No Severe Omicron COVID-19 Cases Among Vaccinated People: Top Israeli Expert

• No Severe Omicron COVID-19 Cases Among Vaccinated People: Top Israeli Expert
  by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times, via https://www.zerohedge.com/
  Israeli officials said that researchers have not found any severe COVID-19 cases among vaccinated people infected with the Omicron variant. The CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus strain – which was named Omicron by the World Health Organization (WHO) last week – has prompted fresh global panic as a number of countries imposed travel restrictions on southern African countries, where the variant was first located.
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  Dr. Sharon Alroy-Preis, Israel’s head of public health services, noted that the Omicron infection chance is “very high,” but he said that vaccinated people who have been infected with the variant only became slightly sick, local media reported.
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  And professor Dror Mevorach, who is in charge of the COVID-19 department at the Hadassah University Hospital Ein Karem, said early reports on those infected with the new variant are encouraging.
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  “If it continues this way, this might be a relatively mild illness compared to the Delta variant, and paradoxically, if it takes over, it will lead to lower infection rates,” Mevorach remarked, according to the Haaretz news outlet.
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  Although it’s too early to make a determination, he continued, “at this point, it’s important to collect information, not speculations.”
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  Despite that, Israel joined a growing list of countries—including the United States—to impose travel restrictions this week. At the same time, top health officials around the world suggested that new lockdowns might be needed to curb the spread of the CCP virus strain, despite not knowing whether Omicron leads to more severe disease.
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  Over the weekend, the chair of the South African Medical Association, Dr. Angelique Coetzee, that alerted authorities about the newest variant, told media outlets that Omicron patients’ symptoms were “so different and so mild from those I had treated before.”
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