What Omicron Means for the Pandemic’s Future | SciShow News
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New variants of SARS-CoV-2 have emerged throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, with the latest one being Omicron. We’re still trying to learn about its effects and what it means for the overall course of the pandemic, but here’s what we know right now.
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Stop promoting vaccines if they don't stop you from getting the virus. Don't be a part of the propaganda.
-Sincerely, a fully vaccinated man.
The virus is already endemic. It was endemic as soon as we learned China did nothing to prevent the spread of the disease months after first identifying it and that was 2 years ago.
I am so jealous! Scishow-telenovela
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Some of the most liberal estimates place patient zero's infection back to August of 2019. However I do think those estimates are too early. If that were true you'd have to then explain how the individuals of the whole world wouldn't notice that people were getting sick and family members dying from a strange illness until official reports of a new virus coming out of China nearly a half year later. I don't think people (as a generalization) are that stupid.
Pushing that back to late October 2019 makes more sense and better lines up with those hush hush reports out of China regarding city wide lockdowns in mid November 2019 that still obviously came too late.
This is literally the ONLY channel that will actually tell you when the information is pre-print and what that means BEFORE delivering it in a way that help people understand why that means the information can and most likely will change in the near future.
Dr. John Campbell does it too sometimes. Great channel too
Why you think it will most likely change just because it’s pre-print?
@@Pakaku9 potholer54 exposed his lies
I’m really glad to see more content about Covid on the channel again. I know it must be so draining and much less rewarding to do almost exclusively Covid related stuff like you did early in the pandemic, but it’s so hard to find scientifically literate reporting about the virus. Thanks and much love!
There are plenty of channels with more up to date and detailed information.
@@destructorzz7197 You haven't figured out how RUclips comment sections work yet? I didn't tag you, so my reply wasn't to you, it was to the original post. And did you really up vote your own comment?
@@destructorzz7197 You just assume that everyone on a comment thread is talking to you? What a self-centered dork.
@@Primalxbeast you must be fun in your own mind.
@@Primalxbeast really? Then share some links
Fun fact, the first scientific paper to include data on SARS-COV-2 (still called nCov19 back then) was about a computer model of coronaviruses trying to predict which mutations make them more likely to jump species and spread among humans. The researchers were just finishing up the paper using data from SARS, MERS, ect. when the outbreak in China became public and the sequence was released, so they just ran the new nCov19 through their program and added it in.
Lots of folks knew a novel coronavirus pandemic was going to happen sooner or later. Sucks that it was sooner. Hopefully next time we'll actually respond better.
Considering that measles had been eradicated from the USA for a few years before enough antivaxxers ruined that I HIGHLY doubt that.
Plus politicians become more and more polarizing, if anything I feel like they'd do WORSE in the next pandemic.
How come so many of you Americans are totally petrified of COVID-19 especially now when we have a very mild variant the alpha variant was quite dangerous yes but oh my Krohn is yes not that thank God
@@volvo145 I don't know what you mean by "terrified". The hospitals in my area are pretty swamped right now. Yeah, omicron seems relatively mild for most people, but the are a LOT of people who are getting it. I'm not scared by it, but I'm taking sensible precautions to reduce risk and do my little bit to reduce the spread. It's basically just a matter of math
As for zoonotic viruses generally... I know the story behind that paper because a former colleague of mine is married to the main author (they met at work). I'm a biologist. "Terror" isn't useful, but these things are very serious threats you should be wary of. Being prepared is a good thing
@@volvo145 We're not afraid. We're just smart enough to know the outcome if it's not handled. Well, some of us anyway. And even if we were afraid, why shouldn't we be? These are humans losing their lives to something that could be avoided in most cases. The number of deaths attributed to Covid should be terrifying. The money spent giving people hospital beds for weeks because they can't do what's right, that should be something to be afraid of. The people surrounding you, so caught up in self righteousness and a "I'm right, you're wrong" mentally, to put not only their kids lives at risk, but your kids as well. What exactly isn't thought provoking about that?
@@volvo145 that is exactly why people shouldn't worry about HIV. It isn't a death sentence anymore, and it can be well controlled with meds. Plus, HIV doesn't kill either, it is AIDS that kills. So go f around with randos without protections, share/reuse needles, or just play with blood from others.
I am so smart. I scare myself by it all the time.
So glad to be able to get valuable and politics free news of the virus. You guys really rock on that front. It's sad though that people will hardly heed these warnings unless literally in the worst of it. Stay safe and strong everybody.
Be careful of what politicians say. I'm no antivaxxer, but I have to admit that you should also be skeptical of the CDC's statements.
Amen!
If you're in America, saying that there's a virus that kills people IS political.
Gosh, don't know how they managed to screw up that hard
@@vzxvzvcxasd7109 It‘s all about education…
I'd be careful with what I considered "politics free" news. Ever since the whole narrative of covid jumping from animal to human was so eagerly broadcasted by science media (including scishow if I'm not mistaken) who then never bothered to address the subject again after more and more clues started pointing elsewhere (towards more 'politically charged' explanations), I've started to take even "scientific" reporting with a grain of salt
My wife and I were watching your video and I have been having some symptoms(the ones mentioned in the video) for few days but I thought it was just my allergies again. Did two rapid tests and they both turned out positive. We went to a special test center and also there the test was positive.
Thanks for the listing of the new symptoms that weren't so common with other variants! It saved many lives, I am sure!
He mentioned earaches! I tested positive (boosted) Jan 7th and I had a mild sore upper throat and fever for two days; the only symptom that continues to come back is ears popping. I also believe it's omicron because the incubation period was just under 3 days.
Ears popping could mean you have excess wax and need to get them syringed at the doctors.
I had ear pain as well. Pretty sure my family and I had omicron because 5 households were exposed to 1 person and we all got it and all within 3 days of exposure
@@samcunningham5912 If the popping persists and there is no pain involved you may need them cleaned out. it happens to me every three to four years. Do not use cotton buds talk to your pharmacist they have lots of different things to help.
A nurse told me to never stick anything bigger than my elbow in my ear 🤣
I do hope everyone is all better too!
Me too!! Im very aware of the symptoms i feel and i hadnt had covid previously. I am fully boostered. I felt and said outloud that my ears hurt and were sensitive to sound for about 9 days.
The first 3 days i believe i had night-sweats too.
it's really cool that nathan explosion found a new career after dethklok
... 🤔
Do anything for Dethklok!!
Absolutely my first thought. Greatness!!!
As the prophecy foretold!
Brutal
Especially in relation to herd immunity, the important thing about the measles vaccine is that it doesn't just prevent disease, it prevents spread. The covid vaccines seemed, at least for a few months after vaccination, to reduce spread of pre-omicron variants by about a factor of 3, but if your basic reproduction number is bigger than 3, that's never going to get you to herd immunity, even if immunity didn't wane and the virus didn't mutate.
Hey, can you folks do one about Long Covid and other post infection syndromes and disabilities? (I came down with Covid on Christmas Day, tomorrow will be 4 weeks exactly and while It would definitely be worse if I hadn't gotten my booster 3 weeks before, I'm still *miserable*...my 02 sats are still regularly in the low 90s...the brain fog is BAD...I've got an assortment of doctors appointments but as a Medicaid patient my continuity of care is crappy and none of my doctor's talk to each other... Anyway, I just want to have a better understanding of what people have been going through & what I'm headed for.)
Aw man, that sucks. I hope you recover soon!
How do you actually know you’d be worse if you hadn’t gotten the booster? How do you know the booster didn’t cause your long Covid issues? Those are questions that are hard to find actual data for.
Pretty sure it's the same condition as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome aka Myalgic Encephalitis which I've got but from a different virus - it's likely an autoimmune condition. I've had significant improvement treating my symptoms with Low Dose Naltrexone (4.5mg per night). Maybe 40% better. I'm now trying Aripiprazole (also low dose, at .25mg per morning) though it's too early to tell how it's working. There have been good early clinical trial results for both, I believe.
Both drugs act similarly on the dopamine system to help regulate the immune system, but only at low doses - normal doses (10x as much or more) have different, on the label effects. I went off LDN for more than a month and started noticing worsening symptoms recently so I took the chance to try LDA a week ago. My next experiment may be whether the two low dose drugs together are helpful or just cancel out the effect by pushing over the low dose threshold on their effects on the dopamine system.
@@Merlincat007 I've had a bunch more medical tests since posting (or, gotten the results, more accurately) and what I've got that's the most unpleasant (aside from the brain fog) is lots of atelectasis, or the small alvioli in my lungs filled with fluid which caused them to collapse. According to my doctor the inside of your alvioli are kind of like double sticky tape and once they collapse it's really hard to get them reinflated. So...it's just going to hurt to breathe for a *while*
@@abunchahooey That just isn't remotely how vaccines work. I'm immune compromised, chronically ill, and disabled. Without that booster there's a very good chance my kids would be orphans now.
Appreciate the very level delivery, this whole thing is stressful enough, it's calming to have a serious topic covered in a considered manner.
I really do appreciate you guys calmly explaining all the literal facts about this variant. I'm so tired of everybody else fear-mongering and starting fights again.
Yeah that's almost as bad as when they can't say omicron properly.
@@Unlucky-Dube "Waaaaaa! Drug companies make effective drugs and people like being alive more than they like money. Waaaaaa! I'm for free markets but the only companies allowed to make money are the ones I say so, like those selling truck nuts and beer! Waaaaa!"
@@slcpunk2740 wait, your vaccine shots weren't free? Unless you meant the governments, makes sense they like having more tax payers alive than dead or severely crippled, and society as undisrupted as possible.
@@Call-me-Al And where did the government get the money from? It wasn't just governments though, even Dolly Parton donated $1M.
@@slcpunk2740 uh, did you miss me saying "tax payers"? And yup, Dolly Parton is an international treasure. I wish I were rich enough to throw more money at this all, too many poorer countries have not been getting access to enough vaccines.
I'm vaccinated and only realized I had omicron after everyone around me started testing positive. I barely had any symptoms.
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Which makes vaccinated people more dangerous honestly. You all can spread the stuff and never even know it
@@OmegaZero1242 shut up
@@OmegaZero1242 The vaccinated are not more dangerous. First of all, they’re less likely to get infected in the first place (which already lowers their chances of spreading the virus). Secondly, there have been numerous studies showing that vaccinated folk are sick for less time and less contagious.
@@OmegaZero1242 the danger is where people don’t mask up. And if you have possibility of exposure you should be vaxed.
I’m vexed and still mask up anywhere outside my home.
2:10 - Just to offer some anecdotal evidence as well, this has happened to a couple of people I'm close to, where they were previously infected with covid-19, and then omicron infected them as well.
Hope they're okay now and you too c:
I applaud you for starting your post with "anecdotal evidence". Too many people think that their personal experience is the same experience as everybody else.
@@50jakecs Exactly. Something that can't get through my mother's skull. She thinks that covid doesn't exist because there are no graves on the field behind our house. She might have serious cognitive desise.
What’s this, an actual decent comment section? I’m actually quite shocked.
Anyways, thanks for covering this, SciShow! I have COVID myself, it’s a tough battle. But I think I’ll be alright.
Woops, sorry. Uhm...
Unfairly loaded question!
Unnecessary politicization!
Reductio absurdum!
Incoherent ragefest!
Zero negative comments on a YT video, let alone on something polarizing? They purging them guaranteed.
@@CapnHolic I mean when they aren't based in logic or facts and spread blatant hate and misinformation they deserve to be purged 🤷♂️
@@CapnHolic most negative/polarizing comments are made by Russian chatbots anyway
Like most people in the comments, I really appreciate you guys providing us unbiased information about the pandemic. As a student, I cannot afford enough time to sift through articles to find correct information so you guys providing correct information (or something as correct as we can get the information as we are still learning about COVID) in video format that I can listen to as I work is really really appreciated. Thank you, SciShow team!
Thank you, as someone with stage 4 COPD correct information is very important 👍
My uncle didn't listen to masking but he did get his vaccines and booster. He is probably level 3 going on 4. He doesn't like to wear his o2 outside but he will when he sleeps. His activity is way down.
2 days ago he was put on the vent in hospital for Covid and the flu.
Please wear your mask, make sure your air gets good circulation and if you have a friend over... no eating or drinking with them. Just talk, both of you please wear your masks.
~Love from another human.
@@cynthiamontgomery1192 you're really living like that??? lmao
@@itsv1p3r Yes.
This was appreciated, SciShow. It needs covered - even more so when too many are denying its very existence.
So it infects the throat instead of the lungs, which explains both why it reaches others more easily and why it is less severe.
There needs to be one that affects the brain, spine and heart.
@@vincentlee7359 I think other variants already kinda do that. I remember seeing something about people who got COVID having permanent heart and lung issues, idk about brain issues though.
@@peggedyourdad9560 Oh What I mean is I want and hope there will be a future variant that affects the brain, spine and heart in a severe negative way.
@@vincentlee7359 If you look at the Long COVID (aka PASC) literature, or do a basic google query, it's been documented from the beginning that any variant has the potential to infect neural and/or cardiac and/or endothelial tissue leading to long term damage. Many people are having terrible chronic symptoms post-infection
@@seanglaze7284 I think I should rephrase, I just want a variant of this virus so become very severe and lethal. Like if you contract this, you have less than a month to live or something.
Even being vacc'ed and boosted I'm worried since I tested positive. My condition has declined but I'm hopeful it doesn't get worse. Stay safe everyone! We need some Muscle Hank on the job.
I hope you get well soon.
@@Naygen thanks Naygen.
Ive caught it too! Hadnt had the time yet to get boosted tho.. not feeling that bad at the moment. How are you doing half a day later?
@@AnaisAzuli I hope it stays that way! Today the aches and fatigue are strong. I don't have a fever or cough so hopefully it stays that way
🙄 You will almost certainly be fine... All the horror stories you hear are in the unvaxxed. Am I literally the only person who trusts this damn vaccine to protect me from severe COVID? It honestly feels like it judging by the number obeying the mask mandate and wearing N95s... I bet every time I go into a store maskless I'm the only boosted person doing it everyone else maskless is probably unvaxxed
I've been waiting for an episode about this, thanks for all you guys do!
Hey wonderful SciShow!
Could you include the desciptive statistics (OR, HR, RR) and confidence intervals in these brilliant presentations of the data.
It'll be a nice way to teach people about how scientists read the studies and could help people be more critical of the information they're exposed to.
Great work as always, stay safe
There are other very important factors that you should mention. First, though sometimes viruses shift to more virulent less deadly variants, that is not always true. What is true is that the successful variants succeed, and that doesn’t mean less deadly necessarily. Second, though this virus has some repair mechanisms it still mutates wildly. There have already been proposals to name almost 100 subvariants of omicron. Those proposals were rejected. They do reflect the huge variation in Omicron strains. Third, the BA.2 strain now dominant in Denmark is quite different from the wildely circulating BA.1 strains and may well end up forming a back to back wave with BA.1. Fourth, SARS-CoV-2 has moved into other species. One variant moved into mice (anthroponoses) and then returned to humans (zoonoses). That is Omicron. And the omicron strains can and do infect rodents. Delta and previous strains have moved into weasels, mink and other mustelids. They also moved into deer and other ungulates. Cows, sheep, goats and horses are ungulates. SARS-CoV-2 is widespread in deer. They also moved into cats and related felines. All of these represent problems of their own. And they all are reservoirs that may and likely will reseed variants into the human population. SARS-CoV-2 is not going away. And other more deadly versions may arise at any time from other animals. We missed our opportunity to end the pandemic early in 2020. It will now be with us for the long haul. Fifth, omicron invades cells through a different mechanism from delta. It is because of this that upper respiratory infection symptoms are more prevalent. That may be giving the immune system several days head start in building antibodies before lung involvement sets in, reducing the severity of the lung issues; which have been the major killer. But clotting issues appear to be more important as evidenced by greater impacts to children. Also, the spread of the disease is rapid (R0 likely over 100 with no protection in a naive population), and the time to symptoms is shorter, combined with a longer time to death (~3 weeks). Humans are impatient. And as a result this led to a mistaken assessment that the disease is much less severe (mild). It is still severe. Sixth, South Africa reports data as it arrives and -back posts- data to when it occurred. As a result, the incidence and death curves rose after people mostly quit paying attention to them, wrongly assessing the severity based on the early data. Seventh, the clotting issues that the disease causes are severe when they occur. Eighth, though the vaccines are ill targeted to this variant, and they do not adequately prevent disease, they do greatly reduce its severity. And that too leads to a miss impression about the severity of these variants. Ninth, human immunity to RNA viruses wanes quickly - by design. This is because our bodies choose to forget rapidly mutating virus strains in favor of building new immunity to conserve precious energy and resources. Defenses against things that no longer exist isn’t much use and it is a large burden. Because of this we will require frequently updated vaccines and we will probably need new shots every three to four months. Tenth, this is nothing like the flu. The flu each year starts when birds carrying new variants migrate south spreading these through the air. It’s spread is aided by our moving indoors. SARS-CoV-2 is a much more transmissible virus spread human to human. And it is far more dangerous and deadly than all but severe pandemic flus. And much more …
Also, if we assume 2 variants identical in infectivity but one is more severe, the more severe one will eventually die out due to the fact that more people unable to leave their bed means less people are available to contact healthy people and transmit it. So a variant would need a significant boost in infectivity to make up for an increase in severity
You said "We missed our opportunity to end the pandemic early in 2020. It will now be with us for the long haul." How did we miss that opportunity? What could have been done differently?
@Kulture City stop advertising your content
I want you to know you have Dunning-Kruger effect.
This was so informative. Thanks
Covid took my aunt in 3 weeks last month. We're not through this yet. Stay safe out there, stranger. 🖤
I’ve recently come out of isolation after contracting COVID.
Day 1 and 2, I was feeling very rundown.
Subsequently I had an extremely mild head cold.
I had nearly the exact same reaction to it, fully vaccinated and boosted.
Sounds like you got "normal" sick.
I'm sure you'll be fine
Same here - and even during those first couple days, I can safely say the second dose of Moderna hit me harder (so much so that at first I thought the muscle aches were from a good workout as opposed to the previous "I have been hit by a loaded semi and I KNOW I did nothing to cause that").
As an introvert I enjoyed the lockdown and have never had covid
Lol me two. Other than having to wear a mask when I buy groceries, the last two years have been just like the last two decades.
As an introvert, I quite enjoyed the lockdown, too. I went back to work, as required, after the first go and caught Covid within the month. 'nuffzed.
I'm also introverted, and to be honest I feel stronger mentally now that previously. Being able to let my introversion dominate has been a real tonic. I am lucky though, I'm retired and get my groceries delivered, so I've no need to leave home.
honestly i am still always confused why people are like omg all these covid issues, im like ... what issues? nothing in my life has changed since covid started aside from i havnt been sick with aynthing and wearing a mask so iuo
Hey SciShow, it would be interesting to see the evolution in how both canines and felines developed the means of picking their cubs up by the neck to transport them elsewhere.
Canines and felines have a common ancestor.
@@kellydalstok8900 likely explanation, though I couldn't find anything on it, all why they do so and why not to do it in Adult animals.
@Claire Fox
Its the most likely one as its distinct among small and medium size mammals not just dogs and cats, so its something that had to have evolved early on.
@@kellydalstok8900 ahh yes I remember
They don’t have hands, there you go.
I got (presumably) omicron 7 days ago. Was quite sick for 3 days with common flu symptoms, but god damn it gave me the WORST sore throat i've ever had. Couldn't eat or drink at all.
I put this video on to listen to while doing other stuff.
Right near the end, I look up to pause it before closing it.
And oh my lord your hair is fabulous
My biggest fear tbh is that we achieve an immunity level where covid isn't deadly at all anymore to anyone, but you still get long covid regardless. Like you get a little sick, don't get hospitalized, but are still inflicted with long covid for the rest of your life.
I think long covid is more likely if you had more severe symptoms when sick. Not sure if that has changed though.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but from what I understand long Covid only lasts for a few weeks or months after the virus. Still far from ideal, but it won't last "the rest of your life".
Yeah, that has been one of my concerns too. It may replicate more in the upper airways and bronchioles, but it has been hitting so many systems and triggering different responses in children. Multisystem inflammatory syndrome MIS-C, Respiratory syncytial virus, and Croup. We may find out that Covid is not the only one that causes long-term issues. It's just that we have been overlooking them.
We know that strep throat left untreated is likely to cause vegetative heart valve issues. That has been known for 30+ years.
Interesting times we live in.
@@BeatleFloydZeppelin I had it a year ago, and I'm still with symptoms (mostly I feel fatigued with movement and my heart rate speeds up every time I stand up). It's definitively milder than before though, but still affects my quality of life significantly.
My case was mild btw
i cant get over the hair
he went from punk rock to heavy metal
Oh dang, I didn't know Michael was growing his hair out! I haven't actually watched a video in a long time... I usually just listen to them. Thanks for the updates!
Michael: I'm going to tell you some science, BUT I'M GOING TO DO IT FABULOUSLY
Keep up the good hair. Work... I mean work.
A very cool study my Biotechnologist husband read the other week:
Looks like the Omicron variant has 7 spike protein mutations. Which is like... insane. Normally mutations happen maybe 1 or 2 at a time, and aren't always more helpful, but like. all 7 of them or something seem to increase its ability to hook on to our cells and make it easier for us to get it.
I'm not a scientist, he is, and I'm possibly getting it a bit simplified/incorrect. I just think it was cool, if exhausting, to learn via his TL;DR.
ask your friend about "CTCCTCGGCGGGCACGTAG" (verbatim).
@@Unlucky-Dube *cough* just evolution *cough*
@@Unlucky-Dube Nobel prize is like Victors. 4 people vs. majority of the scientific body where ideas actually have to go through scrutiny and withstand opposing evidence.
Yeah, that's because the Omicron variant had billions of hosts to mutate in each month, and the number of viruses in each host is huge as well. That's a lot of room to make attempts. Some of those attempts were bound to be succesful.
The truly strange thing about Omicron is that it's evidently much more closely related to Alpha than to any other more recent variant.
I love that you included the Danish report, although it isn't peer reviewed yet. Believe it or not, but when the Danes found out that they were researching the effects of all the testing, they bashed the researchers for only doing it now (aka, they wanted research to be done before the data had been collected) and the vast majority of all commenters said that they just wanted all the testing to stop, despite the tests never having costed anything here in Denmark. You just schedule a time and meet up for a PCR test that by now takes 5 seconds and you're off again. The commenters still thought that to be annoying and I'm still absolutely dumbfounded how taking a mere 5 seconds out of your day to remain secure and safe, is too much to ask for. Especially when we still don't know whether this virus will mutate into something far deadlier, whilst also being far more contagious. I'll be saving this video to send to those Danes who still can't see the purpose with testing. Science isn't trying to scare anyone into thinking they're gonna die. That's the media. Science just tries to warn people and plead them to follow simple rules, as we won't get out of this mess faster, by allowing the virus to spread quicker by ignoring all guidelines.
Had to rewind a bit because I missed important information because I was too busy admiring Michael's gorgeous hair. Thank you for the information, and great hair!
Fantastic... It's videos like this that keep me subscribed. Thank you for your hard work.
One of the best videos I have seen on this subject. Seems more objective than anything Ive seen to date. I know its a lot to ask but can you do one on the origins of Covid 19?
The origins are still being debated with some scientists claiming natural origins and others claiming it was an accidental leak from a Wuhan facility, both have their inconsistencies.
I love this channel for that exact reason. Nothing but cold hard science on this channel and disclaimers when something isn't 100% proven.
Covid went through my household this last week. I got it the worst out of everybody. The fever that came with it made my psych meds less effective. So while I was sick, I also got to think that my walls had eyes and were watching me. But that cats protected against the eyes. So my cat Aster purring next to me made me feel safe. Fun times. I felt completely awful last Thursday. Like I got hit in the face with the flu. Body aches and headache and earache and eyes hurt and cough and overall awful. A week later I mostly just have lingering sniffles. My middle child also got a fever. She felt bad a couple days before recovering. My eldest child felt slightly under the weather for a day. My husband was positive but asymptomatic. And my youngest child didn't seem sick at all either. I'm thankful that we're recovering well. I really tried to avoid covid since I have some pre-existing conditions and was worried how it would effect me. I did have a j&j vaccine. But haven't been able to figure out where to get a booster. Otherwise I'd of gotten the booster as well. I'm also in my mid 30's. Severe asthma, psychiatric illness and a bit on the chubby side after getting on new psych meds. I have been taking vitimin D. If I hadn't misplaced my zinc, I'd of been taking that too.
Have a good further recovery! At least you got a good amount of protection now. Maybe wait off for the booster? So it can actually boost again when you need additional protection?
Anyways stay safe and healthy! All the best to you and your family
Love to see this after my work just stopped paying people who get sick, so now we have to decide if we want to be paid and hurt those we work with or go without pay
My employer stopped Covid emergency paid leave back in June. It’s coming back to bite them now because people are going to work sick.
Greedy employers
You reap the neoliberalism you sowed. Capitalism is the worst pre-existing condition.
Everyone in my brother's home tested positive for Omicron and they are all fully vaccinated and had boosters where appropriate. The symptoms were minor/mild to really rough and requiring some medical intervention. Most certainly the worst of the family would have required hospitalization without having the vaccine, based off how bad they got with the vaccine onboard.
Edit: They all had Moderna vaccines.
The jabs are useless.
@@doctordetroit4339 No they are not. This is according to all the currently available data
@@doctordetroit4339 you are
@@Unlucky-Dube i especially like all the sources you put for these claims
@@Unlucky-Dube Do you have evidence for any of the things you are saying? If not then go do your research
Because I’m arduously following developments in Covid-19, I know that this video is already out of date. It’s not that Omicron “may” become dominant, it has already reached 99% of infections in many countries. Also, the short incubation period and high transmission means that contact tracing has become a wild goose chase. Where I live, we have been advised to assume that everybody we meet is carrying Omicron and to act accordingly. And there are now good Public Health data clearly showing the benefits of three doses of vaccine. So get your shots, keep on masking, keep social distancing and live your life.
Yep, had my third shot and my only symptoms were a headache day one, running nose and a slight cough went away after about 3 days.
Not to mention a slight loss of taste that subsided after day one of symptom
Booster 12/06. 12/27 I was at a busy restaurant for lunch. 12/28 after a nap after a 2 hour dentist visit, I woke up with a sore throat. Had to wait for an available test and tested positive 1/05. Tested negative 01/15, still having lingering symptoms.
Lol boosters forever and ever
Just shows the hard part of giving public health info in a pandemic, as you say somthing it almost always goes out of date immediately.
This is old news. But thanks for posting, in case people didn't know. Omicron already has taken over as the dominant strain in most countries.
Thanks for the info! Love the hair Michael Aranda.
In the next zombie movie there better be people running towards the zombies yelling they're not real
You should do a video on how covid is different from other viruses like the flu or cold it's a very common argument I hear and I'm still confused about it myself
@@Unlucky-Dube lol, good one
I think some people experience flu and or cold like symptoms. And other people dont. Thats why some say it.
@@Unlucky-Dube you are of the deep end, aren't you? Why does everything have to be a conspiracy?
@@Unlucky-Dube Maybe isn't man-made, but it was possible for it to spread because of their facility's activities. Maybe if that facility wasn't doing what it was doing, it wouldn't have spread.(No, not that they made the weapon and spread it, but that the bat or whatever it was had it and they came into contact with it under the right conditions.)
But if it's China and China are maybe working on a bioweapon they hope can target specific ethnicities, it wouldn't be surprising if they also made the original product and spread it intentionally or unintentionally. Even if you make a bioweapon, you don't necessarily just want it flung out into the world.
@@foxwagen9865 Because conspiracies exist in plenty. People conspire, only you are making it some weird deal that it doesn't exist. It may even be to a friend, they call them "white lies".
People conspire. It is what it is.
Is anyone capable of human thought on the deep end or are you the one on the deep end. Humans would totally not conspire, humans are too nice. Arrogance.
I know 17 people including my husband and myself who have it right now. None of us have been in contact at all either. Omicron is just spreading like wildfire everywhere. We've been comparing symptoms via text and everyone is different. I'm nearly asymptomatic but my friend in Nevada feels like he has full blown pneumonia. We're all vaccinated so at least we'll all survive.
You and your husband have not been in contact? Ok. Lol
Also, if true, he's in a miserable marriage.
@@chrismitchell7494 😂😂 It does read like that's what I meant.
@@whoopsydaisy6389 yes, laugh at your failure of a marriage. Please, show him this comment section. I wonder how long he'll tolerate you.
Yeah, shame all those unvaccinated are definitely going to die once they catch covid.
Yikes.
Thanks for the update
This was super informative, thanks for the summary!
Remember the beginning of the pandemic when scishow predicted erroneously that the novel coronavirus wouldn’t amount to much and we shouldn’t be too concerned about it?
As a Society, we NEED MOAR Neutral Scientific Reporting from places like this. Any chance you could cut thru all the BS on controversial topics like #NaturalImmunity, et. al.?
Yet SciShow won't say pregnant women in their videos they say "pregnant people"
@@The3nd187 What’s wrong with saying pregnant people, women are people, and if you say only women can be pregnant, then why would they need to clarify?
@@The3nd187 Yes, how dare they be inclusive to people of all gender identities, without changing the factual content of what they say, while talking about those who are pregnant.
@@The3nd187 That's what you took from this video? I think your priorities are a little screwy.
@@The3nd187 sounds like somebody doesn’t know the scienceeee
You’re video is a real breath of fresh air! Awesome stuff!
This explains why I got sick twice in the same month after testing positive. The symptoms weren't unbearable, but definitely a hindrance. And after I was getting better, they came back after less than 2 weeks!
This pandemic was such a great opportunity to popularize epidemiology and medicine in general, but we blew it by politicizing it.
The future of our specie hang in balance due to our hubris and ignorance.
Me sitting and trying not to go nuts, while sick with Omicron Covid (well, covid. I assume omicron but I guess it could be delta?)
FULLY vaxxed, all of us, with boosters etc.
I'm at least 5 days in, and not getting better. 🤞🤞🤞🤞
Was part of early infection 2 years ago. This is STILL confusing as crud!!🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️
Not confusing, you were gullible and believed in the jabs.
You had plenty of company. I know at least 15 people who foolishly believed we developed a vaccine for CV in a year after failing for the past 40 years. It can't be done. Not now not ever.
We in medicine knew this.
Next time view Pharma as a bankster and you will choose better.
I have natural immunity from prior infection and strut around like a peacock.
That's because the vax (especially boosters) don't do squat. You might as well as shot yourself with water. Covid isn't new. It's just being presented that way.
Found the sheep in the comments here 🤣🤣🐑🐑
@@FallenAngelHiroko GOOD GRIEF?!? YOU TOO???!😱🤬🤬🤬🤬
BUGGER OFF!
The vaccine is protective, but it is not providing sterilizing immunity, you can still catch it due to a lot of factors like the strength of your own immune system, how big your viral load was, etc.
Also, omicron has some degree of immune escape
Basically you got unlucky.
However, the data seems to be showing that being boosted still has a 70% reduction in getting omicron period. It's just that it's so infectious It seems to be hitting absolutely everyone
Fully have accepted the fact the virus will ruin my entire college years, late teens - early 20’s in general
I graduated high school in 2020. My prom was cancelled, senior trip to Bermuda as well, and my graduation was through a zoom slideshow. We were supposed to be the great class of 2020. And when CO’21 got to have an in person graduation, prom it felt like people forgot about us real quick
My freshman year of college was complete ass. All classes were online, no freshman activities. Met not a single person
I envy the people who graduated high school one year before and after me. Cause at least they got the whole experience. The choice of enrolling me in school just a few months earlier/later all those years ago could’ve made a huge difference
Honestly drop out and go into a trade, College won't get better any time soon because it's run by zero COVID radicals. Another option is to transfer to a university in a state like Florida or Tennessee you know where they have BANNED mandates and lockdowns
Let's never stop social distancing! My introvertness being normal behavior is great 😃! Just the fact that I have only been forced to partake in just 5 non- family hugs for two years is so awesome!!!
Thank you for mentioning Long COVID. We're in the middle of the biggest disabling event in modern history, and few are talking about it. I hope to see more about this in the coming months.
Biggest disabling event in history? It’s not bloody leprosy or thalidomide.
This. I have only some mild problems left now more than a year since the positive PCR test. But I know people who are basically bed-bound still after the same passage of time. It doesn't cause lingering problems for everyone but the potential is always there, even in mild infections.
Recent. I think you forgot the word recent.
I'm a nurse and I know what you mean. It's tragic no one is talking about how many people are being left disabled.
long covid was known as Post-viral syndrome b4 covid was the gretest killer ever lol. UK had 17000 deaths in 18 months. we have 28000 death from flu in winter on average. none last 2 yrs tho.........very strange. this is ONS data (official gov numbers)
So in layman's. Delta is stronger (in terms to damage to the body) but not as easily spread. Omicron is weaker but spreads much easier.
It's like the novel virus is trying to evolve to a point that it won't outright kill us, but spread far an wide as Dawkins' original definition of a meme.
Maybe. The major damage that precipitated hospitalization and often death was pulmonary, however covid affects multiple organs and it's a bit soon yet to say that other tissues are not being damaged by omicron.
@@ArawnOfAnnwn I'm not sure I buy that though. People keep comparing it to the spanish flu, but the conditions were radically different. cramped locations due to cities, ships, and war. No real knowledge of how the illness is spread. What happened to new york with covid is exactly what happened to most of the world with the spanish flu. So there is a chance that covid is much deadlier in terms of strength given less of a chance to infect+ modern medicine.
Covid is covid no matter how you slice and dice it. Apparently you can contract ALL variations at same time. I wonder what lovely mutations we'll get from that.
@@YukoValis - World War I was essentially over in 1917. There may have been a couple of cases in December of that year, those cases are not confirmed and the real outbreak didn't begin until the following spring. No ship of the time carried nearly as many people as a Disney cruise liner. The concept of jets that could go from London to New York in a few hours carrying 300 people was science fiction. Most of World War I was fought on horseback, cars were not extremely common, and the idea of commuting 30 miles for a daily job was unthinkable. With unprecedented mobility today, an outbreak of a disease in Johannesburg may be in 12 countries the following week.
I contracted it almost three weeks ago. Still exhausted
Can say personally that both me and my wife are vaccinated/boosted and still got the omicron. Although the symptoms were as minor as a sore throat and occasional headaches, the kids who weren’t vaccinated had flu like symptoms but none of us needed to be hospitalized.
Bottom line: vaccines helped with the severity of the infection for my wife and I (I know it varies from person to person). Relatives of mine who weren’t vaccinated ended up taking a trip to the ER and some had flu like symptoms similar to my children. I don’t judge people for what they believe in or what they want todo with their body but I’ll tell you what, I’m sure as hell glad we did (in the nick of time too).
MY question is: if RNA vaccines are so easy to make due to only need to change the RNA sequence delivered, why the new batches of vaccines doesn't come with the omnicron RNA? As far as I know, it doesn't even come with the delta RNA. We are still using beta's RNA.
Omicron is a new variant
and omicron symptoms can start one day after exposure. It’s not like there’s days in between exposure to work on new vaccines
Doesn't even matter. There are so many variations of covid out there that even if we had a vaccine that worked 100% and made you immune to ONE version it wouldn't help against all the rest. Then again there isn't even a vaccine today that actually works properly. All I hear are excuses. Maybe in a few years we'll have an actual vaccine that works. I just wish people weren't so dumb and put so much faith in the the vaccine. You knew it was over when people stopped wearing masks and keeping distance.
@@huldu I agree with you for the most part, however people will do what they want regardless. So saying that it was "over when people stopped wearing masks" is idiotic.
@@chrismitchell7494 How is it idiotic when it's the literal truth?
Unvaccinated people are getting constant flack for being the cause of spread, yet spend the least amount of time in public gatherings.
That don't make no sense Jim.
How would the vaccine prevent the mutation development if the vaccine is not a prevention for the virus but a prevention of the worse conditions.
Vaccinations bring down the number of cases. Fewer cases means fewer new replications of the virus, which means a smaller chance of mutation. In the long run the numbers might work out to be the same and a mutation will appear eventually, but it’ll come much later and give us time to recover from the previous one and prepare for it
It is a prevention. It's not a 100% prevention. If you take a look at how a vaccine efficiency is calculated you will immediately see that the vaccine not preventing infection is a false statement.
@@lzmunch correction, used to bring down the number. They don't work now.
@@Brisco_County_Jr They still do. Losing effectiveness due to new variants does not mean they do nothing.
@@OakenTome Yeah there is no data but hear say that they do anything. They sure as hell don't stop people from getting it. The verdict is out upon whether it leads to milder symptoms.
I just got a whole dosage of covid knowledge that was in no way politically tainted and I cannot express how much I appreciate this. I'm currently on the tail end of omicron myself, and my family. Previously I'd say a good 50% of what I thought I knew about the vaccine and covid was wrong, and you helped me fill in some important gaps.
Your hair has gotten so long!! I love it, I haven’t watched for a bit and boom, look at all the growth!
LoL I'd rather get covid again than dive into pure math.
5:31 “…it’s different than, say, measles, where vaccination is effective at preventing disease in most people.”
Can you do a show on herd immunity, sterilizing immunity in vaccines, etc.? It’s a very confusing topic.
The scientists over at TWIV, for example, say that the only vaccine that might confer _actual_ sterilizing immunity is the one for HPV. Dr Brianne Barker, for example, says that, although vaccinated individuals are “immune” to, say, chicken pox, they actually _get_ the infection but the body’s immune response snuffs it out so quickly that the individual never knows they’ve been infected. Probably the scientists at TWIV, including Dr Barker, would help you with the basic framework.
The problem is that "sterilizing" is just an arbitrary immunity threshold that virologist use to catalog the vaccines. There's not such a thing as a "sterilizing" vaccine in what you imagine to be sterilizing. All the vaccines work the same way. Even for the measels vaccine.
@@BlueFrenzy Thank you! Yeah, that’s why a show about it would be good. And if there really isn’t such a thing as a “sterilizing” vaccine, then what is herd immunity about? Is it that the window of infectiousness is so small (as in, I assume, chicken pox), that, _in effect,_ it’s like a “sterilizing” vaccine? I think those issues would be good to clarify.
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Here are some videos I watched a while back that had some good visuals on how a disease like Covid can spread and I'm pretty sure they go into herd immunity.
@@jeff__w Herd immunity is more like a mathematical concept (that's why in real life is a bit more complicated than just reaching a threshold of immunes). Imagine the following: You have a virus that infects 2 people per infected on average. That means 2 people will infect 4. Those will infect 8, 16, 32... etc... It grows exponentially. Now imagine that half of the population is immune. It means that one person will spread the virus to 2 people, but on average, one of them will be immune. So one person will infect another. That one, another one... it grows linearly. So the herd immunity is basically the point where, because there's enough immune people that the virus cannot grow exponentially into a pandemic. Even if you get one infected person it's very unlikely this person will infect more than one, making it relatively easy to stop the chain. The famous 60% of immunity refers to the calculation of how many people needs to be immune in order to make an ilness with a spread rate of 2.5 to stop infecting more than 1 person on average.
But there's a few caveats here. First, you don't really know the spread rate. It may be 2.5 as well as it may be 6. It changes over time depending on the conditions. Also, it assumes that the society is homogeneous and that the chances of finding an immune person is the same for everyone, but the society is heterogeneus and we forced a more heterogeneous society by vaccinating certain groups first. Lastly, even if you have a spread rate of 1 per infected, it works marvelous when you have no infected people (since if you add 1 infected to the group, it can on average infect 1 person). But if you have hundreds of thousands of infected people, they will, on average, infect another hundred thousand people. That's why some virologists recommends to consider herd immunity not only when you reach the theshold value, but also when the infection is out of the group.
Complicated stuff, and probably someone with more knowledge will correct me here in some points.
@@jeff__w sounds like you need to read/listen to the "immune" book by the guy that made kurzgesagt. You will learn how the immune system works and what immunity really is
Thanks, Michael Aranda. I enjoy your presentations. =)
These videos are helpful, i feel super lost when watching the news, but this breaks it down nicely
At least no matter how many covid variants show up, we can rest easy knowing Michael has more hairstyle variants.
My parents caught the omicron variant recently despite getting both shots and had very mild symptoms. I probably caught it as well, but didn't show any symptoms and couldn't be tested.
Many other family members, classmates and friends had it as well, it's crazy how infectious this is. I only know maybe 10 people who caught the other variants, but omicron... Omicron is everywhere.
Really love videos like this that go into some scientific detail while still trying to communicate clearly to a lay person.
I feel like a lot of sources either dumb things down a lot to be more widely understood OR are written to an audience of experts and make no attempt to be understandable to a non-expert who is just curious to follow along with the details
This has been one of my main concerns with how many variants that could become more deadly in the future. The country as a whole is rushing things and this will cause even greater damage among everyone.
I tested positive 3 days ago (boosted jan.4). I'm pretty certain I have the omicron variant as all my symptoms match those usually reported. For me it feels like a really sweaty cold, except for one weird symptom: really irritated and itchy skin! I've been breaking out in hives from the mildest friction from my couch or even my clothes. I don't have sensitive or dry skin normally. Has anyone else experienced this?
Someone who works at a local store got a rash after his first or second vaccine. But it also sounds like allergies. I am allergic to some foods, and perfume and if I get to much of either one of the symptoms is my skin being hypersensitiv. Anti-histamines help. It's worth going to the doctor and trying somethings to see what helps.
That could just be an unfortunate combination of allergies and COVID at the same time, wishes to you for health and wellness
Here in the UK we were told that it was a possible, but rare symptom.
Maybe booster #4 will work 🤡
My mother and best friend got Omicron and say this is the worst symptom! My friend’s skin literally gets so itchy, she actually cannot wear except minimal clothes (in this winter!) It’s a symptom that I’m seeing more and more of.
Dude, your hair is so….luscious
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After 2 years of this, including my last year of high school and entrance into post-secondary being butchered, there’s finally a light at the end of the tunnel. Hooray
I love your delivery style.
Thanks for the information.
I really respect the scientists that are working on this research. I have one question, if making the Virus endemic isn't a positive Option in their opinion, how do we get out of this permanent Pandemie state? The solution just can't be, that we shut everything down once Dezember comes around. Doesn't there have to be a point where I becomes part of the normal flu season? As you pointed out, the flu also kills people every year, but that is a risk we as a society have accepted, like the dangers of cars? I would love to hear a different solution, if you have one.
Good question but I think this is a quesiton of ethics not science to answer. Is it worth shutting down society and putting a lot of peolple in degraded quality of life indefinetly just to save a few lives. My opinion is people are going to die anyway. In our mad obssions to prevent every COVID death it is criminal to put a lot of people, esspecially youth and children, into extremely degraded quality of life indefinetly that for a lot of people life is no longer worth living. Yes, we need to come up with more creative solutions but we also need to get rid of our monomania of just preventing deaths and look at what is an acceptable balance between taking mesasures to prevent deaths and ensuring some basic essntial functions of a civilized society are allowed to continue.
I think it's important to take a step or two back and look at all the facts and the way things are or have been transitioning. We know that children arent heavily impacted by covid and also recent tests shows that vaccinating children does little for them. We also know that people with existing health issues, overweight or old age are the most severe or high risk persons. I would suggest then in this case that a care plan to look after the most vulnerable while not locking down whole nations or imprisoning people would be the best approach. Yes while everyone can be a carrier, it would be better to educate everyone surrounding this so that extra measures and safe guards are taken. For example, mask wearing and distancing when meeting with older or vulnerable family members, focus vaccinating on those vulnerable groups as a priority, having all types of hospital and medical treatment available (example hydroxychloroquine) instead of doing what Australia has done and made hydroxychloroquine prescription an offence or against the law. "vaccinating those groups as a priority" could mean bumping down the younger, healthy people so that vulnerable people dont have to wait to be vaccinated.
The virus does not treat everyone the same so we cannot impose the same rules for all.
I think that the point is that if the disease becomes endemic. We have another version of the flu, which in normal years kills around 60-70K Americans floating around. That is undesirable. It will also require regular boosters just like the flu shot which adds further economic costs.
However, with the number of people who refuse to get vaccinated I think that this is the most likely scenario. I don't foresee shutting down the country every year but could see more masking and social distancing recommendations coming from health departments as various waves of the virus hit. We are at the place where we need to learn how to live with it because it's obvious that it's not going away and it's also obvious that the political climate isn't going to allow for shutting down of schools and businesses and "lockdowns" any longer.
Where I live we have a vaccine campaign every flu season for children and elders. I hope that this virus becomes just the same, where every year there's a vaccination campaign for it and it's done
Unfortunately, we missed too opportunity to stop the pandemic. If enough people had gotten the vaccine when it first rolled out, the Delta variant wouldn’t have taken hold and Omicron wouldn’t have happened. Now the percentage of people we would need to be vaccinated is too high to ever achieve with voluntary vaccination. You can thank the people who refuse to get vaccinated, wear masks, or social distance. They are the reason we are in this predicament.
I'm glad you mentioned people who have been vaccinated already. My house got hit with omicron and my vaccinated friend tried to talk me into going out, but people are actively sick so I'd just be a carrier until enough time has passed. I don't think I can get it again after just a week, but I'd probably spread any germs to whoever I'm with. Here in Texas most people aren't wearing masks anymore or social distancing so its spreading like crazy.
Thank you very much
Thank you for this
Both my wife and I had this new version. We both had the 2 main shots and the booster. I had a symptoms of a cold while my wife was hospitalized with pneumonia. 2 weeks after it hit we both feel crappy.
Praying for your full recovery
1:05 'It spreads faster because of its faster spread'
Lol I didn't put verbage together myself, but goddamn if that aint the message.
One of my uncle (well... the boyfriend of my aunt) died yesterday from Covid...
Rest in peace.
Continuing to be my favourite show. Great job once again.
Omicron *may* be the best thing that's happened since the pandemic began. It seems to offer fairly good immunity once someone's had it. And since it's generally far milder of a sickness, its high infectivity could be sweeping the world with a wave of decent immunity. As the video mentioned, still need more data, but from what we see now, it could be good news.
The thing is, when it mutates again, it’ll build off of this one’s transmission and produce even worse symptoms
And by infecting more people than the previous, the deaths will rise too, even if it is milder..
@@prognerite9447 There's already a study of an omicron variant..
@@prognerite9447 worse symptoms are possible BUT (big but) not beneficial for the virus. That is why viruses are known to often get milder as they continue to mutate. It isn't really a given one way or the other, best combination for its survival is to be highly infectious, capable of reinfection, and relatively mild (if not border line imperceivable)..... basically turn into another common cold coronavirus.
@@prognerite9447 lol, not how it works. It could but probably won't.
Omikron has already surpassed Delta here in Germany. We are back to mandatory KN95/FFP2 masks instead of just surgical masks. With how widespread it is, I'm just testing with a rapid test almost every day. I am boostered but a friend got infected despite having 3 shots (no symptoms).
Take care everyone!
Every day? Really.
Every day is excessive
Unless you are sick testing is excessive. Please chill out
@@ajizum82 This variant often presents with no symptoms. In countries where home testing is plentiful it's fine.
Why are you testing if you don't have symptoms? Seems dumb
Amo este canal, se agradece la información... espero llegar a viejo y ustedes sigan así!!
La información con este enfoque científico y objetivo es esencial, ningún periódico va a hacer esto
Gracias!!
My child brought it home from Primary School and me and my wife were triple vaccinated and we caught it along with 2 of our other children so far. Just one of them hasn’t caught it yet and I’m not sure why.
I'm having strong feelings of envy over his hair! Gorgeous!
Just now getting over omicron. Had all but one symptom 😭. I couldn’t get an appointment anywhere after driving through three towns. The walk in had a five hour wait. It’s gonna be hard staying away from this variant- good luck.
Also got vaccinated a year ago. Also also, my toddler was the only one who didn’t get sick out of all of my extended family.
You drove through three towns while knowingly aware that you had covid?
No booster... The booster is very important for Omicron if you don't have it you have the same chance of getting Omicron as someone unvaxxed
More of this would be great
Thanks for the info, that's great and all, but can we talk about how good your hair is? Looking fly dude!
WOuldnt more resistance to the virus increase the chances of mutations? I'm just thinking of an instance where cattle has been injected against something spread by ticks (sorry, cant recall what it was, but it was in South Africa), and over the years they have had to change the shot because the disease became more and more resistant and sometimes more dangerous too. Sort of.. catastrophe stimulates evolution, so why wouldnt that be the same in the virus world. Or am i skew here?
Thanks for the information. As countries are gearing up for a 2nd booster, there's been talk of experts downplaying its effectiveness or in some cases saying frequent doses could interfere with the body's natural immune system for the worse. This is still early, but is there any concrete evidence to deter people from getting a 2nd booster?
Do you happen to know what mechanism is potentially causing the vaccine to interfere with the natural immune system in a negative way?
2nd booster is only effective until the 3rd one comes out. Then they will say the 2nd was useless and get your 3rd immediately. And it goes on..
Mithridatism is the practice of protecting oneself against a poison by gradually self-administering non-lethal amounts. The word is derived from Mithridates VI, the King of Pontus, who so feared being poisoned that he regularly ingested small doses, aiming to develop immunity.
This antivaxxer bs is what will keep this pandemic going, shame on you.
@@eleSDSU calling only anti covid vaxers as antivaxers shows that the media has successfully brainwashed you.
Thank you so much for continuing to provide us with the latest and most accurate information on the pandemic. It's wonderful to have a solid source of information about this where I don't have to worry about vetting the information provided. Stay safe everyone!! 😊❤
It's been fun seeing his hair grow over the years. That's quite a mane he's got now.
A question for you guys : why did the CDC change the definition of what a vaccine is instead of just calling these new vaccines something else? I've thought about that from time to time and couldnt find a good reason
The video was published 4 min ago, and has 1k views, that means 1,000 people are watching the same thing right now, even if you are on 2x
Cool
Thank you