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The jury is still out on the origin,if the immune compromised theory bears out the sheer #s of undetected HIV is a huge pool
https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2021-12-02/did-omicron-coronavirus-variant-arise-in-patient-with-uncontrolled-hiv - https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2021-12-02/did-omicron-coronavirus-variant-arise-in-patient-with-uncontrolled-hiv Snips… http://www.sun.ac.za/english/Lists/news/DispForm.aspx?ID=8418 -
http://www.sun.ac.za/english/Lists/news/DispForm.aspx?ID=8418 - Tulio De Oliveira said the emergence of Omicron in a patient unable to clear the virus quickly was “the most plausible” origin story for the world’s newest https://www.who.int/news/item/26-11-2021-classification-of-omicron-(b.1.1.529)-sars-cov-2-variant-of-concern -
De Oliveira has been warning for months that the people mostly likely to spawn such mutations in sub-Saharan Africa are the https://www.avert.org/global-hiv-and-aids-statistics - - factory of variants for the whole world,” he said.
More than 30 of the mutations they saw were in the code for https://www.latimes.com/projects/how-coronavirus-invade-cells-replicates/ -
With Johannesburg at its heart, Gauteng province is the epicenter of South Africa’s HIV epidemic. It is home to roughly 20% of South Africa’s 7.5 million people living with HIV.
“The sheer number of mutations that arose all of a sudden here is really reminiscent of what we’ve seen,” Li said. “If I had to guess, I would say this is likely how Omicron came about.”
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(20)30264-3/fulltext - https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(20)30264-3/fulltext
Global, regional, and national estimates of the population at increased risk of severe COVID-19 due to underlying health conditions in 2020: a modelling study Many graphs covering all global regions. Too much info for snippets
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