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ER DOCTOR: OMICRON MAY PROVIDE NATURAL IMMUNITY WITH MILD SYMPTOMS

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Dr. Omar Hamada on Dec. 1 said that the Omicron variant of COVID-19 may provide
natural immunity without inducing severe illness, as the symptoms so far
resemble more of a “mild, common cold” in South Africa.

In an interview with NTD’s “Capitol Report,” the emergency room doctor and
former U.S. Army Special Forces lieutenant colonel said that even though “we’re
seeing an uptick in [the] number of people affected, the severity of disease
seems to be, at this point, minimal.”

“If the infectivity is greater, but the virulence or severity is less, this may
be actually something good in terms of getting people immune to it without
necessarily having to depend on a vaccine that’s not incredibly effective,”
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On Dec. 3 the World Health Organization (WHO) said that Omicron has been
detected in 38 countries, up from 23 countries two days prior.

The Omicron variant has also been reported in 11 U.S. states as of Dec. 4,
including 15 cases in vaccinated individuals.

One of the cases in the United States so far was confirmed to have recovered
from COVID-19 and have natural immunity.

Being mRNA-based, both the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines trigger
the body to recognize and attack the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus’s spike
protein.

Because the Omicron variant has “approximately two dozen mutations in that spike
protein,” according to Hamada, the effectiveness of current vaccines against the
new variant remains to be seen.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, chief medical adviser to the Biden administration, stated in
a Friday briefing that it would “take a while” to know “what the impact is going
to be globally and for people who are infected with Omicron.”

“We absolutely have community spread in this country,” Fauci told Bloomberg TV
on Friday. “We don’t know how many of them, but there’s no doubt there’s
community spread.”

While Omicron is spreading rapidly globally, Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky urged reporters to focus on the
Delta variant for the time being during the White House briefing.

“I know that the news is focused on Omicron, but we should remember that 99.9
percent of cases in the country right now are from the Delta variant,” Walensky
said.

Pfizer executive Ralf Rene Reinert said he does not “expect that there will be a
significant drop in effectiveness” of the current vaccine against Omicron, and
emphasized the importance of the booster program, in an interview with Bloomberg
on Dec. 2.

When the Beta and Delta variants emerged, Pfizer had already started working on
new versions of its vaccines only to conclude that the original shot provided
good protection, Reinert told Bloomberg.

Meanwhile, Moderna could have a COVID-19 booster shot targeting the Omicron
variant tested and ready to be submitted for authorization as early as March,
according to the company’s president who spoke to Reuters on Dec. 1.

Tammy Hung

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