180° from the exasperating media reports and knee-jerk reactions across the world and here in the U.S. — the word on the ground from South Africa is telling a very different tale.
Dr. Coetzee, Chair of S. African Med Soc & active practitioner, caring for C19 omicron patients: “No one here in South Africa is known to have been hospitalized with the Omicron variant, nor is anyone here believed to have fallen seriously ill with it.” - link
“If, as some evidence suggests, Omicron turns out to be a fast-spreading virus with mostly mild symptoms for the majority of the people who catch it, that would be a useful step on the road to herd immunity. we’re not – at least for now – treating patients who are severely ill. Take my first Omicron case...It didn’t occur to him that he had Covid: he thought he’d had too much sun after working outside. After he tested positive, so did his wife and four-month-old baby."
"So far, the patients who’ve tested positive for Omicron here have been mainly young men – a mixture of vaccinated & unvaccinated (though, in our statistics, ‘unvaccinated’ can also mean ‘single-vaccinated’). Only yesterday, I saw 5 more patients...all had a very mild illness."
Daniel Kotzin on Twitter noted that this variant is spreading globally via the vaccinated--they're the ones getting on airplanes, departing from South Africa or wherever, carrying the variant, and then spreading it into their own countries.
Team Apocalypse will be so disappointed.
Daniel Kotzin on Twitter noted that this variant is spreading globally via the vaccinated--they're the ones getting on airplanes, departing from South Africa or wherever, carrying the variant, and then spreading it into their own countries.