Complex systems, wicked problems. Society, technology, science and more. @UNC professor. @NYTimes columnist. My newsletter is @insight: http://www.theinsight.org
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Tom Nichols Retweeted Dan Diamond
Tom Nichols added,
This just isn’t true. The unusual number of mutations and their relationship to vaccine and infection immunity evading properties were identified within days, at most. This is a topic—dare I say it—that benefits from some expertise in the area. The worries were and are grounded.
You can say that perhaps about the so-called California variant—disproportionate coverage. In this particular case there was a very clear and specific reason, that was empirically grounded very early on. Rest needs time to resolve—it is yet uncertain. Could go many ways.
So far, the expert views I've seen is that this is not a panic-worth situation. And yet the coverage is all Omicron, all day. And so I have doubts about whether expert opinion - and on this issue neither of us represents that - is being accurately reported.
Then you’re listening to the wrong experts. There is some thing genuinely worrying here. What they should say is we don’t yet know where in the spectrum of possibilities this will land—that’s because we were lucky enough to get an early warning for once.
You'd think, after about a month since the variant emerged in SA, there would be at least *some* indication if this was a "Frankenstein Super-Variant" that was gonna completely evade the vaccines and natural immunity and put us back to square one (as reporting made it seem)
We had *five* lab studies in last 24 hours every one of which showing neutralizing antibodies from the 2x vaccinated are severely or completely wiped out against this variant. Not square one as there is more to the immune system and lab isn’t epi but.. It’s a thing.
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