The story of #Mild#Omicron Part 1
Long Thread -Story of 8 countries
Italy- Deaths due to Omicron have been higher than Delta by miles and almost reaching prevaccination levels .Vaccines were released around end December- Early January in most countries #OmicronIsNotMild ctd)
Ctd2)Denmark is second country- Again the Delta was decimated by the vaccines BUT with the Omicron the deaths have reached almost pre vaccine deaths #OmicronIsNotMild, #Omicron, #OmicronVariant , Also the Danes like others opened up after reaching good vaccination levels .
Ctd3) Country 3- Canada -Here too #Omicron crossed the deaths due to Delta by miles , reaching number of deaths before vaccination, in fact overshooting that number #OmicronIsNotMild , needless to say the Canadians are fed up because it is #Mild in the media
Ctd4) Fourth Country France -Here too deaths due to #Omicron is very high compared to Delta(Aug) while reaching the peak pre vaccine ie Jan/ Feb 2021. #OmicronIsNotMild.
Ctd5) 5th Country UK- Here too the #Omicron has caused more deaths than #Delta . However the deaths due to pre vaccines have not been reached and that gives UK a false sense of confidence, however they need to understand that it was mayhem before vaccines in UK .
Ctd6) country no 6-US -Here too the deaths due to #Omicron have crossed deaths due to Delta and may reach pre vaccination levels if the BA.2 causes a new wave on wave phenomena as in Denmark.ctd)
Ctd8) Country no 8- Japan - Deaths due to #Omicron cross the deaths before vaccines were introduced by a length .Now I come to learning from these 8 examples- 1) #OmicronIsNotMild 2) The itch to normalcy is dangerous #VaccinePlus ctd)
Ctd9) learning 3) The need to upgrade vaccines is very urgent 4) Heterologus boosters are the way forward in my opinion 5) Just boosting with the available M-RNA vaccines are not helping us as much as we want . #EarlyTreatment, #BetterBoosters ,#Covaxin , @PeterHotez
Ctd 10) I will in a day/ two put forward my views on the countries which are showing just the opposite and my learning from their experiences. #StayTuned . Let's learn from what others can teach us, no Binary Discussion and no gaslighting please.
A fourth dose of the Pfizer is able to protect only 30% odd against infection and 11% of Moderna protected against infection THOUGH the antibodies were boosted and poor outcomes were prevented still #UpgradeTheCovidVaccines
Long Thread #Omicron
The Story of A Physician.
This physician 45 / F was fine in 1st wave treating patients, second wave ( Delta) she was infected in March 2021 ( was fully vaccinated - AZ) was had just little cold for 4- 5 days then ok. Ctd)
Ctd 2) Feeling more confident she & her family took a short trip over new year , all infected by 7th of Jan 2022 she started showing 1st signs of infection ( RAT+ve) and on 15th Jan 2022 she went into a full blown cytokine storm . Hospitalized &given Remdesvir ( episode 2)ctd)
Ctd 3) thankfully her O2 levels stabilize & discharged in 5 days .Her lung shows a residual ground glass appearance around 3 weeks later , the ID specialist considers that she is now developing too much residual issues & starts discussing antifibrotic therapy / steroid. Ctd)
Long thread - The Nov 29th post & the information is all here below in the link posted and after that will be the updates for today ie 30th November@emilygraymd_mph ,@rubyslippahs,@GANyborg ,please add information that may have been missed @itosettiMD_MBA
The posts from what we know in the last 3 days across the globe on #Omicron are all at one place here. Feel free to read along . The information from 29th November will follow in the thread below .Currently this is the known Geographic spread #RPSMTrust
Ctd2) All Variants of Concern have such clusters of sudden increase of mutations,the issue is they are coming up in an area where only 70% get access to Antiretroviral (HIV Tt) therapy,help needs to go a further step ahead - covid vaccines, antiretrovirals,logistics& Monoclonals
I did a video consult with a family over a child with special needs , we end up discussing the #Omicron and then they say yeah.... we heard it is bad , a few sentences later - " Doctor we haven't been able to go out for our holidays, we are vaxxed can we go to xyz?" Ctd)
Ctd2) I am like " No , the kid is unvaxxed " They - " But we heard on Telly that the kids dont die " . That is how disinformation kills - We know since 1 year that kids with special needs have 6times more incidence of side effects of a Covid infection that a normal kid ctd)
Ctd3) that we need to understand this disinformation system doesnt discuss Long Covid in kids and that is for a purpose, it doesnt suit those running the factories if people dont turn up over fear of infection to their kids , that is why #COVIDisAirborne is not in discussion ctd)
Nov 28 posts will be in the thread below , in this post I am posting the information as we came to know on Nov 26 and 27th and then the thread will continue.
Ctd1) while the UK asks for masking in public transport and shops it leaves schools and also leaves Pubs .Meanwhile Isreal which blocks entry of all foreigners makes an exception
Ctd2) Netherlands finds 13 cases of Omicron variant among passengers from South Africa.It is getting bigger - Israel, Denmark, UK, Australia, Hongkong , the question I am asked is why make these futile efforts- My answer is let's keep trying to stop the deluge ctd)
Will try and keep everyone posted on the new developments on Omicron , the last thread became too lengthy in a day .But this is the information we had on 25/ 26 Nov. Ctd
Ctd2) I believe that it has become imperative that we immediately start finding whether the combination of Merck's Molnupiravir &Pfizers Antiviral is effective against Omicron?? we have had reports of Molnupiravir dropping efficacy yesterday in full trial.@hjelle_brian ctd)
@hjelle_brian Ctd3) virologists consider that the virus is " stealing " parts of our RNA as @hjelle_brian, to me it seems that these are efforts of virus to get past Interferons which are our defence mechanism .We know that those with Anti Interferon antibodies have bad course #Omicron ctd)