When I find some interesting news on popular science websites, I usually have te habit to download the original publication (even if I am not capable to grasp everything from it). It is this one in the present case. As a side note, this is precisely (somewhat) the raison d'etre of STEMsocial. Anyways...
What puzzles me is that there is not a single mention to COVID in the mBio paper. I am thus afraid that SciTechDaily is over optimistic. Or maybe it is just me who is too pessimistic… I felt the same dose of pessimism when I read on the first sentences of this blog:
I honestly thought by 2022 it would have become history.
You are indeed much more optimistic than me. When the pandemic started, I immediately thought about 3 or 4 years of embarrassments.
Anyways, thanks for sharing this and I truly hope this research (or similar ones) will be useful in the future to move away from the present era…
Cheers!
Thanks for sharing the original publication. It is strange that it wouldn't mention covid at all. I tried to search, didn't see any mention of it either.
It seems the latest variant is not too bad. I haven't previously interacted closely with those who I knew contracted the virus. But this month, all of the sudden I ended up finding out 5 people who I talked to tested positive. I learned about it after the fact, but in all cases they either had no symptoms or very mild symptoms and recovered within a week. I got lucky not catching it. Or maybe I did and didn't know.
Thank you @lemouth.
I have read an interview of an French epidemiologist saying that while Omicron is not too bad, we can never be sure about the next variant. With viruses, we should always keep in mind that the situation can evolve in a worse or a better way in no time. The important point is that science does actually not know, which is a narrative the media and politics do not like.
Here, the little one just brought it back from school last Thursday. Fully asymptomatic, we only discovered it because he is tested every other day (that's necessary to be allowed to enter school). He was the only one of the family infected, and today we are all four negative (note that we spent a bad week-end with social distancing inside the house).
This being said, we are probably very lucky compared with other families that we know where symptoms were there and everyone got infected.