A new lethal virus known as NeoCoV has been discovered, and it may be more transmissible – with one mutation – according to a new study by Chinese scientists from Wuhan, though some experts are cautioning that further study is needed. It has not yet made the leap to humans.
“There is some indication that it is more contagious, especially for the unvaccinated, but that it can also infect people who have been vaccinated to a greater extent,” said SSI’s technical director, Tyra Grove Krause, according to Reuters.
Omicron subvariant BA.2 being watched ‘very closely’ in Canada: Tam
Canada’s top doctor says the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) has detected more than 100 cases of a new Omicron subvariant known as BA.2, doubling the number of infections from the virus lineage that were reported earlier this week.
Dr. Theresa Tam said during Friday’s federal COVID-19 update that the BA.2 subvariant was first detected in Canada in November 2021, and has since been “closely” monitored by experts.
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It is a bleak forecast even by the Met Office’s standards – the complete collapse of society leaving armed militias and criminal gangs to roam the land unchallenged.
That is one of the doomsday scenarios set out in a report commissioned by the UK’s weather service to model the potential consequences of climate change.
The extraordinary report, called Shared Socio-economic Pathways and developed for the Government-funded UK Climate Resilience Programme, sets out supposedly ‘plausible futures’ as a result of global warming.
Get ready to learn more Greek letters. Scientists warn that Omicron’s whirlwind advance practically ensures it won’t be the last version of the coronavirus to worry the world.
The study, which was conducted by Kaiser Permanente Southern California but has not yet been peer-reviewed, also showed that people with Omicron infections are 74% less likely to need to be placed in the intensive care unit (ICU). And the study found a 53% reduction in risk of being hospitalized, said Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Among all the ways that COVID-19 affects our lives, the pandemic confronts us with a profound moral dilemma:
How should we react to the deaths of the unvaccinated?
A leaked graphic that shows Alberta Health Services’ (AHS) ‘early warning system’ shows non-ICU admissions to hospital will be at the highest they have ever been during any point of the pandemic in just two weeks.
According to the data, as of January 7, there are 1,327 “Fully vaccinated cases” in hospitals, compared with just 441 “Unvaccinated cases.” For “Partially vaccinated cases,” there are 100 people in the hospital.
Former Fox News host and top-rated podcaster Megyn Kelly tore into “prophet” Dr. Anthony Fauci, the Biden administration’s top medical adviser, accusing him of “lying” to Americans over protocols, mandates, and recommendations regarding COVID-19 and the pandemic in general.
President Joe Biden on Tuesday warned of ‘challenging’ weeks ahead as he urged unvaccinated Americans to seek out shots as the best way to protect themselves from the surging Omicron variant of COVID-19.
On Tuesday morning, The New York Times’ “Morning Newsletter” said that since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, “Americans have accepted more harm to children in exchange for less harm to adults” in a piece titled, “No Way to Grow Up.” That is, of course, a true statement. Yet that admission left many conservatives frustrated for having warned of the damage that lockdowns were doing to kids for nearly two years, only to be met with ridicule and dismissive attitudes from leftist media and politicians.
Information on the new variant is extremely limited, but it is thought to have originated in Cameroon and carry multiple mutations in the spike protein. The area most affected, which is near Marseille, has shown a significant increase in hospitalizations, but it is possible that lower vaccination rates and an older population may be to blame and it remains far too early to draw conclusions on the new variant’s epidemiology.
“Every power that government acquires using this pandemic as a pretense, it will ultimately abuse to the maximum effect possible,” he said in a recent video. “And this is just a rule that is certain as gravity.”
