The news about Omicron covid variant continues all over the media, and below, you can check out the latest details. Here are the main reasons for which this particular variant comes with mild infections.
There’s great news about successful covid treatments revealed by the Reuters press agency. Check out the latest reports involving ivermectin and a Japan study below.
The reports reveal that Japanese trading and pharmaceutical company Kowa Co Ltd said on Monday anti-parasite drug ivermectin has been found effective for treating the Omicron variant of covid in a Phase III trial.
Someone hopped on Twitter and revealed this:
If the Ivermectin (not the horse wormer) is found to be effective, do those who dismissed its use as false news, and disinformation, have to apologies?? The people banned, for ‘false’ information? Does Joe Rogan get a win on that??
— Chris Eastaughffe (AZ Vac done) (@Chris_E_Qld_Au) January 31, 2022
Main reasons for mild omicron infections
Deseret News notes that the omicron variant is still spreading across the United States. On the other hand, it’s worth noting the fact that there has been a lot of confusion about whether the virus will prevent a mild or severe infection.
The same online publication mentioned above notes that Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the director for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said last week that labeling omicron as “mild” isn’t fair since a “mild” infection doesn’t always mean “mild.”
“Importantly, ‘milder’ does not mean ‘mild.’ And, we cannot look past the strain on our health systems and substantial number of deaths — nearing 2,200 a day as a result of the extremely transmissible omicron variant,” she said, per Fox News.
The same article notes that a person’s severity risk could be dependent on age – this has been happening as hospitalizations were three times higher for those who were older than 50, according to NPR.
There are high levels of immunity from vaccination and previous infection.
“Other key factors for lower disease severity include infection-acquired immunity and potential lower virulence of the omicron variant.”
This is what researchers said in data published recently by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Here’s how CDC notes respond to the question “What is added by this report?”:
Despite Omicron seeing the highest reported numbers of COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations during the pandemic, disease severity indicators, including length of stay, ICU admission, and death, were lower than during previous pandemic peaks.
Stay tuned for more relevant news and also make sure to stay safe.
