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7. Why is Omicron Affecting even after Complete Vaccination ?

The omicron variant affects the human body even once complete vaccination because Omicron escapes the bulk of existing SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibodies.[15] The clan is characterized by all the thirty-two mutations within the spike, set principally within the N-terminal domain (NTD) and, therefore, the receptor-binding domain (RBD), enhancing the variant fitness and permitting antibody evasion. An examination of its sensitivity to 9 monoclonal antibodies to antibodies present in 115 sera from COVID-19 vaccine recipients or convalescent individuals antibodies present in 115 sera from COVID-19 vaccine recipients or convalescent individuals. All mAbs examined failed to neutralize Omicron entirely or partially; however, a booster Pfizer dose, as well as vaccination of already infected patients, elicited an anti-Omicron neutralizing response, with titers 6-23 times lower against Omicron than against Delta [16]. As a result, most therapeutic monoclonal antibodies and, to a considerable extent, vaccine-elicited antibodies fail to recognize Omicron. On the other hand, Omicron is still neutralized by antibodies produced by a booster vaccine dosage. An investigation was set up to check whether sera's compelling and binding activity from convalescent, mRNA double vaccinated, mRNA boosted, convalescent double vaccinated, and convalescent boosted individuals against wild type, B.1.351 and B.1.1.529 SARSCoV-2 isolates or not. As a result, neutralizing activity of sera from convalescent and double unsusceptible participants was undetectable to terribly low against B.1.1.529 whereas neutralizing activity of sera from people World Health Organization had been exposed to spike 3 or 4 times was maintained, albeit at considerably reduced levels. Binding to the B.1.1.529 receptor-binding domain (RBD) and Nterminal domain (NTD) was decreased in convalescent, not unsusceptible people; however, Vaccine principally maintained it in immune people.[17]

8. Current Research

Researchers of the University of Liverpool used a mouse model to assess and finds that those mice infected with omicron variant experience less severity in their clinical ramification of infection (i. e. less weight, have lower viral loads in both lower and upper respiratory tract, and less extensive inflammation in lungs) than other variants. They also proposed that the Omicron variant is most likely to infect the throat explaining its high transmissibility and low deadliness.[18]

Research made in vivo study on infectivity of the Omicron variant on Syrian hamsters concludes that it is unable to replicate in the lower respiratory tract, has no signs of bronchopneumonia, and has a low viral load in comparison with D614G strain and other VOCs.[19] Researchers of the University of Hong Kong used ex vivo respiratory tract cultures to understand why the Omicron variant may differ in transmissibility and disease severity. They constitute that compared to the novel SARS-CoV-2 virus and the Delta variant, the Omicron variant replicates 70 times faster in human bronchus after 24 hours of infection. In human lung tissue, it replicates ten times lower than original SARS-CoV-2 resulting in lower severity of the disease.[20]

9. CONCLUSIONS

The third/booster vaccine dose provides significant extra protection against the risk of symptomatic disease. COVID19 is a code for Omicron. When the immune system responds to an illness, it is not always obvious how long any developed immunity will last. Even if people become infected due to vaccination or natural infection, they will likely have a moderate illness. Immune responses in older adults, for example, may be weakened. A quick, global immunization campaign in conjunction with other public health measures to stop transmission is the most robust defense against the introduction of new variations of concern."

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