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Tripled Vaxxed 4.5 Times More Likely to Test Positive For Omicron Than Unvaxxed

Not a ‘pandemic of the unvaccinated’.

Published 11 hours ago on 22 December, 2021
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According to figures released by the UK government via the Office for National Statistics, people who are triple vaxxed are 4.5 times more likely to test positive for Omicron than those who are unvaccinated.

The numbers also illustrate how the double-vaccinated are 2.3 times more likely to be infected with Omicron than those who haven’t taken any jabs.

The data, which is summarized by the Daily Sceptic’s Will Jones in this article, bolsters assertions that the Omicron variant is effective at evading vaccines.

“Note that this is the probability of an infection being Omicron given a person is infected, so it doesn’t tell us how likely a person is to test positive in the first place,” writes Jones.

“This means it doesn’t tell us that the vaccines are making things worse overall, only that they are making it much more likely that a vaccinated person is infected with Omicron than another variant. In other words, it is a measure of how well Omicron evades the vaccines compared to Delta. The fact that the triple-vaccinated are much more likely to be infected with Omicron than the double-vaccinated confirms this vaccine evading ability.”

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Jones concludes from the data that, “The current Omicron outbreak is largely an epidemic of the vaccinated and is being driven, not by the unvaccinated, but by those who have been double and triple jabbed.”

The numbers completely demolish claims that the Omicron outbreak is a ‘pandemic of the unvaccinated’.

As Will Jones also documents in this piece, claims that NHS hospitals are being overwhelmed by the unvaccinated aren’t backed by any actual evidence.

Despite this, over the weekend UK Health Secretary blasted unvaccinated people for taking up hospital beds, telling them they “must really think about the damage they are doing to society.”

UK scientists will today present evidence that the Omicron variant is milder than previous strains of COVID-19, something that health experts in South Africa have been saying for weeks.

Well now that’s an underlying tell all!

The cognitive dissonance - it burns!

I don't like to be the devil's advocate but you have to not focus on ONE THING to find truth. The people who most want things to return to normal, and who dont practice any type of prevention but RELY on the vaccine to save them are gonna get Omicron first,
And Delta, and Covid 19. But getting Omicron is like getting a real vaccine shot.

JUST IN - Robert Koch Institute report released today states that 95.58% of the #Omicron cases in Germany are fully vaccinated (28% of those had a "booster"), 4.42% are unvaccinated.

“Pandemic of the unvaccinated.”
View: https://twitter.com/SaavyInvestr/status/1476584065537032193?s=20

Dennis Olson said:

Tripled Vaxxed 4.5 Times More Likely to Test Positive For Omicron Than Unvaxxed

Not a ‘pandemic of the unvaccinated’.

Published 11 hours ago on 22 December, 2021
Paul Joseph Watson
Chesnot via Getty Images/Composite
21 Comments

According to figures released by the UK government via the Office for National Statistics, people who are triple vaxxed are 4.5 times more likely to test positive for Omicron than those who are unvaccinated.

The numbers also illustrate how the double-vaccinated are 2.3 times more likely to be infected with Omicron than those who haven’t taken any jabs.

The data, which is summarized by the Daily Sceptic’s Will Jones in this article, bolsters assertions that the Omicron variant is effective at evading vaccines.

“Note that this is the probability of an infection being Omicron given a person is infected, so it doesn’t tell us how likely a person is to test positive in the first place,” writes Jones.

“This means it doesn’t tell us that the vaccines are making things worse overall, only that they are making it much more likely that a vaccinated person is infected with Omicron than another variant. In other words, it is a measure of how well Omicron evades the vaccines compared to Delta. The fact that the triple-vaccinated are much more likely to be infected with Omicron than the double-vaccinated confirms this vaccine evading ability.”

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Jones concludes from the data that, “The current Omicron outbreak is largely an epidemic of the vaccinated and is being driven, not by the unvaccinated, but by those who have been double and triple jabbed.”

The numbers completely demolish claims that the Omicron outbreak is a ‘pandemic of the unvaccinated’.

As Will Jones also documents in this piece, claims that NHS hospitals are being overwhelmed by the unvaccinated aren’t backed by any actual evidence.

Despite this, over the weekend UK Health Secretary blasted unvaccinated people for taking up hospital beds, telling them they “must really think about the damage they are doing to society.”

UK scientists will today present evidence that the Omicron variant is milder than previous strains of COVID-19, something that health experts in South Africa have been saying for weeks.

Tripled Vaxxed 4.5 Times More Likely to Test Positive For Omicron Than Unvaxxed

Not a 'pandemic of the unvaccinated'.

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Possible proof that their immune system has been compromised?

My DH saw this article open on my laptop and immediately sent me this it; PolitiFact - Article misleads on dangers of omicron variant using UK virus and vaccination data

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stated on December 3, 2021 in a blog post:
“Only the fully vaccinated should fear the new ‘worst ever’ Covid-19 variant; data shows they already account for 4 in every 5 Covid deaths”

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By Madison CzopekDecember 7, 2021
Article misleads on dangers of omicron variant using UK virus and vaccination data
IF YOUR TIME IS SHORT
• A report from the U.K. Health Security Agency indicates that the Pfizer and AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines are each about 90% or more effective at preventing hospitalization and mortality, with medium to high degrees of confidence.
• Without controlling for outside factors, data on U.K. COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and vaccinations appear to indicate that a higher percentage of vaccinated people are contracting COVID-19 and experiencing serious health outcomes compared with unvaccinated people.
• The U.K.’s public health agency has warned people against presenting data in misleading ways that indicate the vaccinated are more at risk for serious health outcomes from COVID-19.
See the sources for this fact-check
An article claiming that the omicron COVID-19 variant will be most dangerous to fully vaccinated people is circulating on social media.
"Only the Fully Vaccinated should fear the New ‘Worst Ever’ Covid-19 Variant; data shows they already account for 4 in every 5 Covid Deaths," reads the headline, which we found screengrabbed and shared on Instagram.
The alarming story was published by The Daily Expose, a U.K.-focused site that has published COVID-19 misinformation before. The article purports to take readers "on a journey" through months of COVID-19 data from the U.K. Health Security Agency.
The blog post lists statistics and percentages about the number of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths, making comparisons between those who are vaccinated and those who are unvaccinated.
According to the article, the data shows, "why, if the rumours are true, the unvaccinated population have absolutely nothing to worry about, but the vaccinated population have everything to fear."
This is inaccurate and misleading. The Health Security Agency, the U.K.’s public health arm, has repeatedly warned against misrepresenting and misinterpreting the available COVID-19 data in this way.
The posts sharing this article were flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.)
There is no evidence that suggests only those who are fully vaccinated should fear the newly discovered omicron variant. Studies show that the available vaccines are safe and effective at preventing severe COVID-19, hospitalization and death.
The Daily Expose cites the Health Security Agency’s Nov. 25 COVID-19 Vaccine Surveillance Report as the source of its data, but it was unclear how the numbers referenced in its article were reached.
The article claims that there were "833,332 recorded Covid-19 cases, 9,094 Covid-19 hospitalisations and 3,700 Covid-19 deaths from October 25th to November 21st."
From there, it proceeds to provide the percentages of those individuals who were unvaccinated vs. those who were vaccinated.
"Of these the unvaccinated accounted for 39% of all cases, 34% of all hospitalisations, and 19% of all deaths," the article reads. "Whilst the vaccinated accounted for 61% of all cases, 66% of all hospitalisations, and 81% of all deaths."
Presumably the percentages were calculated by dividing the number of people in each group who tested positive for COVID-19 by the total number of cases and multiplying the outcome by 100, and then repeating the same process for COVID hospitalizations and deaths.
Calculations aside, presenting the data in this way is misleading, because it fails to account for the U.K.’s high overall vaccination rate and differences between vaccinated and the unvaccinated populations that may skew the numbers.
The Health Security Agency report emphasized that in a number of ways. Early on in the report, the following warning is provided:
"We present data on COVID-19 cases, hospitalisations and deaths by vaccination status. These raw data should not be used to estimate vaccine effectiveness as the data does not take into account inherent biases present such as differences in risk, behaviour and testing in the vaccinated and unvaccinated populations."
In the interpretation section of the report (Page 27), just before the vaccine data breakdown is provided, the agency warns that the "vaccination status of cases, inpatients and deaths should not be used to assess vaccine effectiveness because of differences in risk, behaviour and testing in the vaccinated and unvaccinated population."

joannita said:

My DH saw this article open on my laptop and immediately sent me this it; PolitiFact - Article misleads on dangers of omicron variant using UK virus and vaccination data

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Not knowing him, was it a joke or was he trying to “correct” your thinking?

Profit of Doom said:

Not knowing him, was it a joke or was he trying to “correct” your thinking?

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He was attempting to correct my thinking.................

……fool…….
I have learned that any attempt to “fact-check” something is basically a validation of the supposed disinformation.

There is no test for sars or omicron or any other so called variant.

I'm just lost. It says omicron evades vaccines. In other words, the experimental injections are useless against omicron, and this could be interpreted as the vaxes actually invite omicron. Yet governments and businesses are doubling down on getting vaxed because of omicron. None of this makes sense.

In the meantime it pisses me off a very close relative is losing his job because the employer insists their employees get the shots due to omicron, or lose their job.

This world has gone so crazy, total lack of logic and common sense.

pinkelsteinsmom said:

There is no test for sars or omicron or any other so called variant.

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Thank you, amen, me too, yep, etc.

joannita said:

My DH saw this article open on my laptop and immediately sent me this it; PolitiFact - Article misleads on dangers of omicron variant using UK virus and vaccination data

PolitiFact - Article misleads on dangers of omicron variant using UK virus and vaccination data

An article claiming that the omicron COVID-19 variant will be most dangerous to fully vaccinated people is circulating o

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stated on December 3, 2021 in a blog post:
“Only the fully vaccinated should fear the new ‘worst ever’ Covid-19 variant; data shows they already account for 4 in every 5 Covid deaths”

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By Madison CzopekDecember 7, 2021
Article misleads on dangers of omicron variant using UK virus and vaccination data
IF YOUR TIME IS SHORT
• A report from the U.K. Health Security Agency indicates that the Pfizer and AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines are each about 90% or more effective at preventing hospitalization and mortality, with medium to high degrees of confidence.
• Without controlling for outside factors, data on U.K. COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and vaccinations appear to indicate that a higher percentage of vaccinated people are contracting COVID-19 and experiencing serious health outcomes compared with unvaccinated people.
• The U.K.’s public health agency has warned people against presenting data in misleading ways that indicate the vaccinated are more at risk for serious health outcomes from COVID-19.
See the sources for this fact-check
An article claiming that the omicron COVID-19 variant will be most dangerous to fully vaccinated people is circulating on social media.
"Only the Fully Vaccinated should fear the New ‘Worst Ever’ Covid-19 Variant; data shows they already account for 4 in every 5 Covid Deaths," reads the headline, which we found screengrabbed and shared on Instagram.
The alarming story was published by The Daily Expose, a U.K.-focused site that has published COVID-19 misinformation before. The article purports to take readers "on a journey" through months of COVID-19 data from the U.K. Health Security Agency.
The blog post lists statistics and percentages about the number of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths, making comparisons between those who are vaccinated and those who are unvaccinated.
According to the article, the data shows, "why, if the rumours are true, the unvaccinated population have absolutely nothing to worry about, but the vaccinated population have everything to fear."
This is inaccurate and misleading. The Health Security Agency, the U.K.’s public health arm, has repeatedly warned against misrepresenting and misinterpreting the available COVID-19 data in this way.
The posts sharing this article were flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.)
There is no evidence that suggests only those who are fully vaccinated should fear the newly discovered omicron variant. Studies show that the available vaccines are safe and effective at preventing severe COVID-19, hospitalization and death.
The Daily Expose cites the Health Security Agency’s Nov. 25 COVID-19 Vaccine Surveillance Report as the source of its data, but it was unclear how the numbers referenced in its article were reached.
The article claims that there were "833,332 recorded Covid-19 cases, 9,094 Covid-19 hospitalisations and 3,700 Covid-19 deaths from October 25th to November 21st."
From there, it proceeds to provide the percentages of those individuals who were unvaccinated vs. those who were vaccinated.
"Of these the unvaccinated accounted for 39% of all cases, 34% of all hospitalisations, and 19% of all deaths," the article reads. "Whilst the vaccinated accounted for 61% of all cases, 66% of all hospitalisations, and 81% of all deaths."
Presumably the percentages were calculated by dividing the number of people in each group who tested positive for COVID-19 by the total number of cases and multiplying the outcome by 100, and then repeating the same process for COVID hospitalizations and deaths.
Calculations aside, presenting the data in this way is misleading, because it fails to account for the U.K.’s high overall vaccination rate and differences between vaccinated and the unvaccinated populations that may skew the numbers.
The Health Security Agency report emphasized that in a number of ways. Early on in the report, the following warning is provided:
"We present data on COVID-19 cases, hospitalisations and deaths by vaccination status. These raw data should not be used to estimate vaccine effectiveness as the data does not take into account inherent biases present such as differences in risk, behaviour and testing in the vaccinated and unvaccinated populations."
In the interpretation section of the report (Page 27), just before the vaccine data breakdown is provided, the agency warns that the "vaccination status of cases, inpatients and deaths should not be used to assess vaccine effectiveness because of differences in risk, behaviour and testing in the vaccinated and unvaccinated population."

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db cooper said:

This world has gone so crazy, total lack of logic and common sense.

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Imagine 2022 because you've seen nothing yet.

Yes zombies-walking dead. No critical thinking being done by a zombified population.

db cooper said:

I'm just lost. It says omicron evades vaccines. In other words, the experimental injections are useless against omicron, and this could be interpreted as the vaxes actually invite omicron. Yet governments and businesses are doubling down on getting vaxed because of omicron. None of this makes sense.

In the meantime it pisses me off a very close relative is losing his job because the employer insists their employees get the shots due to omicron, or lose their job.

This world has gone so crazy, total lack of logic and common sense.

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Because SCIENCE!



Didn't ya get the memo?

db cooper said:

I'm just lost. It says omicron evades vaccines. In other words, the experimental injections are useless against omicron, and this could be interpreted as the vaxes actually invite omicron. Yet governments and businesses are doubling down on getting vaxed because of omicron. None of this makes sense.

In the meantime it pisses me off a very close relative is losing his job because the employer insists their employees get the shots due to omicron, or lose their job.

This world has gone so crazy, total lack of logic and common sense.

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Your relative might get the last laugh if he outlasts all the "vaccinated" employees.

Isn't it better to be alive but unemployed, then dropping dead at a job?

You have to compare the percentage of vaxed vs. unvaxed getting sick or dying, not the raw numbers. If 80% of your population is vaxed than a larger number of the vaxed will be getting sick than unvaxed.

Sounds a lot like the ADE Dr. Malone was warning about at the start of the vaxx push.

Xiden's OSHA mandate still looms on the horizon.... fines begin Feb 9th. I still plan on taking that sabbatical... my all too eager to comply employer can go ahead and plan on paying a hefty sign on bonus sometime after Easter!

Things are starting to turn. Facts are starting to come out that don’t fit their narrative and are destroying their plans. They are sticking to their guns. For now.

The podcast with Mcullough and Rogan is eye opening. .gov decided they would vaxx their way out of this and when they made that decision, they abandoned any alternative. Prophylactic care was also left in the dust.

Tptb’s sweater is unraveling. Somebody is pulling on the loose string.

joannita said:

He was attempting to correct my thinking.................

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I wish one of our TB sleuths would track down the raw data.

von Koehler said:

Your relative might get the last laugh if he outlasts all the "vaccinated" employees.

Isn't it better to be alive but unemployed, then dropping dead at a job?

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Yes, oh yes. He's of the age where he'd be one of those getting heart issues with this crap. So you are not too far off in saying he could drop dead. Literally. For what it's worth, Hobby Lobby is the culprit. His second cousin is one of those in charge of this stupidity. This second cousin's mom will not let us go into her home since we are unvaxed. Nothing really lost there.

He has good work ethic, good reputation, and is being hired by a former employer. So he will not be unemployed. For such a young kid he is very knowledgeable about all this.

Dennis Olson said:

The numbers completely demolish claims

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Not if it's never reported.

von Koehler said:

Possible proof that their immune system has been compromised?

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Yep. You hit the nail on the head! By the third Pfizer shot you immunity to everything is about gone! You are just like an AIDS patient. The fourth shot takes out what little is left.

thompson said:

PolitiFact is owned by the Poynter Institute.

Take a look at their Poynter Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Journalism past recipients and you tell me if this is a legitimately unbiased organization. Not in my book, they're not.

Poynter Medal

Since 2015, the Poynter Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Journalism has been awarded by the Poynter Institute. Winners include:

2015: Bob Schieffer, former CBS News anchor and host of Face the Nation
2016: Tom Brokaw, former anchor of NBC Nightly News
2017: Judy Woodruff, anchor and managing editor of PBS NewsHour
2018: Lester Holt, anchor of NBC Nightly News and Dateline NBC
2019: Katie Couric, broadcast journalist, author and media entrepreneur
2020: Chris Wallace, anchor of Fox News Sunday

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Kudos to Marsh for finding this article!

December 30, 2021
The real efficacy rates of the COVID vaccines

By Andy Zhao

The Biden administration and the mainstream media have been pushing a mandate of the experimental COVID vaccines for the American people. Their talking point is that "COVID vaccines are effective and work against the pandemic." That's not true. I have been following the "U.K. vaccine surveillance report" since last September and have seen enough evidence about the real efficacy of the COVID vaccines to show that they're not as good as advertised.

My last essay revealed that more vaccinated people have been using the health care system in U.K. than unvaccinated people. Now I am going to talk about how the MSM and politicians use so-called "rates" to hide the truth and to misrepresent the actual data to further their narratives.

Here is an example of the "unadjusted rates" chart in the U.K. Vaccine Surveillance report, Week 51.




The chart is very easy to read. It shows the rate in each category of events, "COVID-19 cases by vaccination status," "COVID-19 cases presenting to emergency care (within 28 days of a positive specimen) resulting in an overnight inpatient admission by vaccination status," and "COVID-19 deaths (a) within 28 days and (b) within 60 days of positive specimen or with COVID-19 reported on death certificate." Instead of showing actual numbers, which are the "raw data," it calculated the unadjusted rate per 100,000 people in the population, based on the vaccination status. All the rates in each category except the cases show that the vaccinated people are doing better than unvaccinated people.

On the surface, it appears that using that unadjusted rate per 100,000 people seems fair because it compares vaccinated and unvaccinated from the same base number. But that's a deception. Each individual, either vaccinated or unvaccinated, are in different health conditions and live in different environments. An individual may not be infected with COVID in one area, but he could be in the other. That's why "real efficacy rate" should be used, especially for the comparisons of hospitalizations and deaths. The real efficacy rate is calculated based on the number of actual infected people, both vaccinated and unvaccinated. This can measure how many people would be preserved from hospitalization or even death after they were infected by the virus if they had been vaccinated.

Here is an example to show why the unadjusted rate per 100,000 is deceptive if it is used for comparisons. First, let's say in a large metropolitan area the population is 1 million people. There were 10,000 people admitted into hospitals due to COVID infections. The rate would be calculated as 100 per 100,000, or 1%. The second is in a less populous area with a 10,000 population, where 200 people were hospitalized. That is translated to a rate of 2,000 per 100,000, or 2%. So, by comparing those two rates, one would agree that the first rate is two times better than the second, blinded by the fact that 9,800 more people were in the hospitals in the first area!

Next, let's take a look at the summary I created based on the U.K. vaccine surveillance report series. I added two highlighted columns to show what the real efficacy rate of the COVID vaccines are, along with the rates for the unvaccinated. Actually, they look great at first glance!





The real efficacy rate for hospitalization by vaccination status is calculated by the hospital admission number divided by the infection case number. For the Week 51 report, that's 1 - (4,027/268,654) = 0.98501, or 98.501%. That means that the COVID vaccines prevented more than 98 people being hospitalized out of 100 who were infected. The same can be said for the death rate, where only 1 person dies out of 100 people who were infected.

From the chart, we can also see that the unvaccinated were doing better, 99.152% and 99.796%, respectively, for Week 51, when omicron started to be dominant in the U.K. The same is true for Week 47 and Week 45, when the delta variant was dominant.

How can the unvaccinated do better than the vaccinated? In order to show the greatness of the COVID vaccines, they used the unadjusted rate per 100,000 people. There is a footnote under the above chart in the Week 51 report and every other report: "Comparing case rates among vaccinated and unvaccinated populations should not be used to estimate vaccine effectiveness against COVID-19 infection." That is to say that "we deceived, so don't use those rates."

But I and most people are more concerned about the real effectiveness of those COVID vaccines in combatting the COVID pandemic, not artificial rates created for propaganda. By the way, many research reports have pointed out that the efficacy rate of the COVID vaccines is quickly reduced after being administered, even dropping to negative numbers in three months after getting the third shot!

It's therefore time to stop the vaccination mandate and all the nonsense about a "pandemic of the unvaccinated."

This is what American Democracy Looks Like: The 1776 Report (The President's Advisory 1776 Commission) https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.go...nts-Advisory-1776-Commission-Final-Report.pdf

I am on a phone and cannot get the article to copy over. If someone is able to do it, I would be grateful.

joannita said:

I wish one of our TB sleuths would track down the raw data.

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This is the official UK site with published data on deaths and cases:
Coronavirus (COVID-19) - Office for National Statistics

Omicron will soon replace Delta as dominant global variant: Experts (livemint.com)

Omicron will soon replace Delta as dominant global variant: Experts
Experts in Singapore, where 170 new Omicron cases were reported on Wednesday, have warned that the new and supposedly more contagious variant is likely to replace Delta over the coming weeks. (REUTERS)4 min read . Updated: 30 Dec 2021, 08:00 AM ISTPTI
Experts in Singapore, where 170 new Omicron cases were reported on Wednesday, have warned that the new and supposedly more contagious variant is likely to replace Delta over the coming weeks to months.

While Delta is still the most common variant in all continents except Africa, Omicron is spreading very quickly, said Dr Sebastian Maurer-Stroh, executive director of the state-owned Agency for Science, Technology and Research's Bioinformatics Institute here.

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Of the genome submissions sent to the Munich-headquartered Gisaid, a data science initiative that provides the shared genome platform for Covid, the Omicron strain has comprised between 7 per cent and 27 per cent of new submissions over the past month, up until Tuesday. The figures refer to all continents except Africa.

"From current data, it looks like Delta will go down over time relative to Omicron," The Straits Times said quoting Dr Maurer-Stroh, who is part of the global team that maintains Gisaid.
The new variant was first detected in South Africa on November 11, and then in Botswana and Hong Kong, before it rippled across more than 110 countries, as at last weekend.

Omicron is already dominant in Australia, India, Russia, South Africa and the United Kingdom, noted Professor Dale Fisher, a senior consultant at the National University Hospital's Division of Infectious Diseases.

"We are seeing a global transition from Delta to Omicron because with a greater transmissibility, the virus is fitter and has a reproductive advantage," noted Prof Fisher.

But he added a caveat that the reports of Omicron rates may be biased as some countries do little gene sequencing, and those that do may be looking for a deletion in a specific spike gene to identify Omicron, instead of carrying out whole genome sequencing.

Singapore's Ministry of Health (MOH) said on its website that from December 24, Covid-19 cases that tested positive for the so-called S-gene target failure will be categorised as Omicron.
The S-gene encodes the virus's spike protein.

Based on local experience, if a person tests positive for the S-gene target failure, the individual is very likely to have the Omicron variant, said MoH, noting that this practice aligns with those in other countries.

Fisher said most experts in the field believe Omicron will replace Delta as the dominant strain.

A South Africa study suggested that Delta may be displaced because infection with the new variant boosts immunity to the older one, Reuters reported on Tuesday.

While the Delta variant has 13 mutations with nine on the spike protein, Omicron has about 50 mutations not seen together before, and 32 of them are on the spike protein.

Because of its mutations, the Delta variant attaches more effectively to human cell receptors, causing it to be more infective, said Fisher.

But the Omicron variant made health authorities more concerned as the virus is even "stickier" because of its extra mutations, he added.

The rise and fall of new variants over time follows the laws of nature and the survival of the fittest, Fisher noted.

Dr Maurer-Stroh said the environment in which two variants compete will also help determine which is more successful.
"As immunity in the population increases from both vaccination and natural infection, severity goes down but even slightly better escape from the prevalent immune response can give one variant the extra edge over another," he said.

"This is also what we see with different flu variants every year." Dr Maurer-Stroh said, "Because of the great benefit of vaccination including boosters, we see less severe cases."

As Omicron and Delta continue to wrestle for dominance, some have wondered whether it would be possible to be infected with both strains at the same time.

"This is possible but rare. And very quickly, only one variant would be the dominant infection in the body," added Dr Maurer-Stroh.

International evidence indicates that the Omicron variant is likely to be more transmissible, but less severe than the Delta variant.
Meanwhile, local and foreign travellers entering Singapore are each allowed to bring with them a maximum of 20 Covid self-test kits as long as they are approved for use in the country the traveller is arriving from though not authorised for use here.
This has been the case since December 23, the Health Sciences Authority (HSA) told The Straits Times.

The HSA said it had observed an increase in personal imports of Covid self-test kits into Singapore since October.
It had barred the import of some of these test kits, which have not been evaluated for quality or efficacy, as they may be resold locally.

But with the reopening of borders, the HSA said it recognised the need for travellers to bring their own self-test kits to fulfil the necessary testing requirements here.

The HSA has authorised 11 Covid-19 self-test kits for use in Singapore. But members of the public are reminded that the import of self-test kits through parcel post is still not allowed.
Any onward supply by wholesale of self-test kits is also not permitted and will require licences and authorisation from HSA. Those infringing this can be imprisoned for up to two years and/or fined up to SGD50,000, if convicted, according to the report.

This story has been published from a wire agency feed without modifications to the text. Only the headline has been changed.

Dennis Olson said:

Tripled Vaxxed 4.5 Times More Likely to Test Positive For Omicron Than Unvaxxed

Not a ‘pandemic of the unvaccinated’.

Published 11 hours ago on 22 December, 2021
Paul Joseph Watson
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According to figures released by the UK government via the Office for National Statistics, people who are triple vaxxed are 4.5 times more likely to test positive for Omicron than those who are unvaccinated.

The numbers also illustrate how the double-vaccinated are 2.3 times more likely to be infected with Omicron than those who haven’t taken any jabs.

The data, which is summarized by the Daily Sceptic’s Will Jones in this article, bolsters assertions that the Omicron variant is effective at evading vaccines.

“Note that this is the probability of an infection being Omicron given a person is infected, so it doesn’t tell us how likely a person is to test positive in the first place,” writes Jones.

“This means it doesn’t tell us that the vaccines are making things worse overall, only that they are making it much more likely that a vaccinated person is infected with Omicron than another variant. In other words, it is a measure of how well Omicron evades the vaccines compared to Delta. The fact that the triple-vaccinated are much more likely to be infected with Omicron than the double-vaccinated confirms this vaccine evading ability.”

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Jones concludes from the data that, “The current Omicron outbreak is largely an epidemic of the vaccinated and is being driven, not by the unvaccinated, but by those who have been double and triple jabbed.”

The numbers completely demolish claims that the Omicron outbreak is a ‘pandemic of the unvaccinated’.

As Will Jones also documents in this piece, claims that NHS hospitals are being overwhelmed by the unvaccinated aren’t backed by any actual evidence.

Despite this, over the weekend UK Health Secretary blasted unvaccinated people for taking up hospital beds, telling them they “must really think about the damage they are doing to society.”

UK scientists will today present evidence that the Omicron variant is milder than previous strains of COVID-19, something that health experts in South Africa have been saying for weeks.

Tripled Vaxxed 4.5 Times More Likely to Test Positive For Omicron Than Unvaxxed

Not a 'pandemic of the unvaccinated'.

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Meanwhile, a buddy of mine, and his wife, both have omicron and tested positive for it. Both are unvaxed. They got it from their family who WERE vaxed up, though.

How can anyone 'test positive for omicron'? The PCR and rapid tests can't ID squat.

The test sample would require special testing...to tell if Delta, omicron....

Is the seasonal flu, common cold, stomach flu, upper respiratory infections, etc being called omicron now??

My niece, nephew and nephew’s wife all are vaxxed and boosted.
All three of them just had cov in early November.
Niece had it worse; all she ate for four days were pedialyte popsicles. The other two only had the mild type as far as I know.

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My DH saw this article open on my laptop and immediately sent me this it; PolitiFact - Article misleads on dangers of omicron variant using UK virus and vaccination data

PolitiFact - Article misleads on dangers of omicron variant using UK virus and vaccination data

An article claiming that the omicron COVID-19 variant will be most dangerous to fully vaccinated people is circulating o

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Article misleads on dangers of omicron variant using UK virus and vaccination data
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• A report from the U.K. Health Security Agency indicates that the Pfizer and AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines are each about 90% or more effective at preventing hospitalization and mortality, with medium to high degrees of confidence.
• Without controlling for outside factors, data on U.K. COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and vaccinations appear to indicate that a higher percentage of vaccinated people are contracting COVID-19 and experiencing serious health outcomes compared with unvaccinated people.
• The U.K.’s public health agency has warned people against presenting data in misleading ways that indicate the vaccinated are more at risk for serious health outcomes from COVID-19.
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An article claiming that the omicron COVID-19 variant will be most dangerous to fully vaccinated people is circulating on social media.
"Only the Fully Vaccinated should fear the New ‘Worst Ever’ Covid-19 Variant; data shows they already account for 4 in every 5 Covid Deaths," reads the headline, which we found screengrabbed and shared on Instagram.
The alarming story was published by The Daily Expose, a U.K.-focused site that has published COVID-19 misinformation before. The article purports to take readers "on a journey" through months of COVID-19 data from the U.K. Health Security Agency.
The blog post lists statistics and percentages about the number of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths, making comparisons between those who are vaccinated and those who are unvaccinated.
According to the article, the data shows, "why, if the rumours are true, the unvaccinated population have absolutely nothing to worry about, but the vaccinated population have everything to fear."
This is inaccurate and misleading. The Health Security Agency, the U.K.’s public health arm, has repeatedly warned against misrepresenting and misinterpreting the available COVID-19 data in this way.
The posts sharing this article were flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.)
There is no evidence that suggests only those who are fully vaccinated should fear the newly discovered omicron variant. Studies show that the available vaccines are safe and effective at preventing severe COVID-19, hospitalization and death.
The Daily Expose cites the Health Security Agency’s Nov. 25 COVID-19 Vaccine Surveillance Report as the source of its data, but it was unclear how the numbers referenced in its article were reached.
The article claims that there were "833,332 recorded Covid-19 cases, 9,094 Covid-19 hospitalisations and 3,700 Covid-19 deaths from October 25th to November 21st."
From there, it proceeds to provide the percentages of those individuals who were unvaccinated vs. those who were vaccinated.
"Of these the unvaccinated accounted for 39% of all cases, 34% of all hospitalisations, and 19% of all deaths," the article reads. "Whilst the vaccinated accounted for 61% of all cases, 66% of all hospitalisations, and 81% of all deaths."
Presumably the percentages were calculated by dividing the number of people in each group who tested positive for COVID-19 by the total number of cases and multiplying the outcome by 100, and then repeating the same process for COVID hospitalizations and deaths.
Calculations aside, presenting the data in this way is misleading, because it fails to account for the U.K.’s high overall vaccination rate and differences between vaccinated and the unvaccinated populations that may skew the numbers.
The Health Security Agency report emphasized that in a number of ways. Early on in the report, the following warning is provided:
"We present data on COVID-19 cases, hospitalisations and deaths by vaccination status. These raw data should not be used to estimate vaccine effectiveness as the data does not take into account inherent biases present such as differences in risk, behaviour and testing in the vaccinated and unvaccinated populations."
In the interpretation section of the report (Page 27), just before the vaccine data breakdown is provided, the agency warns that the "vaccination status of cases, inpatients and deaths should not be used to assess vaccine effectiveness because of differences in risk, behaviour and testing in the vaccinated and unvaccinated population."

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Hmmm. How else can you tell if a vaccine is working in a population unless you look at vaccination status of cases, inpatients and deaths?

If we see lots of people in the hospital and dead from flu we can correctly ascertain that the seasonal flu shot missed the mark. Why can't we do the same with this vaccine? Oh that's right...we aren't suppose to be able to figure this out ourselves. The hospitals and ERs are full of vaccine injured. And what if these tests are detecting what the vaccine makes? Covid Spike proteins.

Wasn't sure which thread to put this in. Guess this one is as good as any.

Fact: There has never been a coronavirus vaccine that is 100% effective - not the flu, the common cold or any other coronavirus.

Fact: This is NO disease where it's advisable to "wait for the vaccine." Every medical practitioner will tell you to catch it early and TREAT is early.

Fact: There are many medical practioners who have been de-platformed, censured and stripped of their credentials for offering any treatment other than the standard of care from the CDC/WHO.

There has never been a coronavirus vaccine for humans. With some 20 years of research, researchers have tried to make a vaccine to a coronavirus, only to fail miserably when the vaccinated animals and people in the trials died or were severely injured when they were exposed 'to the real thing'. That's always been the problem with coronavirus vaccines. The vaccines looks great..until 'the real thing' comes along to test it. Then Immune Enhancement kicks in. And these Covid-19 'vaccines' are not vaccines.

Unfortunately, this 'standard of care' from the CDC/WHO is WOEFULLY pathetic.

Remedesivir/vent is the gold standard in hospitals in the U.S., yet WHO is recommending hospitalized patients with Covid-19 not get Remdesivir as a treatment...and Remdesivir never passed a single clinical trial presented to the FDA. Too much kidney damage/etc. Yet, Fauci et al got it approved as EUA for Covid-19, blocking any other proven treatments. And vents have always been a risky business...so the two combined has done inconceivable damage/great harm to people. IMO, patients hospitalized with Covid-19 that are given Remdesivir/vent survive in spite of the CDC/Fauci/the hospitals.

Edited to add: That first 500 pages of the Pfizer EUA request for their Covid-19 'vaccine' presented to the FDA is beyond damning. We were flat out lied to.