Omicron, patient 0. “I was hurt by the many gratuitous bad things”
After the initial fear now too the WHO reassures you about the risks you run with Omicron variant, the new strain of the Coronavirus spread in South Africa and then arrived all over the world, Italy including. Michael Ryan, in charge of emergencies for the WHO, seems to have reduced the fear born around this variant. In an interview released to AFP said: “There is no indication that the variant Omicron cause more severe forms of COVID-19 and there are no indications that current vaccines protect against the Omicron variant. We have very effective vaccines that have proven their power against all the variants that have appeared so far in terms of disease severity and hospitalizations and there is no reason to think that it is not the same in this case. “
Who is cured of the variant Omicron and the patient Zero of Italy, the manager of Caserta that came from Africa. “Thanks to vaccines – explains the first Italian infected to Repubblica – I defeated Omicron and now we will be able to resume our lives. I am ready to return to Africa and in January the whole family will move abroad”. The 48-year-old engineer from Caserta, employee of the Eni, since yesterday he is out of the nightmare into which he fell on November 16. There are people who do not understand that there are those who work around the world and are not born and die in the same place. We have read free nasty things in some comments on social media, even from acquaintances“.
Pfizer / BioNTech: “Vaccine covers from Omicron after three doses, new formula in March”
Against Covid-19 developed by Pfizer and BioNTech, it is ‘still effective’ after ‘three doses’ against the Omicron variant of the virus. This was communicated by the two pharmaceutical companies who however announced their intention to finalize an adapted vaccine.
According to studies carried out by the laboratories’ the vaccine is still effective against Covid-19, even against the Omicron variant, if it has been administered three times’, but this variant ‘probably is not’ sufficiently neutralized after two doses’. However, since T cells are unaffected by mutations in the Omicron variant, two doses could still induce protection against serious disease, the companies said.
The two groups said they expect to have a Covid vaccine adapted to the Omicron variant in March, should it be needed to further increase the level and duration of protection. This would imply no change in the capacity to produce four billion doses by 2022, add the pharmaceutical companies.
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