REINFECTION RISK—New #Omicron study finds huge surge in #COVID19 **reinfections**. Worse, relative to old waves—➡️ huge numbers of infections in new Omicron wave are reinfections. How much? 📍2.4x higher reinfection risk with Omicron. 🧵 HT @SACEMAdirector
medrxiv.org/content/10.110…
2) Not just merely a 2nd infection — is possible to also get a **THIRD INFECTION** with #COVID19. Let’s look at this graph - many people got a third infection recently too in the #omicron wave. 👇
3) There has been 332 people in South Africa 🇿🇦 documented with a 3rd infection (aka a two reinfections). And 35k with one reinfection.
4) Reinfections (suspected) are also higher in YOUNG ADULTS! (South Africa).
5) as result, this also further aids the growth of #OmicronVariant in South Africa. Much faster relative growth compared with older waves.
Figure by @rid1tweets
6) thus #Omicron wave now by far the fastest variant surge to date. See thread 🧵 below
7) We could soon have “twin simultaneous outbreaks” of both #Omicron and #DeltaVariant together says @PeterHotez — read this 👇 thedailybeast.com/omicron-and-de…
8) This figure is such bad news. I can’t tell you how worried sick I am looking at this. And the hospitalization curves are getting revised upwards ⬆️ day by day as they backfill more hospitalizations from last week.
Thx for the log graph @jburnmurdoch
9) I’m not kidding about the delayed hospitalization backfill reporting… look what happens:
👀 OBJECTS IN THE REARVIEW MIRROR MAY APPEAR SMALLER THAN THEY ARE!!! 👀
⚠️Bottomline hospitalizations are surging. Almost 10x rise in 2 weeks!
10) A good #Omicron variant summary from my Twitter friend @DataDrivenMD - he’s a good follow.
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