The new Covid-19 variant is spreading quickly but most people admitted to hospital have been unvaccinated
It could take between two and four weeks to nail down the facts about Omicron itself, but according to Prof Salim Abdool Karim, “current vaccines’ effectiveness against hospitalisation and disease is likely to remain strong”.
He said that while the issue of vaccines was “the area that has created concern and is behind the global over-reaction”, there is cautious but positive news. While more research is needed on this as well as the variant’s effect on severe disease and transmissibility, “there is much we can extrapolate at this point based on mutations familiar to us from previous variants”.
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