May be people with weaker immune system are more probably to get infected? First, second or whatever time.

China and Omicron

Hong Kong residents returning from the United States are being forced to spend one week in a 'spartain' quarantine camp, after which they must serve out two weeks in a hotel room that they pay for themselves, according to the South China Morning Post.

The new measures which were announced on Friday come after the city's health authorities elevated the country to the highest Covid-19 risk level, prompted by one confirmed case of the Omicron variant in a traveler from the US - an asymptomatic 37-year-old man who had received two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and traveled from Los Angeles on Dec. 7.

In a press release, the city said that those arriving from the US would be subject to the "most stringent quarantine and testing requirements," which would take effect on Monday.

God, its a miracle!

Scientists at the University of Hong Kong have discovered that the omicron strain SARS-CoV-2 multiplies in the human bronchi 70 times faster than the delta strain and the original Wuhan variant of the coronavirus. This property could explain why a new mutation in the virus is more easily transmitted between people than previous ones.

The chief infectious disease specialist of the United States, Anthony Fauci, called the omicron the most infectious variant of the coronavirus of all that have been recorded so far. According to him, the omicron strain most easily transmits COVID-19, and the number of cases of infection with this particular variant doubles on average every three days. “Omicron will very soon take on a dominant role. I suppose it will happen within a few weeks, ”he suggested.

COVID for now is most lucky ever mutating virus in history, if other viruses behaved even 10 times less... no living being could exit on planed Earth.

Begs the larger question: If Omicron is essentially the "flu," why the gross overreaction and push to inoculate?

@mitkoo

It is certainly not last, far from it.

Yeah likely to last Nov 2024 at least. 3 years away.

Chief Medical Officer Dr. Allen Sills:

"I think all of our concern about [asymptomatic spread] has been going down based on what we've been seeing throughout the past several months," Sills told ESPN. "We've got our hands full with symptomatic people. Can I tell you tonight that there has never been a case when someone without symptoms passed it on to someone else? No, of course I can't say that. But what I can say to you is that I think it's a very, very tiny fraction of the overall problem, if it exists at all."

"Clearly if you want to look at the overall pattern and concern about transmission, it is not being driven by people who have no idea that they are infected and they are infecting scores of others. This is being driven by people with symptoms and the exposures during that symptomatic period."

Extremely interesting remark

The head of Rospotrebnadzor Anna Popova called the main difference between the omicron-strain of coronavirus from the previous ones. According to her, unlike previously encountered variants, mice and rats are infected with omicron.

Biobot Analytics, the Cambridge-based company that collects the wastewater data, said Thursday that “undercounting is now more substantial than ever.”

In fact, since early December, the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority has had to quintuple the y-axis on their chart to capture the exponential spike, which now dwarfs the previous surges in the spring of 2020 and last winter.

A carrier of the omicron strain of coronavirus can infect about a hundred people at a time m told immunologist-allergist Vladimir Bolibok.

According to him, omicron is the most contagious not only of all previous variants of COVID-19, but also of other diseases. Before that, measles was the most contagious disease, but a new mutation of the coronavirus has surpassed it, the doctor said.

In order to infect another person, a simple conversation or even yawning is enough. “If someone coughed or sneezed alone, then this number is enough for 100 people at once,” Bolibok said. The specialist warned that because of this, an “outrageous burden on healthcare” is possible, and therefore not all patients will be able to receive assistance.

We failed

For ALMOST two years, we - the press and the population - have been almost hypnotically preoccupied with the authorities' daily corona virus news.

WE HAVE STARED at the oscillations of the number pendulum swings when it came to infected, hospitalized and died with corona. And we've got the meaning of the pendulum's smallest movements laid out by experts, politicians and authorities, who have constantly warned us about the dormant corona monster under our beds. A monster just waiting for us to fall asleep so it can strike in the gloom and darkness of the night.

THE CONSTANT mental alertness has worn off tremendously on all of us. That is why we - the press - must also take responsibility for our own efforts. And we have failed.

WE HAVE NOT been responsible enough to demand explanation what it actually means that people are hospitalized with corona and not because of corona. Because it makes a difference. A big difference. Exactly, the official hospitalization numbers have been shown to be 27 percent higher than the actual figure for how many there are in the hospital, simply because they have corona. We only know that now.

OF COURSE , it is first and foremost the authorities who are responsible for informing the population correctly, accurately and honestly. The figures for how many are sick and died of corona should, for obvious reasons, have been published long ago, so we got the clearest picture of the monster under the bed.

IN ALL , the messages of the authorities and politicians to the people in this historic crisis leave much to be desired. And therefore they lie as they have ridden when sections of the population lose confidence in them.

ANOTHER example: The vaccines are consistently referred to as our 'superweapon'. And our hospitals are called 'superhospitals'. Nevertheless, these super-hospitals are apparently maximally pressured, even though almost the entire population is armed with a super-weapon. Even children have been vaccinated on a huge scale, which has not been done in our neighboring countries.

IN OTHER WORDS, there is something here that does not deserve the term 'super'. Whether it's the vaccines, the hospitals, or a mixture of it all, is every man's bid. But at least the authorities' communication to the population in no way deserves the term 'super'. On the contrary.

https://ekstrabladet.dk/nyheder/lederen/vi-fejlede/9072013

Omicron spreading speed

In St. Petersburg, not just another rise in the wave of coronavirus is observed, the growth is colossal, Vice Governor Oleg Ergashev said at a press conference on January 19.

“If over the past weeks we have been sick from two to two and a half thousand people a day, then in the last three days a colossal increase in the incidence has been recorded. It can be called explosive, vertical,” Fontanka quotes Ergashev. “If yesterday we talked about weekly growth of 109%, today we are talking about an increase in the incidence of 147%.

The new strain of the virus has its colossal features. This is a strain that will hit in high numbers. If earlier we said that one person infects from 7 to 10 people, then with a new strain, their number will be in the tens, and may even reach hundreds of people," the Vice Governor summed up.

The total number of those vaccinated in our country is quite impressive: 3 million 14 thousand, which is 85% of the entire adult population. And 2 million 819 thousand have passed the full cycle. These are quite high figures, taking into account the number of vaccinated and the number of recoveries. Our collective immunity is 88% - according to the calculation method of Rospotrebnadzor. And according to the methodology of the Ministry of Health, even more - it approaches 100%," Ergashev said.