

There were no cases of severe disease, hospitalization, or death. However, the European agency said it would require data on hundreds of cases to accurately assess disease complications, estimating that could take several weeks. In addition, most cases detected in Europe so far have been in younger people who were fully vaccinated, making them less likely to suffer severe illness.

“Some evidence from South Africa suggests that it may actually cause more mild illness but … I caution you that a lot of the patients South Africa initially were among young university students,” Dr. Carlos Del Rio, an infectious diseases expert at Emory University in Atlanta, said on Thursday during an online briefing from the Infectious Diseases Society of America.While data on real world infections continues to emerge, scientists are conducting laboratory studies to decipher Omicron.

Some scientists have theorized Omicron may have developed over a period of months in an immunocompromised individual, such as an HIV patient in southern Africa. If so, “the virus adapted not to kill that host,” Wherry said.Will Omicron become the dominant variant?

This study had started as early as March 2021, when its called B1.1.529, along with Delta, Epsilon, Gamma, Lambda, Mu... Data on its mutated spike proteins is available , however, being heavily censored by the Big Techs if the findings is not favoring the Big Pharma's & W.H.O.

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