Open Pandemics connection to new variant.

[The_Heretic]

Came across this last night while doing some reading. For those working on WCG's Open Pandemics you know that it's being done through the company Scripps Research. Looks like one of their Immunologists, Kristian Andersen, has been involved with this latest variant Omicron from the start. Article about him / it is here.

https://www.science.org/content/art...why-we-won-t-know-weeks-how-dangerous-omicron

"At 7:30 a.m. on 24 November, Kristian Andersen, an infectious disease researcher at Scripps Research, received a message on Slack: “This variant is completely insane.” Andrew Rambaut of the University of Edinburgh was reacting to a new SARS-CoV-2 genome sequence found in three samples collected in Botswana on 11 November and one picked up a week later in a traveler from South Africa to Hong Kong."

Also he is on Twitter and his handle is Kristian G. Andersen @K_G_Andersen if you wish to look him up there.

Good to see the work we're doing is going toward folks dealing with this on the forefront.