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It might be jumping the gun to say this variant originated in South Africa. Interesting post from Twitter:
Dr. Geert Vanden Bossche explains how mass vaccination w/ leaky vaccines drives the acceleration of escape mutants:
“What mass vaccination has done, it has, within a short timeframe, generated an excellent breeding ground for these more infectious variants so that now their propagation has exploded as a result of the mass vaccination.”
This one has been done to death.Interesting, true or not?
I suppose it would have been too much to have a variant named after the head dictator in the country from where it emanated.
Mick
Geez, even the software bows to Chinese rule!!Software is used to designate the lineage of the virus not humans deliberately picking a name.
Not sure where you got that info, but I read the following from MSN NewsSoftware is used to designate the lineage of the virus not humans deliberately picking a name.
MickA WHO source confirmed the letters Nu and Xi had been deliberately avoided. Nu had been skipped to avoid confusion with the word “new” and Xi had been ducked to “avoid stigmatising the region”, they said.
Since May, new variants of Sars-COV-2 have been given sequential names from the Greek alphabet under a naming convention devised by an expert committee at the WHO.
The system was chosen to prevent variants becoming known by the names of the places where they were first detected, which can be stigmatising and discriminatory.
Initially, most commentators assumed the B.1.1.529 variant, which was first found in Botswana, would be given the name Nu - the 13th letter of the Greek alphabet - but plays on the word “new” immediately spread across the internet.
Then on Friday evening, after a meeting of the Technical Advisory Group on SARS-CoV-2 Virus Evolution (TAG-VE), the WHO announced that two letters would in fact be skipped and the new variant named Omicron.
The reasoning for avoiding the numeral Xi, which is also the name of the Chinese premier, was not officially spelt out by the WHO in its press statement on the virus but was explained to The Telegraph on inquiry on Friday evening.
Not sure where you got that info,
And perhaps you might actually quote the source of this information rather than just sticking out a name.Centre for Genomic Pathogen Surveillance.
It can be better to cease a diet of tinfoil and ingest something more nutritious.
If you checked the reasons for nomenclature you would have learned that representatives from GISAID, Nextstrain, Pango and additional experts in virological, microbial nomenclature and communication suggested easy-to-pronounce and non-stigmatising terms.And perhaps you might actually quote the source of this information rather than just sticking out a name.
I provided the URL for the source I quoted .
I went looking for the organisation you mentioned, but could not find any reference, not that this means one does not exist.
And here is one from the WHO talking about the collaboratation of naming of variants, but there is no mention of Centre for Genomic Pathogen Surveillance.
I will reinforce my tinfoil hat with some ivermectin horse tablets and move well away from the 5G tower as well.
Mick
I went looking for the organisation you mentioned, but could not find any reference,
Heres your original comment.By using web search "Centre for Genomic Pathogen Surveillance" it took longer to type this post. As to why you were unable to find it I won't hazard to guess.
I supplied two references to where the WHO does the naming.Software is used to designate the lineage of the virus not humans deliberately picking a name.
I want to know where he got his tin hat from:By using web search "Centre for Genomic Pathogen Surveillance" it took longer to type this post. As to why you were unable to find it I won't hazard to guess.
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