Posted on 12/02/2021 1:38:52 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Colorado health officials on Thursday reported that the third confirmed U.S. case of the COVID-19 omicron variant has been detected in their state.
The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) said in a statement that it has confirmed the first omicron case in Colorado.
"The case was identified in an adult female resident of Arapahoe County who had recently traveled to Southern Africa for tourism," the CDPHE said. "She is experiencing minor symptoms and is isolated and recuperating at home. She had been fully vaccinated and was eligible for the booster vaccine but had not received it yet."
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Its the COMMIECRON variant
No crap. Did they think that ridiculous travel ban was going to stop this?
By the way, has there been even one reported case “Omicron” resulting in anything more than “mild symptoms?”
It’s another XI variant.
There are 47 more states for which the media can breathlessly announce omnicron has been detected.
There was a group of people who contracted it at a business Christmas party in Oslo yet none of them had been to South Africa. Maybe it came from SA, or maybe SA just identified the mutation before anyone else.
“”It was a lively debate,” said one source from inside the Wuhan lab. “Yuhang suggested we just keep following the Greek alphabet and name it Xi. We haven’t heard from him in a few days, come to think of it.””
More than likely true...
So, 3 people have a severe cold. Big f’ing deal!!!
Frankly, I want to get it - because I didn’t have Fauci-19 (to my knowledge), and it should confer immunity to the other strains for a long time. Bring it on.
“There are 47 more states for which the media can breathlessly announce omnicron has been detected.”
Unless we cut off travel to and from the 3 that are confirmed. Then we can wait for another case and in time not be able to travel anywhere in the lower 48. Alaska and Hawaii can be handled like Africa as they are not in the CONUS.
Makes perfect sense as it is consistent with current policies.
wy69
we need a French revolution that should make them “make “ in their pants at the first sounds of the guillotine
So that’s California, Minnesota and Colorado.
Good I don’t have to move yet.
Our county doesn’t test for variants. Our upside in cases was “assumed “ to be the delta variant. Not the Lambdo variant, (even though we have allowed 2 million illegal aliens loose in the USA., without testing).
“whole genome sequencing of the the woman’s test was completed Thursday morning”
Did they do individuals like that with Delta? Usually, or always (as I understood it), they sent a batch of PCR positives to a separate lab and ran the special test there, not attached to individuals.
Is this a different Covidian strategy playing out? If so, guess why.
5 more in New York. MN traveler went to an anime convention (?) at the Javitz center. 55,000 people there. All had to show proof of jab to enter and wear masks.
11,000+ cases in NY state today, highest since January.
Now saying Omicron could be 3x more likely to reinfect those previously infected. Which sorta would throw the whole “new cases” statistics out the window.
I think you are right.
Except perhaps due to contact tracing, they may be sending specific samples out for sequencing at this time due to known exposure to SA or other locales.
See my post above - it may be too late to bother with individual testing and go back to the random batch sampling.
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