CV and mad panic behaviour

[Mav]

Oh boy ... WHO has declared the new Sth African variant as a Variant of Concern and named it Omicron.

It has made it's way quickly through the 1st 2 stages of classification: Variant under Monitoring (24/11/21), Variant of Interest (26/11/21) and now meets the criteria for a Variant of Concern:

Variants of Concern (VOC)
Working definition:
A SARS-CoV-2 variant that meets the definition of a VOI (see below) and, through a comparative assessment, has been demonstrated to be associated with one or more of the following changes at a degree of global public health significance:

• Increase in transmissibility or detrimental change in COVID-19 epidemiology; OR
  
• Increase in virulence or change in clinical disease presentation; OR
  
• Decrease in effectiveness of public health and social measures or available diagnostics, vaccines, therapeutics.