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What are the most common Omicron BF.7 symptoms?
So far, the symptoms of the BF.7 subvariant, which are reported globally includes:
- Continuous coughing
- Difficulty in hearing
- Chest pain
- Shaking or quivering
- Changes in sense of smell
From Chest pain, deafness, shivering among top symptoms that could be Omicron BF.7
More than 60% of China and 10% of the world’s population is likely to be infected with Covid-19 over the next 90 days with deaths likely in the millions, top epidemiologist and health economist Eric Feigl-Ding has estimated.
According to Feigl-Ding, the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) goal is “let whoever needs to be infected, infected, let whoever needs to die, die. Early infections, early deaths, early peak, early resumption of production.”
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Wall Street Journal reported this week that one of Beijing’s designated crematoria for Covid-19 patients has been flooded with dead bodies in recent days, offering an early hint at the human cost of the country’s abrupt loosening of pandemic restrictions.
Beijing Dongjiao Crematory, on the eastern edge of the Chinese capital, has experienced a jump in requests for cremation and other funerary services, according to people who work at the compound, reported WSJ.
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According to the epidemiologist, the cremation in Beijing is nonstop. Morgues are overloaded. Refrigerated containers needed. 24/7 funerals. 2000 bodies backlogged for cremations. Sound familiar? It is spring 2020 all over again– but this time for China, emulating more Western-mass infection approach.
People rushed to a pharmaceutical factory to buy ibuprofen because it is completely sold out elsewhere.
One said that, typically, all the day’s corpses would be cremated by midday. But the recent increase in the number of bodies has meant that cremations are now taking place long after nightfall.
From ‘Thermonuclear Bad’: Epidemiologist Estimates 60% Of China Likely To Be Infected With Covid In Next 90 Days
Other emerging data suggests some of these recombinant variants can evade immunity, both from vaccines and previous COVID infections, too. And as a "variant soup" threatens to simultaneously drive multiple COVID waves this winter, that gives more opportunity for recombinants to emerge and perhaps dominate.
Fever clinic in the epidemic storm
December 21, 2022 15:23 The Paper News
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At 1:00 in the morning, Li Yunhui walked out of the gate of the hot clinic and took off her airtight protective clothing. She felt briefly relieved.
At this time, there are still hundreds of patients queuing up in the consultation room, and some may wait for more than 24 hours. Li Yunhui looked back and knew she couldn't relax.
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Waves of patients are pouring into the hospital. It is sometimes difficult to separate patients who are positive and negative for the new crown. Infection among medical staff is almost inevitable.
Zhang Xiujie, a surgeon at a tertiary hospital in Beijing, told us that 90% of his colleagues who were transferred to the fever clinic with him were infected. And Li Yunhui said that once someone is infected, the corresponding department will immediately add manpower to take over, "basically achieve a seamless connection", because the fever clinic cannot stop.
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The current epidemic situation is severe, and the leaders of the hospital require that even if the staff in other departments are a little nervous, they must ensure the normal operation of the fever clinic. Because there are more and more positive patients, although we wear protective clothing during the consultation process, we cannot avoid the phenomenon of cross-infection. Colleagues are infected every day. Once infected, the corresponding department immediately sends medical staff to take over. Basically, To achieve seamless docking.
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I roughly estimate that the fever clinic sees 700-800 patients 24 hours a day, and the number of adults is three times that of children. Generally speaking, there are more adults at night, and the three doctors are basically endless. There are basically about 100-200 people on the waiting list, and the waiting time for patients is more than 5 hours.
From FluTrackers, translated from Chinese.
China - Several doctors describe conditions in COVID-19 fever clinics - December 21, 2022
Li said BF.7 is believed to have an R0, or basic reproduction number, of 10 to 18.6. Therefore, an infected person will transmit the virus to an average of 10 to 18.6 other people when he or she is in contact. Research has shown omicron had an average R0 of 5.08. besides, BF.7 has more mutations in its spike protein than its base variant, which makes it even more infectious and dangerous, even to those who are fully vaccinated.
Covid variant BF.7 spreading like wildfire in China: How worried should you be?
originally posted by: quintessentone
Other emerging data suggests some of these recombinant variants can evade immunity, both from vaccines and previous COVID infections, too. And as a "variant soup" threatens to simultaneously drive multiple COVID waves this winter, that gives more opportunity for recombinants to emerge and perhaps dominate.
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Honestly, how do we prep for this?