Vaccines are once again key. 🦠 engineering
, a series of new studies are shedding light on the nature of Omicron. Unsurprisingly, the results continue to suggest that vaccination drives are key.Today, the world is much better protected against Covid than it was at the beginning of the pandemic, but Omicron has caused great concern by seemingly bypassing some of the protection provided by natural immunity as well as vaccination drives.
For the study in Denmark, researchers concluded that Omicron is up to 3.7 times more infectious than the Delta variant among fully vaccinated individuals. For unvaccinated people, however, there was no significant difference in the rate of infection between the two variants. In other words, Delta and Omicron may have similar transmissibility, the world's population is simply more protected against Delta.
In late November, over 110 people met at a Christmas party in Oslo, Norway. Though the majority of the guests were fully vaccinated, 70 percent of the partygoers were infected with the Omicron variant due to one individual attending who had returned from South Africa a few days earlier. Researchers
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