Day by day, more information has emerged regarding the spread of the variant, as well as anecdotal evidence and preliminary data about its risk profile.
The report also cautioned that "the clinical profile of admitted patients could change significantly over the next two weeks, by which time we can draw conclusions about the severity of disease with greater precision."as it suggested omicron is not as severe as initially feared, but he cautioned that more data is needed to fully assess the risk posed by the variant.
. Still, people who have recovered from the virus and received a booster shot will likely have more protection from severe disease, the study showed.
Brooke Knippenberg, 6, receives the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus disease vaccine in Lansdale, Pennsylvania, U.S., December 5, 2021.Last but not least, testing for omicron is a challenge facing health officials who are trying to gauge the spread of the variant as quickly as possible. The WHO noted that current Covid PCR tests continue to detect this variant, largely thanks to a quirk in the variant's genetic structure. "Several labs have indicated that for one widely used PCR test, one of the three target genes is not detected and this test can therefore be used as a marker for this variant, pending sequencing confirmation," the WHO noted.
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