[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SARS-CoV-2_Omicron_variant#Epidemiology,_transmissibility[/url] or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SARS-CoV-2_Omicron_variant#Epidemiology,_transmissibility - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SARS-CoV-2_Omicron_variant#Epidemiology,_transmissibility ; Epidemiology, transmissibilityOn 26 November 2021, the South African https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Institute_for_Communicable_Diseases" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;" title="National Institute for Communicable Diseases - National Institute for Communicable Diseases announced that 30,904 COVID-tests (in one day) detected 2,828 new COVID infections (positive rate 9.2 %). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SARS-CoV-2_Omicron_variant#cite_note-44" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none; - [44] On 3 December 2021, exactly one week later, the NICD announced that 65,990 COVID tests had found 16,055 new infections (5.7 times as many / + 470 % as seven days before; positive rate 24.3 %) and that 72 percent of them were found in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauteng" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;" title="Gauteng - Gauteng . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SARS-CoV-2_Omicron_variant#cite_note-45" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none; - [45] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SARS-CoV-2_Omicron_variant#cite_note-46" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none; - [46] This https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provinces_of_South_Africa" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;" title="Provinces of South Africa - province of South Africa is densely populated (about 850 inhabitants per km²). Gautengs capital https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannesburg" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;" title="Johannesburg - Johannesburg is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megacity#List_of_megacities" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;" title="Megacity - a megacitiy (about 5.5 million inhabitants in the city itself plus 9.5 million in the urban region). In November 2021 the transmissibility of the Omicron variant, as compared to the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SARS-CoV-2_Delta_variant" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;" title="SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant - Delta variant or other variants of the COVID-19 virus, was still uncertain. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SARS-CoV-2_Omicron_variant#cite_note-47" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none; - [47] The virus is likely to be strongly dependent on reinfections. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SARS-CoV-2_Omicron_variant#cite_note-OmicronReinfection-48" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none; - [48] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SARS-CoV-2_Omicron_variant#cite_note-49" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none; - [49] It has been estimated the Omicron variant diverged in late September or early October 2021. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SARS-CoV-2_Omicron_variant#cite_note-50" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none; - [50] Sequencing data suggests that Omicron had became the dominant variant in South Africa by November 2021, the same month where it had been first detected in the country. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SARS-CoV-2_Omicron_variant#cite_note-51" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none; - [51] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SARS-CoV-2_Omicron_variant#cite_note-TG_SAfrica_2Dec-52" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none; - [52] "Phylogeny suggests a recent emergence. Data from South Africa suggests that Omicron has a pronounced growth advantage there. However, this may be due to transmissibility or immune escape related, or both." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SARS-CoV-2_Omicron_variant#cite_note-53" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none; - [53] In the UK, a exponential growth rate of the Omicron associated S-gene target failure (SGTF) cases of 141% per week (a.k.a. a factor of exp(1.41) ~ 4.1 exponential growth per week) was detected. The model was logistic, in comparison to the other currently prevalent variants. The quality of the data is hampered by background SGTF cases from Delta. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SARS-CoV-2_Omicron_variant#cite_note-54" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none; - [54] SGTF data from South Africa indicates a similar growth of 21% per day relative to delta, generating an increased reproduction number by a factor of 2.4 (for a ~ 100%*loge(2.4)/21% ~ 4.2 days presumed identical typical generational interval). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SARS-CoV-2_Omicron_variant#cite_note-55" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none; - [55] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SARS-CoV-2_Omicron_variant#cite_note-56" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none; - [56] Changes in detectable levels of COVID-19 in wastewater samples from South Africa's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauteng" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;" title="Gauteng - Gauteng province were seen as early as 1–7 November (week 44). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SARS-CoV-2_Omicron_variant#cite_note-57" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none; - [57] The https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Institute_for_Communicable_Diseases" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;" title="National Institute for Communicable Diseases - National Institute for Communicable Diseases reports that kids under the age of 2 make up 10% of total hospital admissions in the Omicron epicentre https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tshwane" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;" title="Tshwane - Tshwane in South Africa. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SARS-CoV-2_Omicron_variant#cite_note-58" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none; - [58] DJ Wiki itself may not be "science" it (often) is based on science...all indications are Omicron is "bad"....
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