Not concerned about this new variant. Well, except for the unvaccinated but they’ve made their bed at this point.
From my boss….
“When a highly transmissible respiratory virus is found in multiple countries, as Omicron has been found, it is usually everywhere,. Therefore, I think it could be in the Bay Area and it is easy enough to detect since one of our main PCR tests can find it without genomic sequencing so the Bay Area will start looking now.”
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“With a high vaccination rate in the Bay Area keeping people from getting serious disease, hospitalization and death, it is likely that our hospital resources will continue to be protected, but this may not be true in all parts of California (like the Central Valley) and all parts of the US, In some areas that relied on natural immunity, we do know that omicron is associated with a high rate of reinfection, so having had COVID naturally without vaccines may not be as protective.”
