It could take between two and four weeks to nail down the facts about Omicron itself, but according to Prof Salim Abdool Karim, “current vaccines’ effectiveness against hospitalisation and disease is likely to remain strong”.
He said that while the issue of vaccines was “the area that has created concern and is behind the global over-reaction”, there is cautious but positive news. While more research is needed on this as well as the variant’s effect on severe disease and transmissibility, “there is much we can extrapolate at this point based on mutations familiar to us from previous variants”.
Its clear that scientists want us all 2 be vaccinate& that's commendable BUT 'likely' is not assuring, esp. with the amount of fake vaccine 'info' that's flooding social media. Its OK to say just get vaccinate but this 'most likely' & 'there's enough support' is not assurances.
Amazing that just over a week ago we had an oversupply of vaccines, so now we have a variant and will mandate vaccines to take up the overflow - is anyone watching or everyone blind?
Really? So we manufactured a vaccine, that was ineffective for variant 1 to 3, so we have to wait for variant 4 for it to be effective? No-one can see the irony of this?
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