Comments by "MarcosElMalo2" (@MarcosElMalo2) on "Dr. John Campbell"
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@pmw3839 Short answer is yes, but having both is not a great cause for worry if you’re vaccinated. It’s likely that these early omicron cases also include a proportion of delta.
It’s still the same disease, but your question is interesting. Think of it this way: a person with both (such as the first person in whom the mutation occurred). For whatever reason the omicron variant is more effective (spike change leading to more successful or faster binding to receptors) it began spreading faster in the body of the infected person. When they infected others, it was a combination of the two in some proportion. As others were infected, the omicron variant was able to outperform the delta variant in each host body (those bodies being our fellow humans). The proportion of the omicron variant increases and delta decreases—quite literally one person at a time.
My informed layman’s guess is that if one has some amount of immunity to delta through vaccination or previous illness, those immunities are further blocking or suppressing the delta variant, giving omicron a leg up, but having both variants becomes less and less likely as omicron spreads.
Unknowns:
1)omicron is milder (some data)
2) infection with omicron will provide immunities for previous variants should they pop back up (no data)
3) omicron immunities will be affective against future variants (no data)
There is some preliminary evidence that (1) is true, so there is reason to be hopeful. (2) and (3) are wild guesses on my part—we’ll learn more in the coming days, weeks, and months.
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@jattnijjerable In case you didn’t see my answer to where you posted this question elsewhere, the way that the virus spreads is through micro droplets of moisture that comes from our lungs and mouths, from coughs, sneezes, and normal breathing. The virus is hitching a ride on these tiny droplets. It cannot really spread rapidly without these tiny vehicles.
This is where the masks come in. The mesh on a mask only needs to catch the micro droplets, which are bigger than the mesh. It’s like bollards stopping cars from entering certain areas. Now, your next intelligent question might be, well, why can’t the virus just get out of the car and walk through the bollards. It potentially can! This is why we must replace or cycle our masks. If you have two masks, alternate the days you wear them. Hang your mask taking the day off in a window where the UV rays from sunlight will kill the virus (don’t worry too much if you can’t, the virus doesn’t have a long shelf life outside the human body).
Hope this helps!
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