If you can do that for just a few weeks while Omicron blows through your area, your individual risk will start to decline. And at the same time, hospitals will start getting breathing room back, so if someone in your family does happen to get sick enough to need an IV or oxygen, they’ll be able to get it. (And I say this a lot, but if your area is experiencing an Omicron surge, this is a great time to drive carefully and postpone risky activities.)
Sunday, January 16, 2022
You're not doomed to get Omicron - by Erin Kissane
Monday, January 10, 2022
Pfizer CEO says two Covid vaccine doses aren't 'enough for omicron'
Covid-19 Variant Deltacron Is Real, Scientist Says - Bloomberg
Deltacron infection is higher among patients hospitalized for Covid-19 than among non-hospitalized patients, so that rules out the contamination hypothesis, said Kostrikis, a professor of biological sciences at the University of Cyprus and head of the Laboratory of Biotechnology and Molecular Virology.
What’s more, the samples were processed in multiple sequencing procedures in more than one country. And at least one sequence from Israel deposited in a global database exhibits genetic characteristics of deltacron, he said.
“These findings refute the undocumented statements that deltacron is a result of a technical error,” Kostrikis said.
Saturday, January 8, 2022
Omicron could be ‘first ray of light’ towards living with Covid
Omicron could be ‘first ray of light’ towards living with Covid
:“The thing that might happen in the future is you may see the emergence of a new variant that is less severe, and ultimately, in the long term, what happens is Covid becomes endemic and you have a less severe version. It’s very similar to the common cold that we’ve lived with for many years,” he told Times Radio on Saturday.What makes omicron spread so quickly? A new study offers a tantalizing clue : Goats and Soda : NPR
Friday, January 7, 2022
Boosted? Got Omicron? You Still Might Not Be 'Super' Immune - The Atlantic
Saturday, January 1, 2022
Good night, sweet prince
I'm going to shut this blog down on January 27th, before the domain renews. I think it will still exist at http://supermutantvirus.blogspot.com
It was basically an experiment in running a blog with its own domain name, and a way to bookmark information about the virus mutations. The Google newsfeed, unless you live in crazytown, does a pretty good job of this already.
Thanks to the four people who visited this site!
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Vaccines Are Effective Against the New York Variant, Studies Find - The New York Times Both the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines will ...