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Transmissibility, we're now seeing clearer evidence, we have about two weeks of data now, that show that it's doubling time is faster than what we saw with the delta variant or the beta variant. so there's now stronger evidence that it's more highly transmissible. it's not definitive, but certainly a strong indication. and certainly from the clinical standpoint, the national database of admissions is now confirming that we're now seeing new data emerging that confirms what we initially saw, that the cases tend on the whole to be milder, with fewer requiring oxygenation. so it's interesting tha...

Suggest it could have a major impact on the course of the pandemic. exactly what that impact will be is still difficult to know. we are now starting to see a consistent picture of rapid increase in transmission, although for now the exact rate of increase relative to other variants remains difficult to quantify. in comparison to the beta variant, omicron is a much stronger

>> something that spreads fast, not a mutation -- another mutation may come. of 19 shocking the pfizer ceo doesn't want to put the end, jointly is the school of medicine professor and epidemiologist. what do you make of this? yes, it is a week variant but no, we don't want it to spread. >> of the week variant and wrong about it being more transmissible, less transmissible, the fact is the transmissibility indexes been studied by a smart professor who calculated its transmissibility is comparable to the alpha and beta variant and about a third of what delta is so it's less transmissible delta a...

The researchers analysed their data by looking at the trends of primary (or first time) infection and compared it with that of second time infections.

By WOLFGANG PREISER, CATHRINE SCHEEPERS, JINAL BHIMAN, MARIETJIE VENTER and TULIO de OLIVEIRAOf the Network for Genomics Surveillance in South Africa Since early ...