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The #NuVariant FACTS:

šŸŸ¢South Africa health chiefs say it is causing ā€œmild illnessā€.
šŸ”“UK health chiefs say they donā€™t know how dangerous it is
šŸŸ¢South African health chiefs are relaxed about vaccine escape
šŸ”“UK health chiefs say we donā€™t know if it gets around vaccine

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šŸŸ¢South Africa health chiefs say shutting borders is pointless
šŸ”“UK health chiefs shut borders
šŸŸ¢South Africa health chiefs say world reaction is ā€œover the topā€
šŸ”“UK health chiefs say itā€™s a precaution

Is everyone seeing what is happening here? UK is not following science.
The vaccinated are already getting #COVID19 - so the #covidvariant isnā€™t any different in that scenario. And #PCR tests will increase cost of family foreign trips by hundreds of pounds. #Boris must reverse this travel nonsense nowā€¦
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Thereā€™s a new SARS-CoV-2 variant of concern: Omicron (aka B.1.1.529) #OmicronVariant

What is this Omicron COVID variant & is the panic of it justified? (spoiler alert: no)

A short #OmicronExplainer šŸ§µ about what we actually know, what we suspect, & whatā€™s still unknown.
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4 reasons Omicron is worrisome:
1ļøāƒ£ it is spreading rapidly in South Africa (known)
2ļøāƒ£ it is highly mutated (known)
3ļøāƒ£some mutations likely increase transmissibility (suspected)
4ļøāƒ£others *may* allow it to evade existing immunity or vaccines (unknown)

Weā€™ll talk about all 4...
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First some nomenclature:
B.1.1.529 (its Pango lineage) is the same as ā€œOmicron" (WHO declared it a variant of concern & assigned a Greek letter) #OmicronVariant
Itā€™s also known as K21 (Nextstrain clade)

Itā€™s erroneously been called the #NuVariant ... yeah thatā€™s not a thing
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The #NuVariant was foreseen and preventable. Following the most far-sighted scientists, the WSWS warned that a more dangerous #covidvariant would evolve unless the virus is eliminated globally. We united many of these scientists on October 24. 1/
wsws.org/en/special/pagā€¦
These warnings were ignored by governments and the corporate media, who have continuously lied to the public and downplayed the dangers. Their lies and cover-up will be exposed by the Global Workersā€™ Inquest into the COVID-19 Pandemic #CovidInquest 2/ wsws.org/en/articles/20ā€¦
The ā€œnew pandemicā€ (HT @yaneerbaryam) must be stopped now! As the 3rd year of the #Covid_19 pandemic approaches, the working class and scientists must draw the lessons of the past two years. All policies must be guided by science and the prioritization of lives over profits! 3/
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We are in a state of emergency. Our hospitals are days away from #codezwart, the government is psychotically insisting schools stay open, insisting on mass infection and 20+ months of misinformed and gaslighted public who has had enough. Now we have the #nuvariant #B11529.

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.#B11529 #nuvariant is a Black Swan that is 7x more transmissible than the Delta variant, with preliminary estimates of an R0 of 16-20 and is likely to have immune escape, both from vaccines and infection. It is a monster.

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Whatever ā€œherd immunityā€ ā€”both in terms of vaccination and infection ā€”weā€™ve built up against #deltavariant is useless against #B11529 #NuVariant.

South African demonstrates this clearly ā€” low vaccination grade, mass infection = #b11529 is capable of immune escape.

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šŸ“BREAKINGā€” Israel šŸ‡®šŸ‡± reports its first confirmed case of new #B11529 coronavirus variant in a traveler who flew āœˆļø from Malawi āž”ļø this is now the 3rd case outside of Africa (after 2 cases found in Hong Kong šŸ‡­šŸ‡° - see thread šŸ‘‡). #NuVariant

newsnodes.com/nu_tracker
2) in HK, #B11529 2/: fortunately caught by šŸ‡­šŸ‡°ā€™s quarantine system for international arrivals. But thatā€™s where the good news endsā€” #B11259 was barely caught by a 4th PCR test in cross infection across a hotel hallway. Worseā€”both were Pfizer vaccinated.šŸ‘‡
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3) Here is Israel šŸ‡®šŸ‡± Ministryā€™s statement ā€” two other cases under suspicion of #B11529 ā€” worrisome ā€” all individuals were vaccinated too.
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āš ļøMy godā€”the new #B11259 variant being possibly ~500% more competitively infectious is the most staggering stat yet. Also, #NuVariant has more than >2x the number of bad spike mutations than Delta. Hereā€™s an updated šŸ§µšŸ‘‡

Model by @JPWeiland matches up with graph by @jburnmurdoch
2) That spike in #B11259 displacing Delta has now caused shockwaves worldwide. It is really bad. Not only that but the previous #C12 variant also seems to be slowly growing and displacing Delta too in South Africa.
3) the new #B11259 variant has an ā€œextremely highā€ 32 worrisome mutations in the spike. That is a ā€œreal concernā€ and much much much more worrisome than any others found to date. šŸ‘‡
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B.1.1.529 seems to have gone from 0.1% to 50% in just a couple of weeks, when it took Delta several months to achieve that..!!

Brace up folks..!!
#NuVariant

Things are getting worrisome folks..!! Read and understand this thread..!!
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āš ļøBREAKINGā€”HOTEL CROSS TRANSMISSION OF #B11529ā€”Traveler from South AfricašŸ‡æšŸ‡¦ flew to Hong KongšŸ‡­šŸ‡° with new variantā€”but wasnā€™t discovered until 4th day of quarantine on 2nd PCR. Another guest across hallway cross-infectedā€”only positive on 8th day on 4th PCR! Both Pfizer vaccinatedšŸ§µ Image
2) the viral load of these two with #B11529 in Hong Kong hotels were VERY high. PCR Ct values of 18 and 19!!! Thatā€™s insanely high considering they were negative on recent PCR tests. Damn, looks like vaccine evasion could be real with this variant.
3) and hell yes itā€™s very airborne. The hotel guests were in different room across the hallway from each other. Environmental samples found the virus in 25 of 87 swab across both rooms.
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BREAKING. UK šŸ‡¬šŸ‡§ imposes Africa travel restrictions over #B11529 variant fears. This variant is the most alarming variant found since #DeltaVariant discovery. Scientists worldwide are worried. B11529 (S-gene dropout) signals spiking across South Africa. šŸ§µ bbc.co.uk/news/uk-594242ā€¦
2) In KZN regionā€¦ #B11529 is now becoming dominant over the region including displacing #Delta. See thread šŸ§µ below šŸ‘‡
3) this #B11529 variant has 32 spike mutations ā€” over 2x more than #DeltaVariant had in its spike. Many scientists say B11529 has an ā€œawful spike profileā€ based on its mutations and locations.
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āš ļøā€œDOMINANTā€ā€¦ a new variant is worrying epidemiologistsā€”called #B11529ā€“it has just ā€œbecoming dominantā€ in South Africa, displacing even #DeltaVariant (HT @MoshabelaMosa). And our other variant #C12 also growing. B11529 has an ā€œawful spike profileā€ says @PeacockFlu. šŸ§µ #COVID19
2) I talked about worried many fellow scientists are about #B11529ā€“ many expressed ā€œreal concernā€, and that they āž”ļø havenā€™t seen as worrisome of a variant since #deltavariant ā¬‡ļø its got a lot of bad mutations in the spike. Way more than Delta.
3) this #B11529 variant is now in Hong Kongā€” caught while in quarantine.
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