#OmicronVariant is ramping up is an understatement. Behold a #SARSCoV2 variant unleashed. "Spreading faster than anything we have ever seen before." The novel coronavirus will indeed find more who will be vulnerable to the disease aspect of this virus #COVID19.
Dynamic: many vaccinated believe many incorrect things: 1) You can still get infected. 2) You can still spread it it. 3) Although low %, you can be a breakthrough case. 4) Although low %, you can still succumb to the disease aspect of SARS-CoV-2 infection called COVID-19.
Dynamic: 1) Unvaccinated will be hit comparably to how we got hit year 1 as a fresh, unprotected host. 2) Unvaccinated who still underestimate: your lifestyle is conducive to helping the spread. 3) Asymptomatic spread is real - it is the "stealth" aspect of this coronavirus.
Dynamic: 1) Pandemic Fatigue: you can't just resolve to say to yourself "f*** it", I'm gonna do what I want. You must educate your self, think of others more than your self and get as healthy as you can. 2) Many think "it's over" not understanding the genetics of "SARS2".
Dynamic: 1) The #OmicronVariant has demonstrably shown itself to be incredibly infectious as SARS-CoV-2 finds new powers in inter-species, recombinant, genetic template-switching. 2) This variant baked from mid 2020 and re-emerged in Delta's decline with a new genetic structure.
Dynamic: SARS-CoV-2 has mastered "stealth" mode, not only in asymptomatic presentation while spreading in aerosol form, but arriving and emerging in new dynamic forms after improving itself right under our noses. With news Omicron is less severe: many let their guard down.
Lastly: 1) As maintained from 3rd week of January 2020 - this is the perfect coronavirus, especially for mammalian hosts. It is going through mammals globally like water in sand. 2) With extreme adaptability new forms can be expected with traits from non-human hosts. 3) Next.
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"...our results suggest progenitor of Omicron jumped from humans to mice, rapidly accumulated mutations conducive to infecting that host, then jumped back into humans, indicating an inter-species evolutionary trajectory for the Omicron outbreak." #SARSCoV2 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
This is exactly what a "Generalist Mammalian" virus looks like. Something is upon us never having been seen before. See pinned Tweet re: Generalist virus.
NIH site says this is peer reviewed now.
This scenario helps explain the many differences in the genome of the #OmicronVariant compared to previous variants, what was baking during Delta's conquest. This will continue and many more scenarios like it. Really, unstoppable, and expect wild new forms of this novel CoV.