Upon this, yet to be peer reviewed, December 15, 2021 Hong Kong paper, Dr Malone suggests Omicron could be a blessing, because the pattern of infection suggests more bronchial than deep lung, explains less severe disease. [1, 2, 4]
Studies are showing infectivity and spread of Omicron is fast, but symptoms are overall mild, less severe, less pathogenic compared to previous variants.
Dr Malone hypothesises that “Omicron may have now evolved to replicate more in our upper respiratory airway, and less in the deep part of our lung tissues due to shifts in receptor specificity. In other diseases, like influenza, replication in upper respiratory airways is associated with less severe disease.”
On Fox News, Laura Ingraham show on Dec 18 Dr Malone states that “Omicron blows right through the vaccines and the triple jabbed”, thus the vaccines are not protective against the highly infectious Omicron variant, but at last count the “number of deaths worldwide to Omicron is less than 10” – meaning the disease is mild. [3, 4] Case numbers maybe up, but the death numbers do not follow.