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Omicron is the real deal.
Less than 2 weeks after it was first detected in South Africa, and it is now the dominant strain accounting for 76% of cases sequenced there. (Less than 1% of cases get sequenced.)
So… it looks like it will overtake Delta fairly quickly as the dominant strain.
Here’s hoping the vaccine efficacy against Omicron is high.
 
leftyjace said:
Omicron is the real deal.
Less than 2 weeks after it was first detected in South Africa, and it is now the dominant strain accounting for 76% of cases sequenced there. (Less than 1% of cases get sequenced.)
So… it looks like it will overtake Delta fairly quickly as the dominant strain.
Here’s hoping the vaccine efficacy against Omicron is high.
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It does seem like it's maybe less serious - less deadly and less damaging overall. Or at least those were the initial reports a few days ago, new information may have changed that.
 
leftyjace said:
Omicron is the real deal.
Less than 2 weeks after it was first detected in South Africa, and it is now the dominant strain accounting for 76% of cases sequenced there. (Less than 1% of cases get sequenced.)
So… it looks like it will overtake Delta fairly quickly as the dominant strain.
Here’s hoping the vaccine efficacy against Omicron is high.
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It's early, but I would like to understand if it's more transmissible or deadly than other strains. That's the true question.
 
leftyjace said:
Omicron is the real deal.
Less than 2 weeks after it was first detected in South Africa, and it is now the dominant strain accounting for 76% of cases sequenced there. (Less than 1% of cases get sequenced.)
So… it looks like it will overtake Delta fairly quickly as the dominant strain.
Here’s hoping the vaccine efficacy against Omicron is high.
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If it becomes the Omicron Persei 8 variant, we are all doomed.
 
Reportedly highly contagious but less severe symptoms with quicker recovery time. Symptoms include elvated heart rate and extreme fatigue. No loss of smell and taste associated with this variant.
 
Scat said:
Reportedly highly contagious but less severe symptoms with quicker recovery time. Symptoms include elvated heart rate and extreme fatigue. No loss of smell and taste associated with this variant.
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Damn, could be a good thing?
 
The scary thing is how fast and crazy this thing is mutating, imo. I am sure someone will point out that the flu and other viruses change every year, but with the global impact this has already had every mutation is a big deal. All it needs is to mutate a hemorrhagic factor or some such **** and we will see a true reduction in the population from this thing.

Welcome to the new normal.
 
LogGrad98 said:
The scary thing is how fast and crazy this thing is mutating, imo. I am sure someone will point out that the flu and other viruses change every year, but with the global impact this has already had every mutation is a big deal. All it needs is to mutate a hemorrhagic factor or some such **** and we will see a true reduction in the population from this thing.

Welcome to the new normal.
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That is scary because until this thing came about corona viruses were thought to be quite stable and not prone to mutation.

I honestly think best case scenario, other than having a highly effective vaccine against every possible variant that is administered to nearly 90% of the world population, is that an extremely infectious variant with very mild symptoms becomes dominate and flames itself out. That or a very suboptimal second situation where an extremely deadly and fast acting variant also flames itself out by killing people very shortly after they become infectious so that it also flames out, but in this scenario with many people dead.

All that said, I'm not a virologist and I really don't know **** about how this stuff works or how it would actually play out.
 
Gameface said:
That is scary because until this thing came about corona viruses were thought to be quite stable and not prone to mutation.

I honestly think best case scenario, other than having a highly effective vaccine against every possible variant that is administered to nearly 90% of the world population, is that an extremely infectious variant with very mild symptoms becomes dominate and flames itself out. That or a very suboptimal second situation where an extremely deadly and fast acting variant also flames itself out by killing people very shortly after they become infectious so that it also flames out, but in this scenario with many people dead.

All that said, I'm not a virologist and I really don't know **** about how this stuff works or how it would actually play out.
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Those are both of the scenarios that keep me from beating Plague, Inc. on the hardest levels.
 
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