OMICRON LATEST - Panic versus Reality

In this podcast, Dr. A will update regarding the real-world data and compare that to some of the fear-based truth-stretching that seems to be happening. Topics such as: Is the US President's recent message realistic? Why did Australia totally change their approach (and to what?) Why are hospitalizations "up" if Omicron is a mild cold-like illness? Are the majority of new cases in vaccinated people, or is that misstated as well? What benefit can native/natural infection give a vaccinated or unvaccinated person? Also see last update:    • OMICRON VARIANT - Why this may be the...   Where is the US in regard to Omicron overtaking Delta: CDC director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said Wednesday (12-22-21). “Omicron Covid-19 variant has quickly overtaken delta as the dominant strain of the virus across the U.S., accounting for 90% of the cases in some parts of the country.” President ‘surprised’? “It didn’t take long at all,” Biden said. “What happened was the omicron virus spread even more rapidly than anybody thought.” (said in reference to the “test shortage”… https://www.washingtonpost.com/politi... Models? https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti... Infectivity difference from past variants https://researchnews.cc/news/10606/HK... HOSPITALIZATION RISK https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articl... ***Faster spread – Relative increase in cases and hospitalization – much lower fatality and disease rates Two Studies Show Much Lower Risk of Hospitalization With Omicron Jason Douglas and Denise Roland - Wall Street Journal Updated December 22, 2021, 4:37 pm EST https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.11... https://www.research.ed.ac.uk/en/publ... DRUGS? https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2021/... DrA YouTube on oral COVID therapies:    • UPDATE: New Oral Covid Pills   FDA – More EUA antibody approvals: https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press... GLOBAL RESPONSE – CHANGES IN THE AIR? So, what is Australia doing? Prime Minister States: Need to continue to calibrate how we respond Not back to lockdowns – turning to common sense and responsibility We will have more variants and we need measures we all can live with Need to move “past heavy hand of government and treat Australians like adults…” Move from culture of mandates to a culture of (personal) responsibility… “That’s how we will live with this virus” ** Can we vaccinate out of the virus? That would take 100% efficacy 100% uptake and no waning of vaccine effect – so no, we cannot vaccinate out of it.    • The Australian Protocol   AUS allowing for a mix of Vaccine immunity and natural immunity. “Permissive Infection”. **How likely is it we will all simply be exposed (short video)?    • Time to prepare for omicron exposure   **Natural infection provides IgA then M and G: Vaccine goes to Ig M and G ** IgA stops future viri in the mucosa (earlier) Contrast to the US response The White House Conference - 12-17-2021: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-r... CDC on Omicron and vaccines: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-... INDUSTRY ON VACCINES: https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/12/2... Real data on vaccine breakthrough cases: Espenhain, et.al. Epidemiological characterisation of the first 785 SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant cases in Denmark, December 2021. Eurosurveillance Volume 26, Issue 50, 16/Dec/2021 https://www.eurosurveillance.org/cont... Vitamin D pre-exposure and severity data: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.11... OTHER LINKS: COVID B and T Cell Immunity:    • COVID Post Infection T and B cell Imm...   Omicron mutations: https://osf.io/f7txy/ Nutrients in COVID: https://dranow.com/nutrients-covid-19/ Post infection immunity versus vaccine immunity: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.11... Vaccinated people and breakthrough infection as well as transmissibility: https://www.nature.com/articles/s4157... Vaccinated and Unvaccinated have similar viral loads: https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/arti...