Covid Omicron Fights Delta in a Death Match By Brian Simpson
At present the Covid narrative is into its latest freak-out, as Covid Omicron, straight from the land of the Transformers, rips through populations. It is highly infectious, but numerous studies have shown that it is mild compared to Delta, and most healthy people may not even know that they have it. However, a spin off from this will be natural immunity to covid. That is the last thing the Covid New World Order wants, since Covid has given them so much power through bio-fear.
“Catching the Omicron variant of Covid may also help people fend off Delta, new research suggests.
Academics took blood samples from people struck down with the ultra-infectious variant and measured their antibody levels. They then looked at how well the virus-fighting proteins reacted to both Omicron and Delta.
Lab tests, conducted two weeks after patients joined the study, showed antibody levels spiked 14-fold in response to Omicron.
But there was also a 4.4-fold increase against Delta, according to the findings which took the researchers by surprise.
Other studies delving into the topic of cross-variant immunity showed antibodies made in response to Delta reacted poorly to Omicron.
Professor Alex Sigal, a virologist at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa who led the research, said it suggested Omicron could usher in the endemic phase of the pandemic.
He said: 'The increase in neutralising immunity against Omicron was expected, that is the virus these individuals were infected with.
'However, we also saw that the same people — especially those who were vaccinated — developed enhanced immunity to the Delta variant.'
Professor Sigal added: 'If, as it currently looks like from the South African experience, Omicron is less pathogenic, then this will help push Delta out.'
He said this was because it should 'decrease the likelihood someone infected with Omicron will get re-infected with Delta'.
'If that is true, then the disruption Covid has caused in our lives may become less,' Professor Sigal continued.
An ever-growing body of evidence shows Omicron is milder than its rivals, and less likely to put people who catch it in hospital.
The variant is already dominant in Britain, and has caused cases to hit record levels.
It has also driven a surge in infections in the US, which has seen infections top 500,000 a day — also a record high.
In the new research, Professor Sigal and colleagues analysed blood from 13 patients who had recovered from Omicron. Six were unvaccinated.
And the majority of the volunteers had been hospitalised during their battle with the virus.
Their blood samples were then tested in laboratory experiments against live versions of both the Omicron and Delta variants.
The paper was published as a preprint on MedRxiv, and is yet to be peer-reviewed by other scientists.”
https://www.ahri.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/MEDRXIV-2021-268439v1-Sigal_corr.pdf
“Omicron has been shown to be highly transmissible and have extensive evasion of neutralizing antibody immunity elicited by vaccination and previous SARS-CoV-2 infection. Omicron infections are rapidly expanding worldwide often in the face of high levels of Delta infections. Here we characterized developing immunity to Omicron and investigated whether neutralizing immunity elicited by Omicron also enhances neutralizing immunity of the Delta variant. We enrolled both previously vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals who were infected with SARS-CoV-2 in the Omicron infection wave in South Africa soon after symptom onset. We then measured their ability to neutralize both Omicron and Delta virus at enrollment versus a median of 14 days after enrollment. Neutralization of Omicron increased 14-fold over this time, showing a developing antibody response to the variant. Importantly, there was an enhancement of Delta virus neutralization, which increased 4.4-fold. The increase in Delta variant neutralization in individuals infected with Omicron may result in decreased ability of Delta to re-infect those individuals. Along with emerging data indicating that Omicron, at this time in the pandemic, is less pathogenic than Delta, such an outcome may have positive implications in terms of decreasing the Covid-19 burden of severe disease.”
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