Most of the 43 COVID-19 cases caused by the Omicron variant identified in the United States so far were in people who were fully vaccinated, and a third of them had received a booster dose, according to a U.S. report published on Friday.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said that of the 43 cases attributed to Omicron variant, 34 people had been fully vaccinated. Fourteen of them had also received a booster, although five of those cases occurred less than 14 days after the additional shot before full protection kicks in.
While the numbers are very small, they add to growing concerns that current COVID-19 vaccines may offer less protection against the highly transmissible new variant.
Among the Omicron cases, 25 were in people aged 18 to 39 and 14 had traveled internationally. Six people had previously been infected with the coronavirus.
Most of them only had mild symptoms such as coughing, congestion, and fatigue, the report said, and one person was hospitalized for two days. Other symptoms reported less frequently including nausea or vomiting, shortness of breath or difficulty breathing, diarrhea and loss of taste or smell.
The Delta variant still accounts for more than 99% of all U.S. cases. But reports from South Africa show that the Omicron variant is very transmissible.
Even if most cases are mild, a highly transmissible variant could result in enough infections to overwhelm health systems, the CDC cautioned.
Laboratory studies released this week suggest that the Omicron variant will blunt the protective power of two doses of Pfizer (PFE.N) and BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine, although a third dose may restore that protection.
Could Omicron be the ADE variant that censored experts have been warning about?
Is it just a random coincidence that 80% of the confirmed Omicron-COVID cases have been in people who have been "fully" vaccinated against COVID?
I often wonder how this pandemic would have played out if the government would have never stepped in with their lockdowns, mask mandates, censorship, etc.
So many things never made any sense from a rational perspective. Like the curfews: If the goal was to spread people out as much as possible, why would you limit the time they could interact? Why would Walmart close from 10pm-6am and minimize the amount of time that people could shop? Wouldn't it make more sense to allow those who could shop during those hours to do so? Wouldn't that technically be a social-distancing measure?
And what about the masks? Have you ever observed how much people touch their face when they're wearing a mask? Or how disgusting some people's masks look? There's a reason that medical professionals are trained in proper PPE technique in order to limit cross-contamination. Assuming children are using proper PPE protocols when wearing their masks is just silly. A valid argument can be made that masks have caused as much problems as they have solutions.
Hindsight is always 20/20, but I can't help but conclude that there is a competency issue with those calling the shots on how to deal with COVID. Have they been right about anything? I'm not trying to be an armchair quarterback, but I can't really think of anything that the government-elites have done that I can honestly say made a huge difference in the pandemic:
- Mask mandates: Dumb
- Vaccine mandates: Dumb
- Lockdowns: Dumb
- Printing trillions of dollars: Dumb
- Censorship: Dumb
Most pandemics last 2 years, and we're 2 years in and the pandemic is still going strong. How much of that is because the government-elite's intrusion? What would the data look like without any of these implicated measures? Would there be less death? Less hospitalizations? Less economic hardship? Less inflation? Less misinformation?
The US government was involved in making the vaccines, and actually owns part of the patent for the Moderna vaccine. So they certainly have a dog in the fight on the vaccine front, beyond just "caring about your health."
Just because large profits are part of the equation doesn't automatically mean that the vaccines don't work, or aren't effective. The vaccines might be everything they're said to be. They might be the best tool we have to fight COVID. But large profits create motivation, too. Remember when Oxycontin was the new "miracle drug"?
It appears rather obvious to me that Omicron is going to force the need for another vaccine, as we can see the current vaccines aren't very effective. This will generate billions in revenue for Big Pharma. But, in the long run, will it show to have been an effective measure against COVID? Because at the end of the day, pandemics aren't about profits and power. Or, are they?
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