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Epidemiologist Professor Salim Abdool Karim says based on current studies future coronavirus variants could be much weaker than OmicronVariant.

Test tubes labelled"COVID-19 Test Positive" are seen in front of displayed words"OMICRON SARS-COV-2" in this illustration. [File image]

South African clinical trials suggest the Omicron coronavirus variant has a much higher rate of “asymptomatic carriageThe studies – one of which was carried out when Omicron infections were surging in South Africa last month and another which resampled participants around the same time – found a far greater number of people tested positive for the coronavirus but were not showing symptoms compared to previous trials.

“This is in stark contrast to the positivity rate pre-Omicron, which ranged from less than 1% to 2.4%,” the researchers said in a statement. “The Sisonke study included 577 subjects previously vaccinated, with results suggesting a high carriage rate even in those known to be vaccinated,” the researchers said.

 

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Untill your bosses says otherwise

No need for the vaccine ✊✊✊✊✊

Common sense

Then why would Ramaphosa mandate vaccine passports? Did he even see this report?

A very stupid professor

This guy is no different from guys who give betting tips on Betway

Good news...first time Karim speaks something that makes sense about Covid19.

There will no longer be any variant

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