I’m starting a separate thread to walk through some examples of sequencing data that suggests that Omicron has been circulating globally for a while. I’ll start with Italy, because that’s where I first noticed this pattern. /1 twitter.com/datadrivenmd/s…
BREAKING: the first-ever leak of "Top Secret" remarks by a Chinese head of state shows how Beijing is behind nearly every aspect of the atrocities in Xinjiang:
Internments / forced labor / birth control & reducing Uyghur population shares / big data policing / boardng schools/1
We are prepared to tackle a variant like Omicron. From studies of the Beta & Delta variants, we established an approach to develop and produce variant versions of our vaccine in ~100 days, if needed, and subject to regulatory approval.
I think there's perhaps been some confusion regarding transmissibility vs immune escape in Omicron. The apparent rapid increase in frequency of Omicron in Gauteng does not mean that Omicron is necessarily more intrinsically transmissible than Delta. 1/15