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I don't have a lot to say about "Bishop" Tamaki except that the courts largely set the pace and boundaries.
My immediate focus is on the Omicron MIQ worker and the community contacts. Its been reported that there are 67 close contacts, 43 have subsequently tested negative... the real question of the day is "what about the others?".
If Omicron does establish a foothold outside of MIQ, its rate of infection could prompt the government to either up the traffic lights, restrict travel or apply level 3 like conditions to avoid spreading uncontrollably.
There is some "good news" about Omicron (glass half full) though...
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I don't have a lot to say about "Bishop" Tamaki except that the courts largely set the pace and boundaries.
My immediate focus is on the Omicron MIQ worker and the community contacts. Its been reported that there are 67 close contacts, 43 have subsequently tested negative... the real question of the day is "what about the others?".
If Omicron does establish a foothold outside of MIQ, its rate of infection could prompt the government to either up the traffic lights, restrict travel or apply level 3 like conditions to avoid spreading uncontrollably.
There is some "good news" about Omicron (glass half full) though...
it looks like with Omicron that harsh restrictions or even restrictions dont seem to matter it will spread like wildfire no matter what you do. England didnt really bother and the results were what you would expect , meanwhile Scotland locked down again and they were even worse than England for cases spreading out of control, basically all any country can do is get everything ready and expect chaos for a few weeks.
Common sense is not as common as you think.
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I don't have a lot to say about "Bishop" Tamaki except that the courts largely set the pace and boundaries.
My immediate focus is on the Omicron MIQ worker and the community contacts. Its been reported that there are 67 close contacts, 43 have subsequently tested negative... the real question of the day is "what about the others?".
If Omicron does establish a foothold outside of MIQ, its rate of infection could prompt the government to either up the traffic lights, restrict travel or apply level 3 like conditions to avoid spreading uncontrollably.
There is some "good news" about Omicron (glass half full) though...
With the MIQ case, many of the untested candidates were the passengers on the bus - because of the extra contact tracing time to track those down.
Thank goodness we wear masks on buses. And this person might have been commuting too and form work, in which case they probably wore a work issue N95 mask.
Really we can take great comfort from the household contacts. If they are not sick, then extremely likely no one else will be.
A recent Danish study discussed today in 'this week in virology' (youtube titled 'omicron is evasive' episode 854) in this study, the secondary attack rate (term for the rate that one household member, the first case, will infect others) Omicron was basically the same as Delta unvaccinated households.
So when they looked at comparable households, of unvaccinated people, omicron was not more infectious than Delta.
Which strongly indicates that Omicron is not more transmissible than Delta, rather it is far better at immune evasion in a post vaccinated system than Delta.'
I know a lot of real experts, not the ones we see on telly, have a big problem with omicron being called more infectious than Delta, without checking what is its advantage in spread.
Immune escape is looking to be the cause, not greater infectivity.
One the other interesting findings was that three shots was very strong vs Delta in household contact.
So if enough people get boosted we could certainly bump off Delta.
This idea that omicron is not more infectious, rather it is fitter from an evolutionary stand point, would tend to suggest that excellent health measures, wearing masks, works just as well against omicron as it does vs Delta, the problem being, your vaccine wall is much much weaker therefore numbers will be higher anyway.
However, NSW kept cases to 2000 and under for the Delta wave, before they could get the vaccine wall up....so If I can draw a long bow here....perhaps NZ can do the same with omicron...by wearing masks and not loosening restrictions any further than they are now.
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