https://archive.md/jXjn7
"Some Australians are battling their fifth bout of COVID-19 as the Christmas
period fuels another surge of infections and newer sub-variants make it
increasingly difficult to predict the latest wave.
For some, their re-infection is milder, but others are more sick with the virus
than they’ve ever been.
Infectious diseases physician Paul Griffin, who is director at Mater Health in
Brisbane, said the emergence of new, more evasive sub-variants of Omicron,
posed an increased threat to both vaccinated and previously infected people,
sparking an extraordinary rise in reinfections.
“Many people assume they will have less severe infections on successive
re-infection, that’s not necessarily the case,” Griffin said. “We’ve certainly
seen people who have had COVID a few times: they’ve been hospitalised with
their third or fourth or fifth infection and that’s the one that’s turned out
to be more significant and more severe.”
His warning comes as Victoria’s Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton confirmed on
Friday that the state’s latest wave was being driven by multiple
immunity-dodging Omicron offshoots most notably the recombinant strain XBF,
which now makes up almost a third of wastewater detections.
“The genomic outlook is rapidly changing and is difficult to predict with
evidence of newer sub-variants, in particular XBF, outcompeting other
sub-variants over several weeks,” Sutton said. “This has contributed to a rise
in hospitalisations, putting continued demand on the health system.”"
Via Violet Blue’s
Pandemic Roundup: November 21, 2024
https://www.patreon.com/posts/pandemic-roundup-116424102
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
