spike protein, which is the part of the virus that vaccines train our immune response to defend us from, plus the fact that. it is spreading like wildfire around the world. with its spread said to be unwittingly helped by, amongst others, foreign diplomats who entered botswana on the second week of november, crowds at the pop band steps concert two weeks later and a renewable energy company s christmas party at this restaurant in norway last week. but. again, no reason to panic. because scientists say the good news is how quickly omicron was declared a variant of concern after it was discovered. according to the medicaljournal the lancet, the earliest known case is a patient in south africa who was diagnosed with covid on the 9th of november. less than four weeks on from that, pharmaceutical companies
quickly omicron was declared a variant of concern after it was discovered. according to the medical journal the lancet, the earliest known case is a patient in south africa who was diagnosed with covid on the 9th of november. less than four weeks on from that, pharmaceutical companies are already working on multiple contingency plans. working on multiple contingency lans. , ., . ., working on multiple contingency lans. . ., ., plans. the protection of the vaccines plans. the protection of the vaccines they plans. the protection of the vaccines they already i plans. the protection of the vaccines they already have, | plans. the protection of the i vaccines they already have, next plans. the protection of the - vaccines they already have, next is to make for example eight bivalent where you have the vaccine against the assessor strain and the new variant and the other is to make a variant and the other is to make a variant specific beast. but variant and the other is to make a varian
came to the netherlands over the weekend, but it now transpires that there were two test samples between the 19th and the 23rd. why am i telling you those dates? that s because south africa reported its findings, which started this omicron thing off, on the 24th. so, should you be alarmed that cases were actually in the netherlands before south africa said anything? well, no, actually, the world health organisation says they found the first in a specimen collected on the 9th of november. so, although we only heard about this the other week, it s actually been around for longer. early evidence suggests omicron is more transmissible than many forms of covid. and there are questions about how vaccines will cope with it. moderna makes one of the most used vaccines. its chief executive has told the ft. he goes on.
outrageous that southern africa is being punished for having good surveillance and ensuring we wanted to be completely transparent and to share this data with the rest of the world as soon as we knew it and confirmed it. if you think about, you know, what we ve experienced with the delta variant, within a matter of three weeks, it was in over 53 countries. so it s going to become superfluous and irrelevant to try to block it from a few countries because it will be spreading in other countries. by the time we got to know about it, which was pretty quickly given the first patient was probably in our system, the 9th of november, transmission has probably seeded itself in most countries. so this kind of early knee-jerk reaction to block travel is
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