Public health official Dr. Anthony Fauci on Wednesday confirmed that the first case of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 has been identified in the United States.
Speaking during a White House press briefing, President Joe Biden’s chief medical adviser said the case was found in California.
Fauci said the patient traveled from South Africa to San Francisco on Nov. 22 and tested positive for COVID-19 on Monday.
“The individual is self-quarantining and all close contacts have been contacted and all close contacts, thus far, have tested negative,” Fauci said. “The individual was fully vaccinated and experienced mild symptoms, which are improving at this point. So this is the first confirmed case of COVID-19 caused by the Omicron variant detected in the United States.”
That’s a different issue:
The World Health Organization designated Omicron a “variant of concern” Friday after it was first identified in South Africa. The organization said Omicron has a large number of mutations and may spread at faster rates than other variants.
News of the variant’s spread prompted countries across the globe to shut down travel from certain areas of Africa, though it has been detected in European countries.
Biden on Monday sought to calm fears about the new variant, saying that current vaccines should be adequate to combat Omicron.
“We have the best vaccine in the world, the best medicines, best scientists, and we’re learning more every single day, and we’ll fight this variant with scientific and knowledgeable actions and speed, not chaos and confusion,” Biden said.
Omicron is a “cause for concern, not a cause for panic.”
Vaccine makers announced Friday that they are testing their COVID-19 vaccines against the new variant, saying it may require new boosters that can target the strain.
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Was there ever a moment of doubt that fast-talking Fauci would ever let a Variant Virus opportunity go to waste for his 15 more seconds of infamy. So, a South African birthed variant shows up first on the American west Coast,,,,,directly planted from China no doubt. I’m sure the Chinese will use all that money they socially redistributed from the USA to fund similar USA Military virus research like Fauci spent US dollars to create it in the Wuhan labs, so true national social equity can be obtained by the equity freaks that now run this nation. Not a chance. The difference is that the Chinese execute their traitors and sell their body parts to empower their god of Science. When the shooting finally starts you can bet those hypersonic missiles obtained in stolen American technology will be filled to the brim with germ warfare with the American complimentary arsenal having been Obama/Biden emptied as Old Mother Hubbard’s Cupboard. Why is that Fauci Napoleon wanna-be traitor not already on trial. Just Follow the money, follow the speech fees, and follow the Chinese laundered campaign donations. Maybe just check his pverseas phone records.
That is why i keep saying, HE WAITED TILL IT WAS TOO LATE TO STOP IT coming here, before he spoke UP ABOUT it…
Just like with Covid itself, THEY WANTED IT To spread, to kick trump out, SO kept advising him, to NOT BAN TRAVEL….
Did Wuhan send him a sample to “distribute”?
Our illustrious PINO, Mr Joe Biden, says it is cause for concern, but not for panic. The whole COVID fiasco has been nothing but a panicdemic, so we will see.
Sounds like before the election when Joe kept acting like the fix was in , did not even have to campaign,,and openly stated the election was in the bag,,,,Then like now Joe knows the fix is in,,,,his party bag of tricks. No need for Democrats to panic, the next election is also in the COVID bag, filled with dead citizens and disgraced Democrat governors whose disgraced media brothers concocted the same old socialist recipe for national conquest that is leading to our national disaster.
Scam-demic.. SINCE this new version, ACCORDING TO THE DOCTORS IN South africa where it came from, is MILDER, and NO ONE WHO HAS HAD IT, has died or even been hospitalized.. THE FACT they are trying to SCARE US TO ALL GOING back into shutdowns and mandates, OVER SOMETHING THAT WON’T put you in hospital, SHOWS ITS all been nothing more than a scam to get power…
O. M. G.!!! And what are the symptoms? Even milder than the dreaded “D variant”….which was less than the original “Novel” Wuhan Fauci Flu which weighed in with a whopping 99.98% survival rate.
But the object is an exploitable “New variant is here!” headline to stoke fear. Oh and this week’s “Fauci Center Stage” routine.
And what is Fauci saying this week? Get ready for another jab and another and another…..
Strange that nobody in the media can come up with the real total American deaths that occurred in 2020, 2021 to compare it to 2018 and 2019. Just how embarrasing and disempowering for Democrats for THE PEOPLE to find out more people died of natural; causes BEFORE the pandemic years that proves COVID was a fraud perpetrated by Dems to steal last election. Strange how 200K died/yr of the flu before COVID but none die now?
ITs also sickening, that EVERY DAY, 24/7, during Trump’s last year in office, EVERY DAMN MEDIA news station, ran with ‘total covid deaths/total hospitalizations etc’, BUT AS SOON AS biden got inaugurated, THOSE STOPPED…
In this latest of the Democrat inspired Fright Night COVID Variant Kabuki plays, their CDC fairyland version begins to take on the images of “A Midsummer’s Nights’ Dream”. Like Shakespeare’s play, the world it portrays is one in which there are two very different political and social dimensions existing together in parallel with each other. The name of COVID-19 becomes Omicron, mother of all diseases, while Fauci plays the part of Oberon, king of all Fauci forest fairies. There is the material world run by successful guys like Trump, and there is the magical fairy world run by the midget king of the fairies Fauci. In Shakespeare’s play there is a guy named Nick Bottom, who has been turned into a donkey by another named Puck. Oberon takes great pleasure in the grotesque spectacle, just like Fauci takes pleasure in sprinkling others with his COVID fairy fear dust, turning as many Americans in Democrat Donkey voters he can. Most Americans are fed up with the Democrat proffered socialist fairyland and are longing to vote back the material world of Trump, where you can hold a real Constitution in your hand, buy affordable gasoline, and feel warm and secure again in your own home without some Fauci CDC police knocking at your door for proof of vaccination.