Everyone is under pressure from the Omicron, but it's the strain that fills the hospitals
While the world is following with increasing concern the spread of the Omicron variant from South Africa, the US warns: Hospitals are full of patients in the Delta strain. "It's like a train accident, and the Omicron is another train speeding into it."
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05/12/2021
Sunday, 05 December 2021, 09:30 Updated: 09:55
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In the video: Biden refers to the new Omicron strain (Photo: Reuters)
While the world's hysteria resources are currently being diverted to the Omicron - the new and alarming corona variant that has arrived from South Africa and has already spread around the world, in the field, ie in hospitals, it has not yet been vacated.
A number of hospitals across the U.S. - on the East Coast and Midwest - are reporting a significant increase in the number of patients hospitalized for the Delta strain, amid calls to encourage as many people as possible to be vaccinated with a third booster dose of covid-19 in an effort to stop the rise. .
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U.S. experts have confirmed that there is a rise in morbidity in the U.S., which they attribute to a "perfect storm" created by very cold weather that causes people to spend more time indoors, easing corona restrictions (including the obligation to wear masks in some countries) and expected declines in efficiency Vaccines due to the time that has elapsed since the administration of the second dose to most of the American public.
"It's like watching trailer after trailer crash into each other in a big pile."
Corona Department at New York Public Hospital, November 2020 (Photo: AP, AP)
George Morris, a board member of the Covid-19 Response Center at the Minnesota Health System, likened the Delta strain to a train accident.
"It's like seeing car after car crash into each other in a big pile, and Omicron could be another train speeding towards us. It's just another train speeding straight into this accident."
Many of the patients filling the wards of U.S. hospitals in recent weeks have not been vaccinated
. "Closing borders can buy countries some time, but each country must prepare for an increase in morbidity."
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"It's not going to be good"
The CEO of the modern pharmaceutical company, the maker of one of the vaccines against the Corona virus, said last week that in his estimation, there is no chance that the existing vaccines will be able to maintain the same effectiveness against the new variant. " .
But all the scientists I spoke to said 'This is not going to be good. "
The major concern about the effectiveness of current vaccines due to several major mutation of the virus spike protein, it lays the virus to easily penetrate human cells and human infection. In an interview CEO of modernity network CNBC has estimated that it will take months before the delivery of effective vaccines against Omicron begins.
In contrast, Pfizer CEO Albert Burla sounded more optimistic and referring to the drug that Pfizer is developing to treat covid-19 disease said he is convinced it will be effective against the new strain as well.
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