Posted on 11/28/2021 8:24:03 AM PST by rktman
The first South African doctor to alert the authorities about patients with the omicron variant has told The Telegraph that the symptoms of the new variant are unusual but mild.
Dr Angelique Coetzee said she was first alerted to the possibility of a new variant when patients in her busy private practice in the capital Pretoria started to come in earlier this month with Covid-19 symptoms that did not make immediate sense.
They included young people of different backgrounds and ethnicities with intense fatigue and a six-year-old child with a very high pulse rate, she said. None suffered from a loss of taste or smell.
“Their symptoms were so different and so mild from those I had treated before,” said Dr Coetzee, a GP for 33 years who chairs the South African Medical Association alongside running her practice.
On November 18, when four family members all tested positive for Covid-19 with complete exhaustion, she informed the country’s vaccine advisory committee.
She said, in total, about two dozen of her patients have tested positive for Covid-19 with symptoms of the new variant. They were mostly healthy men who turned up “feeling so tired”. About half of them were unvaccinated.
“We had one very interesting case, a kid, about six years old, with a temperature and a very high pulse rate, and I wondered if I should admit her. But when I followed up two days later, she was so much better,” Dr Coetzee says.
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Nope.
I am tired, I am weary
I could sleep for a thousand years - Velvet Underground.
The only way to make this worse is to vaccinate against it.
So that’s what the PTB will do.
No, when those flights landed you did not have to be vaccinated to travel to the Netherlands from South Africa.
The airline’s rule was that everyone had to be tested using either rapid antigen test or PCR. These rules were stricter than the Dutch government’s rules and were probably related to connections (some EU countries have different travel requirements). They supposedly didn’t check test results before departure in South Africa, though.
The Dutch government’s rules at the time were that entry was allowed for vaccinated travelers without testing from certain countries and if unvaccinated always with test if arriving from outside the EU.
The Dutch are changing the rules to allow only PCR tests going forward, plus other travel restrictions.
At least in my own experience and that of my family and friends, rapid tests are very inaccurate with a high false negative rate.
Apart from all of this, the key takeaway is that with a positivity rate of over 10%, that means that there is a very high rate of covid in South Africa at the moment without correspondingly high hospitalization or death rates. If 10% of those passengers had covid, then it would not be a stretch to imagine that at least 10% of South Africans have covid at the moment. This is reminiscent of some of the flights from India earlier this year where half the flight tested positive. So a nothing burger, basically, and if they’re just catching this now it’s everywhere now.
When viruses mutate, they can go 1 of 2 directions. They can become more deadly (which is rare, as if you kill your host, you don’t get spread as well), or you can become easier to spread, and LESS lethal. As we’ve already heard about THIS variant, it “spreads much easier!” than previous variants. Which tells you which way this mutation has gone, AND perfectly dovetails with the milder symptoms as well. It COULD BE that this is the variant you want to get to boost your natural immunity.
Also, they’re gonna have to whack this doctor, they can’t have someone out there in public undercutting their plans like that! If they keep up this reporting, they’re gonna have to move on to a DIFFERENT variant from some more remote place! (With fewer TV cameras).
To 99.7% of people COVID is mild
Had it.
Couple weeks little energy. Felt mostly like bad cold.
No sense of smell and taste.
was in bed more than out of bed
Then about a week to snap out of it.
Definitely not worth destroying our economy over.
Social distancing perhaps..sending workers/ students with a fever home.. sure.
Destroying our economy over a glorified cold..no way!
Because, multiple studies have shown that the immunity of COVID survivors is quite robust. They are rarely reinfected.
That’s something to consider. If this mild variant is contagious than we should all want to get infected by it. All the vaccines we’ve taken would be already obsolete
“If you aren’t fully vaccinated, quarantine right away after you’ve been exposed to someone with COVID-19. If you develop symptoms, get tested right away. Otherwise, wait five to seven days.”
so much for the “vaccine” being a vaccine.
And in most instances a person doesn’t know they’ve been exposed to some one with covid19 until after they get symptoms, or maybe the person knows them and contacts them to say so?
because some people show antiboides and never even knew they had it, many people get it and get well in just a few days without much treatment. Our immune systems can handle many things that are unnatural.
Hence the absolute impossibility of contact tracing.
” that means that there is a very high rate of covid in South Africa at the moment “
No it doesn’t mean that. It means there was 10% of a group of people. You can’t honestly say that means a large part of the whole continent or even a country has it just because 10% of a group has it.
But, you CAN assume that and alarm the puplic into frenzy again.
Remember when deliberate cowpox infection was used as a preventive treatment for smallpox at the beginning of the vaccination era? Same idea.
All cold viruses are corona viruses.
You might want to double check your information.
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