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Dr. John Campbell · October 16 · 17 min

Omicron BA. 2.75

Next up , BA.2.75, Centaurus Uploaded 14-07-22 https://www.who.int/activities/tracking-SARS-CoV-2-variants https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/exclusives/99655 https://www.forbes.com/sites/williamhaseltine/2022/07/11/ba275-a-dark-horse-in-the-covid-pandemic/ India, early May, spreading fast (50%) (India has low levels of BA.5) Seems to be displacing previous omicrons Looks like an influenza type model will not work Detected in the Bay area, UK, Australia, Germany, Canada, Netherlands European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/cases-2019-ncov-eueea variant under monitoring 7th July Nine new spike protein mutations Amino acid changes, evade some neutralizing antibodies G446S, RBD (was Glycine now Serine) Individual response will be influenced by immune history BA.1 immunity, may be protective Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Next up , BA.2.75, Centaurus

Uploaded 14-07-22

https://www.who.int/activities/tracking-SARS-CoV-2-variants

https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/exclusives/99655

https://www.forbes.com/sites/williamhaseltine/2022/07/11/ba275-a-dark-horse-in-the-covid-pandemic/

India, early May, spreading fast (50%)

(India has low levels of BA.5)

Seems to be displacing previous omicrons

Looks like an influenza type model will not work

Detected in the Bay area, UK, Australia, Germany, Canada, Netherlands

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC)

https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/cases-2019-ncov-eueea

variant under monitoring 7th July

Nine new spike protein mutations

Amino acid changes, evade some neutralizing antibodies

G446S, RBD (was Glycine now Serine)

Individual response will be influenced by immune history

BA.1 immunity, may be protective

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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