⚠️KIDS HOSPITALIZATIONS—The “highly transmissible” #Omicron variant is putting disproportionately large numbers of children under the age of 5 years old in hospitals, a top South African government medical adviser said Friday. #COVID19 🧵
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🧵/My “what we know and don’t know” about #Omicron thread
For new followers: I’m a health data expert. I look at patterns + trends across a wide variety of datasets. There are others like me, but our field doesn’t get much media attention. Without us, however, data stops flowing
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Presumably, most if not all the people spreading the #Omicron variant around the world are doubly vaccinated, since they are the only ones who can travel. So can we now all agree that #VaccinePassports are completely useless?
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I’m so tired of this but I’ll say it once more:
If #omicron turns out to be as dangerous as it well might and we once again do little to prepare for it with the time we have, then we are compounding the biggest collective political failure I have witnessed in my lifetime.
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Every country is now taking #Omicron more seriously than the UK government.
The UK government's plan is not to prevent or even slow Omicron. It's plan is to say it's inevitable.
Vaccinate as many as possible. Whoever survives will survive.
Callous and sickening.
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We find evidence of increased reinfection risk associated with emergence of the #Omicron variant, suggesting evasion of immunity from prior infection.
![Daily numbers of detected primary infections, individuals eligible to be considered for reinfection, and suspected reinfections in South Africa. A: Time series of detected primary infections. Black line indicates 7-day moving average; black points are daily values. Colored bands represent wave periods, defined as the period for which the 7-day moving average of cases was at least 15% of the corresponding wave peak (purple = wave 1, pink = wave 2, orange = wave 3). B: Population at risk for reinfection (individuals whose most recent positive test was at least 90 days ago and who have not yet had a suspected reinfection). C: Time series of suspected reinfections. Blue line indicates 7-day moving average; blue points are daily values. Source: Pulliam et al. (preprint) Increased risk of SARS-CoV-2 reinfection associated with emergence of the Omicron variant in South Africa medRxiv https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.11.11.21266068 [Figure 1]](http://web.archive.org./web/20211204110123im_/https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FFniRX2XEAIfQrz?format=jpg&name=4096x4096)
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In Hong Kong, #omicron positive individual infects someone across the hall at quarantine hotel. In Norway, 75% of people at indoor holiday party infected. Can we PLEASE stop leading with “wash your hands”, and give clear and accurate public health guidance since #COVIDisAirborne?
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If only the country already had experience of a Covid variant being out competed by a more aggressive variant just before Christmas and could learn from the mistakes made then.
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#Omicron
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FASTEST SURGE TO DATE—The #OmicronVarient is up swinging much faster in both new daily cases and positivity, than all previous waves in South Africa 🇿🇦, according to data illustrated by . This supports the faster transmission theory of #Omicron. 🧵
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Top 10 news at 10 pm has Vicky-Kat wedding details but not Resident Doctors Nation wide protest for expediting NEET PG counseling. Ofcourse what we need to know is that any drone at the wedding will be shot down and not how the country can be shot down by #omicron
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Where did the 4 diplomats who tested positive for #Omicron in #Botswana on 7 November 2021 come from? His Excellency has now emphatically answered this question. Remove the #TravelBans !!
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🎥 As the number of #Omicron coronavirus cases in Scotland rises to 29 says we need to be “proportionate” in dealing with the new variant.
🗣 She tells us how the Scottish Government is managing the situation👇
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