# Omicron positive news

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Podcast: [Dr. John Campbell](https://stenobird.com/podcast/dr-john-campbell-7851784)
Published: 2026-07-13T04:30:00+00:00
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Omicron, Guess work so far More transmissibility Some vaccine escape Some natural infection escape Causing reinfections in SA in people that had had infection and vaccination Mostly mild symptoms in the vaccinated Effecting younger people Sinovac recipients may do well Global within the week Lateral flow tests still work Every vaccinated and unvaccinated person will encounter this variant Tiredness, headache, body aches, scratchy throat, dry cough Netherlands https://www.dw.com/en/omicron-present-in-netherlands-earlier-than-thought-say-health-authorities/a-59977047 Omicron present at least a week Before 13 (out of 61) passengers from South Africa found to be omicron positive National Institute for Public Health (RIVM) https://www.rivm.nl/en November 19th and 23rd Omicron variant in two test samples (South Africa announced they had identified omicron November 26th) (First Belgium case, 24th November) (Botswana on November 11th) It is not yet clear whether the people concerned (in the earlier cases) had also been to southern Africa Tracking down some 5,000 passengers from South Africa, Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, Zimbabwe Michael Hoelscher, Department for Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Munich University Hospital We're finding an increasing number of variant cases all around Europe, and in fact we believe that the introduction of those variants has been ongoing for a few weeks already What we are also seeing is that there are now first cases of community transmission, so it's within Europe, and the travel bans will probably delay the spread of the disease a little bit but will not be able to hold it up US President Biden Cause for concern not a cause for panic Get boosted No new US lockdown Sequencing 80,000 samples per week Moderna No tw…

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