COVID-19: Emergence of Omicron variant could be down to 'reservoirs' of virus in the unvaccinated and immunosuppressed

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Barry Schoub, the chair of South Africa's ministerial advisory committee on COVID vaccines, said it would be 'logical' that the high prevalence of HIV in southern Africa had an impact

He said:"This virus is a plastic virus - in other words, it tends to mutate very readily.

HIV - or the human immunodeficiency virus -"damages the cells in your immune system and weakens your ability to fight everyday diseases", according to the NHS.maybe part of the story behind Omicron, Dr Schoub said:"It may be part of the story. "People who are on treatment are well controlled - that would not be a problem. They are immunocompetent, like the rest of us.

 

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