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Britain plays Russian roulette with Covid – 130,000 symptomatic cases and rising
THE UK Covid app ZOE is reporting 129,970 new symptomatic covid cases in the UK today, as the Omicron variant spirals out of control. More...
Will Omicron break the 120-day Sars-CoV-2 global wave cycle?
Will the new Omicron variant break the 120-day global Sars-Cov-2 wave cycle? More...
Denmark: Omicron patients just as ill as Delta patients
The symptoms in Omicron patients have been the same as in other variants in Denmark. More...
Imperial College: Omicron is NOT milder than Delta
“We find no evidence (for both risk of hospitalisation attendance and symptom status) of Omicron having different severity from Delta, though data on hospitalisations are still very limited… Omicron was associated with a 5.41 fold higher relative risk of reinfection compared with Delta.” More...
Preprint: Evidence for a mouse origin of the Omicron variant
Pre-outbreak Omicron mutations in the spike protein significantly overlap with mutations in mouse-adapted SARS-CoV-2. More...
UK: They partied whilst their citizens died in their thousands
88,376 Covid cases in the UK today – another new pandemic record. More...
Is Delta using Omicron to evade vaccine protection?
A very disturbing development with Delta vaccine breakthrough infections has occurred in Denmark within the last day or so. More...
Preprint: Omicron now binds to mouse ACE2
“Here, we show that the Omicron RBD binds to human ACE2 with enhanced affinity relative to the Wuhan-Hu-1 RBD and acquires binding to mouse ACE2.” More...
Plague Island: highest ever UK Covid case rate, Omicron now dominant in London
Another dismal Covid record has been broken in Britain today. More...