Early indications of the severity of the Omicron Covid-19 variant are “a bit encouraging,” top US pandemic adviser Anthony Fauci said on Sunday, while cautioning more information was still needed.
“Omicron has a transmission advantage” in South Africa, where the variant was first reported, said Fauci in a CNN interview, noting the country had a low level of cases before it saw “almost a vertical spike upwards, which is almost exclusively Omicron.”
“Though it’s too early to really make any definitive statements about it, thus far, it does not look like there’s a great degree of severity to it. Thus far, the signals are a bit encouraging,” said Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
(AP)
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Omicron Case Severity Is ‘Encouraging Nothing new. Already old news. Not worth taxpayers’ money on fauci, if he is only capable of repeating already old news.
Just like the whole covid thing was much ado about nothing. Like the congressman said he over hyped it.
He’s so full of it…just give him a couple hours. He’ll flip-flop a few dozen times. He’s not capable of uttering the words: “I don’t know”.
He’s a sociopathic murderer who looks like a genial grandpa and a kindly doctor
He’s responsible for so many deaths in his forty years in the NIH
He’s experimented on orphans and also on poor people in Africa who didn’t know they were being used as test subjects for his most dangerous drug trials
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How come Fauci says its encouraging?
Shouldn’t he cash in on it and stir up a panic?
Something smells fishy.
If they weren’t testing everyone that catches a cold for Covid, the Omicron wouldn’t be causing a spike because all the Omicron victims would be diagnosed with nothing more than a severe cold. The governments going panicking over this new Covid variant is way overreach.
If Fauci were to say so he might then lose his continuous opportunity to find himself on TV and that would be terrible.
Omicron is the beginning of the end of this entire Corona, because more transmissible, but very mild symptoms {still infinitely better to vaccinate & not catch Omicron}, and thereafter there shall be herd immunity, even including the anti vaxxers.