January 8, 2022
OMICRON IS NOT OMEGA:
Cyprus Finds Covid-19 Infections That Combine Delta and Omicron (Georgios Georgiou, January 8, 2022, Bloomberg)
Kostrikis and his team have identified 25 such cases and the statistical analysis shows that the relative frequency of the combined infection is higher among patients hospitalized due to Covid-19 as compared to non-hospitalized patients. The sequences of the 25 deltacron cases were sent to GISAID, the international database that tracks changes in the virus, on Jan. 7."We will see in the future if this strain is more pathological or more contagious or if it will prevail" over delta and omicron, he said. But his personal view is that this strain will also be displaced by the highly contagious omicron variant.
Posted by Orrin Judd at January 8, 2022 5:55 PM