Omicron spreading between animals

Reverse zoonosis to deer

CDC

Cases and deaths

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_dailycases

New hospital admissions

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#new-hospital-admissions

Current hospital patients

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#hospitalizations

UK official data

https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk

UK Zoe data

https://covid.joinzoe.com/data#levels-over-time

Novavax COVID-19 vaccine Nuvaxovid approved by MHRA

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/novavax-covid-19-vaccine-nuvaxovid-approved-by-mhra

The approval authorises the use of this vaccine in people aged 18 and over for a first and second dose.

Protein based platform (like hep B, shingles)

Can be stored in refrigerator

Efficacy

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2116185

Original variant, 96%

Alpha variant, 86%

Beta, 60%

US and Mexico (n = 30,000), 90.4%

Developing an Omicron-specific version

Third dose now under testing

Mix and match should be good

US, School mask mandates

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/02/08/world/covid-test-vaccine-cases

Gov. Philip D. Murphy, New Jersey

Second week of March, students and school employees, no longer be required to wear masks.

This is not a declaration of victory as much as an acknowledgment that we can responsibly live with this thing
Reverse zoonosis to deer

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/07/health/omicron-deer-staten-island-covid.html

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.02.04.479189v1

Full PDF

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.02.04.479189v1.full.pdf

White-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus)

Highly susceptible to infection by SARS-CoV-2

Multiple reports of widespread spillover from humans to free-living deer

SARS-CoV-2 B.1.1.529 Omicron variant

Staten Island, New York, December 12th 2021 to January 31st 2022

White-tailed deer opportunistically sampled on Staten

19 of the 131 (14.5%) were positive for SARS-CoV-2

P.C.R. testing, n = 68 deer

Seven actively infected at the time of sampling

Specific serum antibodies indicating prior exposure
(? Omicron or previous)

Whole-genome sequencing identified Omicron (n = 4)

Circulating amongst the white-tailed deer on Staten Island

Phylogenetic Omicron sequences clustered closely with sequences recovered from infected humans in New York

Human to deer spillover

Urgent need for comprehensive surveillance of susceptible animal species,

to identify ecological transmission networks

and better assess the potential risks of spillback to humans

Virus may be evolving to adapt to the new host

Infected with earlier variants

Arkansas, Illinois, Kansas, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Virginia

(Deer have appeared asymptomatic when infected with earlier variants)

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