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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Now that we know pharma companies don’t do testing, we get a perfect test lab for omicron: the state of Florida. There the new covid rate is thru the roof. So far the fatality rate hasn’t responded. In that sense it looks like South Africa’s data.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa/florida/">https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa/florida/</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>If you look at the data on this site, it takes about 12 days lag time between when the case rate takes off to the time the fatality rate takes off. >From what I can tell, the upward trend was obvious on 15 Dec, so 12 days later is tomorrow.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Pretty soon we will find out if omicron is that mutant which is relatively benign and whether it confers immunological benefits against its cousins. Let us hope.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><img border=0 width=712 height=444 style='width:7.4166in;height:4.625in' id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D7FA60.C070A090"><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><img border=0 width=715 height=445 style='width:7.4479in;height:4.6354in' id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image002.jpg@01D7FA60.C070A090"><o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>