It’s Back: New Vax Resistant Omicron Covid Variant By Brian Simpson
And so it goes on, and on. There is now a new Covid sub-variant, Omicron BA.5 sub-variant. This one defeats the vaxxes, and apparently natural immunity as well, but that just means, get it and endure it, as was done with Omicron. We have not received much information about how this will pan out, so we speculate. It could well be that this leads to yet another round of Covid-19, maybe even lockdowns, since the authorities know that they just have to say “Covid’ and they can do anything.
“A new strain of Omicron is threatening a new wave of Covid infections as hospitals and healthcare supplies buckle under the weight of rampant flu and other respiratory diseases.
The Omicron BA.5 sub-variant, which was identified in April by South African labs, is rapidly overtaking the BA.2 variant, which caused a Covid case spike in March.
The BA.5 strain has a 'transmission edge' over BA.2 by being spreading more easily but crucially, it also defeats the immunity built up from vaccines and previous Covid infections.
The Sydney Morning Herald reported that 11,000 people in NSW have already had repeat doses of Covid.
Deakin University Chair in Epidemiology Professor Catherine Bennett told Daily Mail Australia this has dashed hopes Covid cases will decline in any rapid fashion.
'The trouble is when we get these new variants it just pushes our cases up again, the background infection rate - whatever that is,' she said.
'The challenge is [that] as we get deeper into winter with flu and other things going on that we're unlikely to see our Omicron infections decline in the way we'd really like to see.
'We're not pushing through a wave and coming out the other side - we are now pushing through back-to-back smaller waves.'
Epidemiologist Margaret Hellard told Channel Nine it was projected that more than 10,000 Australians will die from Covid this year.”
Should I panic Now? How about now?
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