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Omicron Variant Shares Genetic Code With Common Cold, Researchers Say

According to a team of researchers based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the Omicron variant of COVID-19 appears to share genetic code with the virus responsible for causing the common cold.

This, the researchers say, could explain why Omicron variant seems to spread easily with extremely mild symptoms.

The researchers are from Nference, a data analytics firm that originally found the genetic code and have now written a pre-print study that is currently awaiting peer review.

According to the New York Post, “The mutation could mean the virus transmits more easily, while only causing mild or asymptomatic disease,” per the study.

Omicron variant may have picked up a piece of common-cold virus: experts https://t.co/Wbk8KObTlu pic.twitter.com/4e6c4uBCP2

“By virtue of Omicron adopting this insertion,” said researcher Venky Soundararajan, who co-authored the study, “It is essentially taking a leaf out of the seasonal coronaviruses’ page, which [explains] … how it lives and transmits more efficiently with human beings,” he said, according to the Washington Post.

This seems to corroborate most published experiences with the Omicron variant.

Since the variant was discovered in Africa, virtually all media reports describing those who have contracted it have noted mild symptoms.

The Omicron variant has also tended to infect people who have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19. This was the case in Botswana, where four vaccinated people contracted the virus, in California where one vaccinated person contracted the virus, and in Colorado where a vaccinated person contracted the virus, among other locations. This has led some to refer to the variant as “The Vaccinated Variant.”

Regardless, the Biden White House has stressed vaccination as the only possible answer to the spread of the Omicron variant, and White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain says that Americans should receive a third dose of the controversial COVID-19 vaccines, something popularly referred to as a booster shot, to help stop the mild new variant.

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  1. Reasons why children should not be vaxxed!

    …… Quebec public health organization INSPQ has not reported any “serious cases related to Covid in children under 17 years old, even up to 19 years old.” Further, the “mortality rate [for Covid] on a worldwide scale is extremely low”.

    ….. Children have “innate immunity,” the doctor explained, that is “far more effective than the one in adults,” which explains their “very low mortality rate” of “.0002% which represents one death out of five hundred thousand children”. ….

    ……. “very well documented that the transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 virus responsible for COVID 19 is mainly transmitted from adults to children.” In fact, “[C]hild to adult virus transmission is extremely rare,” …..

    ….. The scientist uses the word “experimental” because the mRNA vaccine is “in phase three of clinical trials”:

    Currently, the third phase of these studies for the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines, as you see, will be completed in October 2022 (for Moderna) and May 2023, respectively.

    Derome states that “[B]ecause this experimental vaccination makes use of messenger RNA,” it is “in fact a kind of gene therapy …..

    …. the data from vaccine studies is unsatisfactory, and what data is available only shows how the mRNA vaccine simply is “not effective in reducing transmission and infection in adolescents or adults”. ……

    ….. Is it useful?
    Is it recommendable?
    Finally, is it even legal or ethical? ….

    https://rairfoundation.com/warning-gene-therapy-in-5-to-11-year-olds-scientist-exposes-the-risks-video/

    A video there
    17 mins 53 secs : subtitled/

    One can read the skim the transcript for more points,

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