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Tuesday, December 14, 2021

Pfizer Vaccine almost completely ineffective against the Omicron variant.

Data released today from South Africa shows that the Pfizer/BioNTech Vaccine is only 30% effective at best in stopping infection by the Omicron COVID variant which is spreading twice as fast as the Delta variant which was already twice as infective as the earlier COVID strains.

The good news is that the Pfizer vaccine appears to be very effective in preventing serious disease even among the high risk groups.


The bad news is that in South Africa nearly all of the people developing COVID Omicron have had both the two shots of the vaccine but have also previously recovered from COVID in some earlier variant or the original strain.


That means that the 30% level of protection against catching the Omicron variant is the high mark because people in the study not only had been fully vaccinated but had also recovered from another form of COVID and therefore had antibodies from that infection. People who have not previously had COVID before getting the Pfizer vaccine may and almost certainly WILL have a lower than 30% level of protection.


The study doesn’t look at those who got a Pfizer booster shot because that is too recently been given in SA and says nothing about Moderna’s Vaccine because it was not given in any great number to people in SA being an American based company (Cambridge, MA) while Pfizer is more international.


Wednesday, December 1, 2021

Omicron in U.S. first case in fully vaccinated man but only very mild

The first case in the U.S. of the Omicron COVID variant has been reported
in San Francisco - patient Zero just returned from South Africa. (Confirmed at UCSF lab.)

He had mild symptoms and has already fully recovered but is self-isolated.

He had two Moderna vaccine shots but no booster.

Reports from South African hospitals is that 90+% of those
in hospital for COVID were unvaccinated. Most cases are in
younger people and are relatively mild, although some are 
severe enough to require an ER visit. 

The World Health Organization has reported that the Thermo Fisher Scientific
RT-PCR COVID test kits can detect the Omicron variant.

Some unidentified kits used in India are also reported to be effective.

Both of Abbott Labs' tests, the rapid (antigen) and more accurate PCR lab test, are effective because they do not rely on testing for the spike portion of the virus which is the segment that opens up cell walls and lets the virus into cells. The spike structure is the area most often involved in changes for the various variants.
 
So far all we know for certain about the Omicron variant of COVID is that mask-wearing and staying out of crowds is nearly perfect protection for this as well as every other airborne vaccine.

Getting vaccinated will almost certainly provide some protection against any COVID variant.