i missed the meeting where cdc became an unanswerable law enforcement agency
***another update on the “four foreign nationals” - now we have their ages (drip drip), but still no detail as to where they were from!
1 Dec: Business Day, South Africa: Most Omicron cases in Botswana have been asymptomatic, health official says
by PROMIT MUKHERJE AND SIYANBONGA SISHI, REUTERS
A senior Botswana health official said on Tuesday that 16 of the total 19 cases of the Omicron coronavirus variant detected in the country were asymptomatic, and it was “unfair” to treat the country as ground zero of the new vari
Pamela Smith-Lawrence, acting director of health in the ministry of health and wellness, told Reuters in an interview that the majority of the 19 people who were found to be infected with the new Omicron variant had already tested negative.
While 16 people were asymptomatic, the remaining three had “very, very mild” symptoms.
On Friday, Botswana said the country was investigating certain mutations of the coronavirus that were found in four foreign nationals who were in the country on a diplomatic mission...
The four foreign nationals, ***aged between 30 years and 65 years who had come to Botswana on November 7, tested positive on November 11 and on further investigation their samples showed new mutations on November 22, said Smith-Lawrence. She added that the government uploaded the data on the international database the next day.
“Unfortunately ... finger now points to Botswana to say it originated in Botswana, or it is a Botswana variant, which I think is quite unfair and unnecessary at this time,” she said, adding that 14 of the 19 people so far detected with the variant were foreign nationals.
She declined to name the nationalities of the people or from where they had flown...
https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/national/2021-12-01-most-omicron-cases-in-botswana-have-been-asymptomatic-health-official-says/
***low vaxxed numbers, less virus?
24 Nov: SA People: South Africa Asks J&J and Pfizer to Delay as Vaccine Inoculations Slow
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa has asked Johnson & Johnson and Pfizer to delay delivery of COVID-19 vaccines because the country now has too much stock, health ministry officials said, as vaccine hesitancy slows an inoculation campaign.
By Promit Mukherjee
(Reporting by Promit Mukherjee; Additional reporting by Maggie Fick / Reuters and Jenni Baxter / SAPeople; Editing by Josephine Mason and Edmund Blair / Reuters and Jenni Baxter / SAPeople. Sources also include SANews.gov.za)
About 35% of South Africans are fully vaccinated, higher than in most other African nations, but half the government’s year-end target...
Now deliveries have been delayed due to oversupply, making the country an outlier in the continent where most are still starved of vaccines.
Across Africa, vaccination rates are lower than much of the rest of the world, with many countries struggling to secure enough doses. But some countries are now seeing rising supplies while vaccine campaigns are not gathering pace, such as Kenya...
Stavros Nicolaou, a senior executive of Aspen Pharmacare, which is packaging 25 million doses a month of J&J vaccines in South Africa, said most of the vaccines bound for South Africa would now go to the rest of the continent.
Nicolaou, who is also chairman of public health at business lobby Business for South Africa (B4SA), said deliveries would likely be deferred until the first quarter of next year.
Vaccines packaged at Aspen’s plant are part of the African Union’s agreement to buy 220 million doses from J&J...
“There is a fair amount of apathy and hesitancy,” said Shabir Madhi, who led the clinical study for the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine in South Africa...
The Department of Health said a further 51 COVID-19 related fatalities have been reported, bringing the official death toll to 89,635. Only 14 million people (OUT OF 60 MILLION) have been fully vaccinated in South Africa...
Global View
Globally, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said the numbers of weekly COVID-19 cases and deaths have increased for more than a month.
The European region logged an 11% increase in new weekly cases, while other regions reported a decrease or similar incident to the previous week.
The Western Pacific and Americas recorded “relatively” stable case incidence, but both reported a large spike in new weekly deaths, 29% and 19% respectively.
***In contrast, the African and the South-East Asia regions reported a 30% and 19% decrease in new weekly deaths...
https://www.sapeople.com/2021/11/24/south-africa-asks-jj-and-pfizer-to-delay-as-vaccine-inoculations-slow/
I thought Biden’s presidency would be bad. Really bad. And that I was braced for it.
But it’s beyond belief.
Maybe American business travelers need to collectively zero out United and Delta’s revenue for a couple of months. Until they feel the pain, CEOs are not going to shout down the Marxists in their own HR and diversity departments, much less the ones in DC.
Several items:
First - Another indication that Obambi and his minions are really in charge. Obambi ignored federal judges time after time. When a Federal Judge ruled that Obambi’s ban on drilling in Federal areas was unconstitutional, Obambi just ignored the ruling. Several of Obambi’s Cabinet Secretaries simply refused to appear in court. Finally, a judge issued a warrant, so they appeared, and the judge made a point about the ruling. Obambi turned right around and issued a new order. It was exactly the same as the last one.
Second item - the Soviet Union controlled most of the populace by limiting their ability to travel and move about. One needed the correct ‘papers’ to travel on the busses and trains. If you did not have those papers, you could not travel. What the history books fail to mention is that the Soviets did not issue papers to a great many, so they could not travel.
Vaccine ‘papers’???? If they get their way, they will limit us, stating ‘well, the price of gas is so high, you don’t need any stinken papers. Just remain in your little area, and we might feed you if we get around to it.
the CDC is not a federal agency.
This woman has been on a power trip for a while.
I don’t think she has any real power, but she sure has delusions of grandeur.
The female Fauci speaks.
Except, she’s probably taller.