It wasn't that long ago to forget how Trump made agencies bow down to him. Anything from that Andy dude should be banned.
"WW C"- COVID-19, GLOBAL CASES SURPASS 676 MILLION...CASES 676,609,955 DEATHS 6,881,955 US CASES 103,804,263 US DEATHS 1,123,836 8:30pm 1/28/24
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It wasn't that long ago to forget how Trump made agencies bow down to him. Anything from that Andy dude should be banned.
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It's only a matter of time
Canada Confirms First Omicron Cases, Israel Shuts Border
PANIC SETS IN
Travel bans and new regulations have cut off much of southern Africa from the rest of the world even though no one knows if this variant is worse than Delta.
Canada has confirmed its first two cases of the super-mutated Omicron variant that is now popping up in countries all over the globe, officials in Ontario revealed on Sunday. The patients had recently returned to the country from Nigeria, according to a statement from the Chief Medical Officer of Health.
Meanwhile, thirteen of the 61 people who tested positive for COVID-19 on two flights from South Africa to the Netherlands were infected with the new variant. Each passenger had to either have a vaccine certificate or a negative COVID-19 test before boarding the KLM flights, meaning either the vaccines didn’t stop infection, the tests didn’t pick up the virus, or the virus wasn’t detectable at the time the tests were performed.
Those who tested positive are confined to an airport hotel in Amsterdam, but the more than 550 people who flew with them were allowed to travel to their final destinations after a negative PCR test. Many of the passengers who were on KLM connecting flights received gift bags with sparkling wine and an apology for the inconvenience.
The news of the positive tests will only add to the worldwide jitters over Omicron—which has prompted countries to ban certain flights, upset the stock market, and sent scientists rushing to discover everything they can about the new strain. On Sunday, Moderna chief Paul Burton did little to calm fears, telling Bloomberg he suspects Omicron “may elude current vaccines.”
Nearly every country in Europe now has at least one suspected case with many confirming infections linked to travel to Africa. Denmark, Germany, Austria, Italy, Belgium and the Czech Republic have confirmed cases; several other countries have identified suspected cases. Australia also confirmed two cases of the new variant on Sunday in travelers who had arrived from Africa. In Italy, a vaccinated man who flew from Mozambique to Milan tested positive at the airport on arrival, but his case was not confirmed as Omicron until he traveled south to his home near Naples. Health authorities are now scrambling to do contact tracing to determine whom he or his family might have been in contact with.
Australia has also confirmed its first cases of the variant. The U.K., no longer part of the European Union, has at least two confirmed cases, and will now require everyone to quarantine for at least two days and take a PCR test upon arrival into the country. The U.S. has not yet confirmed a case but Dr. Anthony Fauci said it’s only a matter of time, as officials banned flights from eight countries. Israel, which has just one confirmed case, took the extreme step of blocking all foreigners from entering the country for at least two weeks.
“It’s a temporary and necessary step,” Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said.
On Sunday, Morocco also announced it would be shutting its airports to incoming flights for 2 weeks over Omicron fears.
The world should have been ready for Omicron. For months, health experts have warned that global vaccination is the only way out of the pandemic, yet just 7 percent of the African continent has received even a first dose of any vaccine. When India was the epicenter of the pandemic due to a delayed vaccine rollout—which propagated the Delta variant among the unvaccinated—everyone said Africa would be next. And it was.
Michael Head, a senior research fellow in global health at the University of Southampton, told CNN that variants like Delta and now Omicron are a “natural consequence of being too slow to vaccinate the world.” He said, “We still have large unvaccinated populations, like we have across sub-Saharan Africa, and these are susceptible to big outbreaks.”
The global approach has been to just close off southern Africa despite the fact that the South African health authority has said at least so far the Omicron cases don’t seem to be any more severe than other variants. The president of Malawi said Sunday that closing off much of Africa for being transparent about contagion is nothing more than “Afrophobia.” Writing on his Facebook Page, he said the travel bans were uncalled for. “Covid measures must be based on science, not Afrophobia.”
Researchers know that Omicron differs from previous strains of COVID in that it has more than 30 mutations to its spike protein—which is what allows it to bind to host cells. That raises the question of whether it is more transmissible; some experts fear the answer is yes, because the emergence of Omicron coincides with a sudden surge in new cases in South Africa.
Another big question is how easily Omicron can subvert the vaccine and whether it can cause severe illness or death in the vaccinated. David Hui, a pandemic adviser in Hong Kong, said it was found in two people who had been vaccinated with the Pfizer shot, but their symptoms were very mild.
On Face the Nation on Sunday, Dr. Scott Gottlieb was hopeful that current vaccines could still be effective against the new variant, especially with booster shots. He said that the vaccine makers “have a pretty good degree of confidence that a boosted vaccine—three full doses of vaccine—is going to be fairly protective against this new variant.”
Gottlieb added that it was “almost a certainty” that Omicron is already circulating in the U.S. but said the travel ban on South Africa was too onerous. “We’re punishing South Africa for doing the right thing and telling other nations ... we’re giving them a real disincentive to [share data] because if they turn over new variants, this is what’s going to happen to them.”
Canada Confirms First Omicron Cases, Israel Shuts Border (thedailybeast.com)[/CENTER]
PANIC SETS IN
Travel bans and new regulations have cut off much of southern Africa from the rest of the world even though no one knows if this variant is worse than Delta.
Canada has confirmed its first two cases of the super-mutated Omicron variant that is now popping up in countries all over the globe, officials in Ontario revealed on Sunday. The patients had recently returned to the country from Nigeria, according to a statement from the Chief Medical Officer of Health.
Meanwhile, thirteen of the 61 people who tested positive for COVID-19 on two flights from South Africa to the Netherlands were infected with the new variant. Each passenger had to either have a vaccine certificate or a negative COVID-19 test before boarding the KLM flights, meaning either the vaccines didn’t stop infection, the tests didn’t pick up the virus, or the virus wasn’t detectable at the time the tests were performed.
Those who tested positive are confined to an airport hotel in Amsterdam, but the more than 550 people who flew with them were allowed to travel to their final destinations after a negative PCR test. Many of the passengers who were on KLM connecting flights received gift bags with sparkling wine and an apology for the inconvenience.
The news of the positive tests will only add to the worldwide jitters over Omicron—which has prompted countries to ban certain flights, upset the stock market, and sent scientists rushing to discover everything they can about the new strain. On Sunday, Moderna chief Paul Burton did little to calm fears, telling Bloomberg he suspects Omicron “may elude current vaccines.”
Nearly every country in Europe now has at least one suspected case with many confirming infections linked to travel to Africa. Denmark, Germany, Austria, Italy, Belgium and the Czech Republic have confirmed cases; several other countries have identified suspected cases. Australia also confirmed two cases of the new variant on Sunday in travelers who had arrived from Africa. In Italy, a vaccinated man who flew from Mozambique to Milan tested positive at the airport on arrival, but his case was not confirmed as Omicron until he traveled south to his home near Naples. Health authorities are now scrambling to do contact tracing to determine whom he or his family might have been in contact with.
Australia has also confirmed its first cases of the variant. The U.K., no longer part of the European Union, has at least two confirmed cases, and will now require everyone to quarantine for at least two days and take a PCR test upon arrival into the country. The U.S. has not yet confirmed a case but Dr. Anthony Fauci said it’s only a matter of time, as officials banned flights from eight countries. Israel, which has just one confirmed case, took the extreme step of blocking all foreigners from entering the country for at least two weeks.
“It’s a temporary and necessary step,” Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said.
On Sunday, Morocco also announced it would be shutting its airports to incoming flights for 2 weeks over Omicron fears.
The world should have been ready for Omicron. For months, health experts have warned that global vaccination is the only way out of the pandemic, yet just 7 percent of the African continent has received even a first dose of any vaccine. When India was the epicenter of the pandemic due to a delayed vaccine rollout—which propagated the Delta variant among the unvaccinated—everyone said Africa would be next. And it was.
Michael Head, a senior research fellow in global health at the University of Southampton, told CNN that variants like Delta and now Omicron are a “natural consequence of being too slow to vaccinate the world.” He said, “We still have large unvaccinated populations, like we have across sub-Saharan Africa, and these are susceptible to big outbreaks.”
The global approach has been to just close off southern Africa despite the fact that the South African health authority has said at least so far the Omicron cases don’t seem to be any more severe than other variants. The president of Malawi said Sunday that closing off much of Africa for being transparent about contagion is nothing more than “Afrophobia.” Writing on his Facebook Page, he said the travel bans were uncalled for. “Covid measures must be based on science, not Afrophobia.”
Researchers know that Omicron differs from previous strains of COVID in that it has more than 30 mutations to its spike protein—which is what allows it to bind to host cells. That raises the question of whether it is more transmissible; some experts fear the answer is yes, because the emergence of Omicron coincides with a sudden surge in new cases in South Africa.
Another big question is how easily Omicron can subvert the vaccine and whether it can cause severe illness or death in the vaccinated. David Hui, a pandemic adviser in Hong Kong, said it was found in two people who had been vaccinated with the Pfizer shot, but their symptoms were very mild.
On Face the Nation on Sunday, Dr. Scott Gottlieb was hopeful that current vaccines could still be effective against the new variant, especially with booster shots. He said that the vaccine makers “have a pretty good degree of confidence that a boosted vaccine—three full doses of vaccine—is going to be fairly protective against this new variant.”
Gottlieb added that it was “almost a certainty” that Omicron is already circulating in the U.S. but said the travel ban on South Africa was too onerous. “We’re punishing South Africa for doing the right thing and telling other nations ... we’re giving them a real disincentive to [share data] because if they turn over new variants, this is what’s going to happen to them.”
Canada Confirms First Omicron Cases, Israel Shuts Border (thedailybeast.com)[/CENTER]
It’s too late this variant is all over the place….We have to keep fighting But this virus is outsmarting us around the edges especially with stupid anti-vaccine peopleCanada Confirms First Omicron Cases, Israel Shuts Border
PANIC SETS IN
Travel bans and new regulations have cut off much of southern Africa from the rest of the world even though no one knows if this variant is worse than Delta.
Canada Confirms First Omicron Cases, Israel Shuts Border (thedailybeast.com)[/CENTER]
I pray for you Canadian niggas daily...Canada Confirms First Omicron Cases, Israel Shuts Border
PANIC SETS IN
Travel bans and new regulations have cut off much of southern Africa from the rest of the world even though no one knows if this variant is worse than Delta.
Canada has confirmed its first two cases of the super-mutated Omicron variant that is now popping up in countries all over the globe, officials in Ontario revealed on Sunday. The patients had recently returned to the country from Nigeria, according to a statement from the Chief Medical Officer of Health.
Meanwhile, thirteen of the 61 people who tested positive for COVID-19 on two flights from South Africa to the Netherlands were infected with the new variant. Each passenger had to either have a vaccine certificate or a negative COVID-19 test before boarding the KLM flights, meaning either the vaccines didn’t stop infection, the tests didn’t pick up the virus, or the virus wasn’t detectable at the time the tests were performed.
Those who tested positive are confined to an airport hotel in Amsterdam, but the more than 550 people who flew with them were allowed to travel to their final destinations after a negative PCR test. Many of the passengers who were on KLM connecting flights received gift bags with sparkling wine and an apology for the inconvenience.
The news of the positive tests will only add to the worldwide jitters over Omicron—which has prompted countries to ban certain flights, upset the stock market, and sent scientists rushing to discover everything they can about the new strain. On Sunday, Moderna chief Paul Burton did little to calm fears, telling Bloomberg he suspects Omicron “may elude current vaccines.”
Nearly every country in Europe now has at least one suspected case with many confirming infections linked to travel to Africa. Denmark, Germany, Austria, Italy, Belgium and the Czech Republic have confirmed cases; several other countries have identified suspected cases. Australia also confirmed two cases of the new variant on Sunday in travelers who had arrived from Africa. In Italy, a vaccinated man who flew from Mozambique to Milan tested positive at the airport on arrival, but his case was not confirmed as Omicron until he traveled south to his home near Naples. Health authorities are now scrambling to do contact tracing to determine whom he or his family might have been in contact with.
Australia has also confirmed its first cases of the variant. The U.K., no longer part of the European Union, has at least two confirmed cases, and will now require everyone to quarantine for at least two days and take a PCR test upon arrival into the country. The U.S. has not yet confirmed a case but Dr. Anthony Fauci said it’s only a matter of time, as officials banned flights from eight countries. Israel, which has just one confirmed case, took the extreme step of blocking all foreigners from entering the country for at least two weeks.
“It’s a temporary and necessary step,” Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said.
On Sunday, Morocco also announced it would be shutting its airports to incoming flights for 2 weeks over Omicron fears.
The world should have been ready for Omicron. For months, health experts have warned that global vaccination is the only way out of the pandemic, yet just 7 percent of the African continent has received even a first dose of any vaccine. When India was the epicenter of the pandemic due to a delayed vaccine rollout—which propagated the Delta variant among the unvaccinated—everyone said Africa would be next. And it was.
Michael Head, a senior research fellow in global health at the University of Southampton, told CNN that variants like Delta and now Omicron are a “natural consequence of being too slow to vaccinate the world.” He said, “We still have large unvaccinated populations, like we have across sub-Saharan Africa, and these are susceptible to big outbreaks.”
The global approach has been to just close off southern Africa despite the fact that the South African health authority has said at least so far the Omicron cases don’t seem to be any more severe than other variants. The president of Malawi said Sunday that closing off much of Africa for being transparent about contagion is nothing more than “Afrophobia.” Writing on his Facebook Page, he said the travel bans were uncalled for. “Covid measures must be based on science, not Afrophobia.”
Researchers know that Omicron differs from previous strains of COVID in that it has more than 30 mutations to its spike protein—which is what allows it to bind to host cells. That raises the question of whether it is more transmissible; some experts fear the answer is yes, because the emergence of Omicron coincides with a sudden surge in new cases in South Africa.
Another big question is how easily Omicron can subvert the vaccine and whether it can cause severe illness or death in the vaccinated. David Hui, a pandemic adviser in Hong Kong, said it was found in two people who had been vaccinated with the Pfizer shot, but their symptoms were very mild.
On Face the Nation on Sunday, Dr. Scott Gottlieb was hopeful that current vaccines could still be effective against the new variant, especially with booster shots. He said that the vaccine makers “have a pretty good degree of confidence that a boosted vaccine—three full doses of vaccine—is going to be fairly protective against this new variant.”
Gottlieb added that it was “almost a certainty” that Omicron is already circulating in the U.S. but said the travel ban on South Africa was too onerous. “We’re punishing South Africa for doing the right thing and telling other nations ... we’re giving them a real disincentive to [share data] because if they turn over new variants, this is what’s going to happen to them.”
Canada Confirms First Omicron Cases, Israel Shuts Border (thedailybeast.com)[/CENTER]
You know that if it's in Canada.... it's a pretty safe bet that it's already here.... I'm calling New York state as the first case
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Better save some of those prayers for the New York niggas.... us New Jersey niggas too....
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I told people on Twitter two days ago that shit is already in America
I'm up for my Moderna booster on the 7th...... I'll be calling CVS to see if I can get it one day this week
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My booster shot is scheduled for Wednesday I’m going to be the first one in lineI'm up for my Moderna booster on the 7th...... I'll be calling CVS to see if I can get it one day this week
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I bet either California or any of the Pacific Northwest states might get it..
Just saw MSNBC broke into programming saying the variant has been detected in Canada
The killer's in the fucking house already... ne need in locking the doors and windows....
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Bruh apppointments are wideeeeeeeeeee open everywhere.I'm up for my Moderna booster on the 7th...... I'll be calling CVS to see if I can get it one day this week
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I got my booster 2 weeks ago and I had my pick of days and time to get the shot.
It was wide open but right now with this new variant and the numbers was shooting up the last two weeks is going to get mighty tight so People please hurry up and get this booster
Yep the killer has always been in the house and nobody didn’t know it until it was too lateThe killer's in the fucking house already... ne need in locking the doors and windows....
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Problem is we been lied to constantly about this shit. From
"masks don't help" to "take the masks off and stop social distancing" to "economy is back, get back to normal bitches!" and everything in between. MSM downplays the fact that some places in the world have terrible vaccination rates and not by choice. They downplay the dinosaurs who run businesses rushing to get back to normal instead of staying virtual.After damn near 2 years of data, we know who is MOST vulnerable to severe complications/death, yet no huge narrative to protect those people from any mutation that is simply vaccine resistant.
Hold up masks do help hell since I’ve been wearing a mask I haven’t caught a cold or sore throat for At least two years.Problem is we been lied to constantly about this shit. From
After damn near 2 years of data, we know who is MOST vulnerable to severe complications/death, yet no huge narrative to protect those people from any mutation that is simply vaccine resistant.
I know that. I'm mocking the MSM for when they tried to tell us masks don't work back in March 2020. Remember when it took an IQ of 150 and 60 hours of specialized training for masks to work? Remember the "only wear N90 masks or you minus whale be deep inhaling covid" narrative.
The mask myth was debunked in this thread back when they were still telling us to wash our hands for 20 seconds.
Oh oops I just reread your reply
Initially they said that but people didn’t read the full report you had to be super healthy to deal with the new variant if you have any health issues its going to eat you alive. Let’s see how this Variant acts with Europeans and Americans.
His dumbass a doctor.