Tag: Omicron

Leaked China Docs Estimate 250 Million COVID Cases in 20 Days; Country Overwhelmed as ‘China Model’ on Virus Fails

China is seeing a wave of COVID-19 outbreaks across the country, and high-level Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials are among the estimated 5,000 people dying each day. There are various speculations going around on why the death rates in China appear to be higher than other countries, particularly from the Omicron variant which was shown…


LIVE at 10:30AM ET: CCP Officials Dying of COVID-19; Country Overwhelmed as ‘China Model’ On Virus Fails

China is seeing a wave of COVID-19 outbreaks across the country, and high-level Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials are among the estimated 5,000 people dying each day. There are various speculations going around on why the death rates in China appear to be higher than other countries, particularly from the Omicron variant which was shown…


Surprising Study on Omicron’s Origin Retracted After Authors Discover Contaminated Samples

The scientists who proposed that the COVID-19 Omicron variant had emerged in a broad range across Africa months before it was first detected in the south of the continent have retracted their paper, admitting that their samples were contaminated. First identified in Botswana and South Africa in November 2021, the Omicron strain has since quickly…


China Reports New Omicron Variant Spreading in 9 Provinces, Populace Fearful, Mortuaries Overwhelmed

COVID-19 cases have been increasing in China, including since the ruling communist regime eased its “zero-COVID” restrictions on Dec. 7. Netizens have been reporting that hospitals and mortuaries are being overwhelmed by demand, particularly in nine provinces where the relatively new Omicron subvariants BQ.1 and BQ.1.1 have been reported to be spreading quickly. On Dec. 14, China’s Center…


Omicron BQ COVID-19 Variants Now Make Up Over Half of US Cases

The COVID-19 Omicron subvariants BQ.1 and BQ.1.1 have risen to comprise over half of new coronavirus infections in the United States in the past week, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The CDC’s weekly variant update shows that BQ.1.1 has been responsible for 29.4 percent of new closely followed by BQ.1 which accounted for…


Omicron BQ COVID-19 Variants Now Make Up Over Half of US Cases: CDC

The COVID-19 Omicron subvariants BQ.1 and BQ.1.1 have risen to comprise over half of new coronavirus infections in the United States in the past week, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The CDC’s weekly variant update shows that BQ.1.1 has been responsible for 29.4 percent of new closely followed by BQ.1 which accounted for…


Australians Told to Avoid People as COVID-19 “Variant Soup” Looms

Deakin University associate professor in epidemiology Hassan Vally is warning about a COVID-19 “variant soup” consisting of five new strains leading the latest wave in Australia. “We never get too confident when we talk about the virus,” Vally told AAP. “Every time we think we’ve got a handle on it, there’s always a surprise around…


Rapid Waning of COVID Vaccine Requires Reevaluation of Future Booster Campaigns: Study

An Israeli study has concluded that the short-lived immunity and rapid waning of the Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine necessitates the reevaluation of future COVID-19 vaccination campaigns. The authors said that while the vaccine was effective in decreasing morbidity and mortality, “its relatively small effect on transmissibility of Omicron … and its rapid waning call for…


Pre-Omicron Natural Immunity Doesn’t Protect Well Against Omicron Subvariant: Study

The protection from prior COVID-19 infection does not protect well against reinfection against an Omicron subvariant, according to a new study. The protection, known as natural immunity, was estimated at just 6 percent against reinfection with BA.2.75, the Omicron subvariant, by researchers in Qatar, where the subvariant is the dominant virus strain. Natural immunity protected better…


Thailand Detects First Case of Drug-Resistant Omicron BQ.1 Subvariant

Thailand has detected its first case of the new Omicron BQ.1 subvariant, which experts believe could be highly contagious and resistant to the antibody medications used to protect against COVID-19. The Center for Medical Genomics at Ramathibodi hospital issued a warning on Oct. 18 about BQ.1 and BQ.1.1, both of which are the descendants of…