An update on the omicron variant and 3 facts that redeem mortality
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 29 November 2021
⏱️ 10 minutes
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A new coronavirus variant has been found in South Africa, causing travel restrictions across the globe as experts try to determine the nature of this new omicron variant. In The Daily Article for November 29, 2021, Dr. Jim Denison reminds us that Christ came to us in a manger during times as dark as these, but through Jesus’ birth we are heirs and children of the Creator.
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| 1:10.8 | Last Thursday, Americans celebrated Thanksgiving publicly. culture for Christ. |
| 1:11.2 | Last Thursday, Americans celebrated Thanksgiving publicly for the first time since the pandemic |
| 1:17.0 | began. |
| 1:18.4 | Last year, the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade comprised just one block. |
| 1:23.5 | This year's parade stretched two and a half miles through Midtown Manhattan. |
| 1:31.5 | Some 3.5 million people were expected to attend. |
| 1:37.9 | The next day, the news broke that a new coronavirus variant had been detected in South Africa and had already been designated a variant of concern, the highest level of threat. |
| 1:50.1 | The variant B.1.1.529 has been named after the Greek letter Amacron. It has more than 30 mutations of the spike protein that current |
| 1:57.3 | vaccines were designed to target. This means it may be more transmittable, |
| 2:02.6 | and our vaccines may be less effective against it. |
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