COVID-19 live updates: Vaccines appear less effective against omicron, WHO says

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NEW: Massachusetts officials purchase 2.1 million at-home COVID-19 tests to give for free to 102 towns with the highest percentage of people below the poverty level, Gov. Charlie Baker says.

Philadelphia restaurants will require proof of vaccination beginning on Jan. 3, city officials announced.In this May 18, 2021 file photo a woman receives a COVID-19 vaccine at a clinic in Philadelphia."New cases and hospitalizations are rising, and we must do more to protect our residents," Mayor Jim Kenney tweeted.

Meanwhile, preliminary findings from South Africa suggest omicron may cause less severe illness than delta, and all cases of omicron reported in Europe to date have been mild or asymptomatic. But the WHO said"it remains unclear to what extent omicron may be inherently less virulent" and that"more data are needed to understand the severity profile."People queue up outside St.Thomas's hospital for Covid-19 boosters in London, Dec. 13, 2021.

The diagnostic accuracy of routinely used polymerase chain reaction test and antigen-based rapid diagnostic test assays does not appear to be influenced by omicron. Therapeutic interventions for the management of severe or critical COVID-19 symptoms associated with omicron are also expected to remain effective, according to the WHO.

Ramaphosa is self-isolating in Cape Town and is being monitored by the South African Military Health Service. He has delegated all his responsibilities to Deputy President David Mabuza for the next week, his office said.South African President Cyril Ramaphosa speaks during a state memorial service for Frederik Willem de Klerk, South Africa's last apartheid president and a Nobel laureate, at the Groote Kerk church in Cape Town on Dec. 12, 2021.

 

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It's more mild than the others.. Quit the fear parade.

The flu is contagious too. Always has been, always will be. Viruses are part of life so take good care of yourself and enjoy your life.

We have been dealing with the FLU for hundreds of years this is our FLU season 😂. This may spread fast 💨 but we are hearing from actual people in SA as we have the internet these days 😂. They say it’s mild compared to Delta so we can deal with this on our own easily... idiots

Just wait till there a much more deadly Covid mutation, that spread fast and kills fast.

You mean the one will mild symptoms? the one that is probably the best one to get so far to get good natural immunity because of the mild symptoms? But oh wait you need to push more vaccines

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Wait until we discover the vaccines are not effective against this variant

Darrell Brooks, the black suspect in WI plowing a SUV through a Christmas parade last month killing six people, including a boy, all of whom were white. Given his social media posts calling for violence against white people yet MSM never mention his race or call it a hate crime.

Why Jan 3rd? Is covid on break for the holidays?

They really think this will do it uh? Like we can’t survive without going out to eat lol

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Omicron live updates: South Africa's president tests positive for COVID-19LATEST: South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is receiving treatment for 'mild COVID-19 symptoms' after testing positive for the virus, his office says. It’s a mild variant, media is more concerned than anyone Hydroxychloroquine or ivermectin? It must suck being forced to do this by human resources.
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