What is so concerning about the Omicron variant of Covid-19?

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The World Health Organisation (WHO) says Omicron poses a “very high” risk.

The WHO said there was substantial uncertainty regarding the variant’s transmissibility, immune escape potential , clinical presentation, severity of disease, and response to other available countermeasures including diagnostics and therapeutics.

“Depending on these characteristics, if another major surge of Covid-19 takes place driven by Omicron, consequences may be severe.”

 

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Had it last week, had a blocked nose for 2 days, fever and loss of taste, unvaxxed, nobody else in the house got it, coz we all unvaxxed obese smokers with unvaxxed dogs in the yard. Back to work on Monday. All is over. They can voetsek!!!

Funded by Bill gate, not surprised

What's with this flip flopping, one day its mild, next it's bad, what next?

Times live just want get their numbers up with useless propaganda

Nonsense!!!!!!!!! Thats what they want people to believe to promote their vaccines!!!

Thats wat u said about the previous Variants mos.

Well that's what a virus does, it mutates to become more infectious as it's biology is to reproduce..mass vaccination might have had something to do with it..

Misleading article and headlind

Apparently not as high a risk as the jab! ~ prove me wrong. 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇

Ag is that so!!!

That's a whole lunacy statement, Dr. Coetzee has paved down everything we need to know, WHO is now starting to become an obsessed social media attention seeker

Voetseeeeeek there's no Corona where I stay. Vaccinate Ramaphosa's children

Follow the money

Bullshit

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