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#Omicron

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Raywat Deonandan
Raywat Deonandan

“We have data out of the UK that suggests that there may be an intrinsic mildness to Omicron as compared to Delta but it's not by a lot, and the hyper contagiousness of Omicron means that even that mildness probably won't protect the health care system. So that is why we have to curtail transmission as much as we can. A tiny fraction of a large number, is still going to be a very large number.”

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Epidemiologist and Science Communicator specializing in Global Health
24 Dec 2021 6 3
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Rory Challands
Rory Challands

“The number of cases is still breaking records pretty much every day. Omicron does seem to be less severe than the other variants … but as it is so infectious … there is still a chance that the burden on the NHS could be unacceptable.”

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Al Jazeera’s journalist reporting from Liverpool
24 Dec 2021 3 2
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Boris Johnson
Boris Johnson

“Though the time for buying presents is theoretically running out, there is still a wonderful thing you can give your family and the whole country and that is to get that jab, whether it is your first or your second or your booster. Omicron is surging. [And] we all know we must together try to stop the spread of this new variant - we must test ourselves and take extra care when meeting elderly or vulnerable relatives.”

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UK Prime Minister
24 Dec 2021 4 4
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Matthew Oughton
Matthew Oughton

“Unfortunately these measures are very little and I think are highly unlikely to do much at all to stem the tide of infections...and unfortunately with something that transmits as quickly as Omicron you have to move immediately because anything less than that and the transmission of the infection is going to outpace your efforts, it's sad but it's a mathematical fact.”

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Infectious disease specialist at the Jewish General Hospital and an assistant professor at McGill University in Montreal
23 Dec 2021 3 4
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AK Prabhakar
AK Prabhakar

“Omicron was the only fear for markets. Once they know it is not severe, market recovery is likely possible because corporate earnings are going to be very good with crude and commodity prices cooling off. Margin expansion is likely. This correction was an opportunity to buy. The fears of a third wave of COVID-19 have mellowed down, which is positive for markets.”

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Head of research at IDBI Capital
23 Dec 2021 2 3
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Maria Van Kerkhove
Maria Van Kerkhove

“Less than 0.1% each of the sequences uploaded to platforms like GISAID have been Alpha, Beta and Gamma. 96% of the sequences available are still Delta. About 1.6% of sequences that have been shared in recent weeks is Omicron. We definitely see increasing growth rates of Omicron where it's been detected and it's now been reported in more than 106 countries to date. There is a combination of factors that we think are leading to this increasing transmission. First are the mutations that are identified in the Omicron variant and we know something about these mutations because some of these are present in other variants of concern. So, for example, in Omicron there are mutations that allow the virus to adhere to the cell more easily and infect the cell more easily. We also see immune escape where we see increasing rates of reinfection. And then there is some preliminary data that's looking at the efficiency and replication of the Omicron variant in the upper respiratory tract as opposed to the lower respiratory tract in the lungs. So this combination of factors is likely leading to why we are seeing increased growth rates in a number of countries.”

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World Health Organization (WHO) epidemiologist
22 Dec 2021 14 2
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Matthew Binnicker
Matthew Binnicker

“It's important to emphasize that if omicron has a much higher transmission rate compared to delta, the absolute number of people requiring hospitalization might still increase, despite less severe disease in most cases.”

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Director of clinical virology at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota
22 Dec 2021 4 2
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Anthony Fauci
Anthony Fauci

“There are many of these parties that have 30, 40, 50 people in which you do not know the vaccination status of individuals. Those are the kind of functions in the context of Omicron that you do not want to go to.”

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Top US infectious disease expert
22 Dec 2021 3 3
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Soumya Swaminathan
Soumya Swaminathan

“Everybody wants to know about the boosters, when it's needed, how often it's going to be needed and so on. There are many factors that can influence this. One is the type of vaccine. We know that each vaccine has a slightly different performance and longer follow up is telling us the efficacy of the vaccines, particularly in preventing severe disease but also in preventing infection. The other big variable of course is, the variants of the virus that we are seeing. And we've seen that different variants have different abilities to be neutralized by the antibodies, or be able to overcome the immune response, like Omicron seems to be doing because of the mutations it has it seems to be pretty good at evading immune responses. The third factor of course is the biology of the individual, the age of the person, how strong the immune system is, whether there are other underlying illnesses which impact the immune system. And therefore when we make recommendations for a course of vaccination, we have to take into consideration all of these factors. There is some data now to show that there is a slippage in the protection due to the different vaccines at about six months or so, particularly for protection from infection, less so for protection from disease; they are still performing at 80%. But with Omicron again, the initial data coming in obviously showing that Omicron is very successfully able to evade immune responses and therefore needs higher levels of antibodies. For now we believe that boosters may be needed for people who have weaker immune systems, the older individuals, the more vulnerable people and whether a third dose of the vaccine is going to be it, or whether they are going to be need for additional vaccines like influenza every year, every couple of years, it's too early to say and we need to really follow the science on that.”

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World Health Organization’s (WHO) chief scientist
20 Dec 2021 5 3
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Amesh Adalja
Amesh Adalja

“All of us have a date with omicron. If you're going to interact with society, if you're going to have any type of life, omicron will be something you encounter, and the best way you can encounter this is to be fully vaccinated.”

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20 Dec 2021 3 3
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Chris Hipkins
Chris Hipkins

“All of the evidence so far points to Omicron being the most transmissible COVID-19 variant yet. There's no doubt this is disappointing and will upset many holiday plans, but it's important to set these changes out clearly today so they can have time to consider those plans.”

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New Zealand Minister for COVID-19 Response
20 Dec 2021 3 3
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Francis Collins
Francis Collins

“Even if it has a somewhat lower risk of severity, we could be having a million cases a day if we're not really attentive to all of those mitigation strategies. And you know a small fraction of a big number is still a really big number. I don't know that we'll hit that but there are certainly projections that say that could happen with a virus that seems to doubling most places where it's been every two to four days. I know people are tired of this. I'm tired of it too, believe me. But the virus is not tired of us.”

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Outgoing director of the National Institutes of Health
20 Dec 2021 2 3
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Peter Jüni
Peter Jüni

“It's not a recipe against the current tidal wave that Ontario is starting to face already, and other provinces will follow. We invest with the booster so that when we loosen restrictions again … we start to see protections through the boosters. That's the idea. We need interventions to blunt the wave so that we have a bit more time so that … we are able to roll [boosters] out and that they are able to start to develop their effectiveness.”

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Director of Ontario's COVID-19 Science Advisory Table
19 Dec 2021 4 5
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World Health Organization
World Health Organization

“There are still limited data on the clinical severity of Omicron. More data are needed to understand the severity profile and how severity is impacted by vaccination and pre-existing immunity. There are still limited available data, and no peer-reviewed evidence, on vaccine efficacy or effectiveness to date for Omicron.”

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Statement by World Health Organization
18 Dec 2021 3 4
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Sandra Ciesek
Sandra Ciesek

“A booster jab will pump up your protection to 70-75% and it will also reduce your risk of a severe infection but that could also lend you a false sense of security. While it is important to get the unvaccinated vaccinated, first jabs would not be enough to fight off omicron. It takes many weeks for the immune system to develop a defense. The virus moves faster than that.”

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Director of the Institute of Medical Virology at the University Hospital Frankfurt
17 Dec 2021 7 6
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David Dowdy
David Dowdy

“Even if that immunity is not as good against Omicron, it doesn't mean that it's worthless. And that immunity is more effective against serious illness than it is against getting infected at all.”

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Infectious disease epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins
17 Dec 2021 3 3
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Anthony Fauci
Anthony Fauci

“Besides the toll of suffering and death which will inevitably go up if in fact we have that convergence in the winter months of flu and omicron and delta, we could get our hospital systems overwhelmed. With omicron breathing down our back, things could get really bad, particularly for the unvaccinated. The vaccinated and those who are boosted I believe will be relatively well protected, at least against severe disease.”

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Top US infectious disease expert
16 Dec 2021 6 5
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