Omicron variant more resistant to vaccine but causes less severe Covid: study
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Re: Omicron variant more resistant to vaccine but causes less severe Covid: study
#2Quote: The study by Discovery Health, South Africa’s largest health insurer, of 211,000 positive coronavirus cases, of which 78,000 were attributed to omicron, showed that risk of hospital admissions among adults who contracted covid-19 was 29 percent lower than in the initial pandemic wave that emerged in March 2020.
Re: Omicron variant more resistant to vaccine but causes less severe Covid: study
#3Quote: The study by Discovery Health, South Africa’s largest health insurer, of 211,000 positive coronavirus cases, of which 78,000 were attributed to omicron, showed that risk of hospital admissions among adults who contracted covid-19 was 29 percent lower than in the initial pandemic wave that emerged in March 2020.
Maybe it is lower because it is the second infection some had.
Re: Omicron variant more resistant to vaccine but causes less severe Covid: study
#4Quote: The study by Discovery Health, South Africa’s largest health insurer, of 211,000 positive coronavirus cases, of which 78,000 were attributed to omicron, showed that risk of hospital admissions among adults who contracted covid-19 was 29 percent lower than in the initial pandemic wave that emerged in March 2020.
Maybe it is lower because it is the second infection some had.
Or they were vaccinated
Re: Omicron variant more resistant to vaccine but causes less severe Covid: study
#5Quote: The study by Discovery Health, South Africa’s largest health insurer, of 211,000 positive coronavirus cases, of which 78,000 were attributed to omicron, showed that risk of hospital admissions among adults who contracted covid-19 was 29 percent lower than in the initial pandemic wave that emerged in March 2020.
Maybe it is lower because it is the second infection some had.
Edit: double post, reference edited in above.
Re: Omicron variant more resistant to vaccine but causes less severe Covid: study
#6Re: Omicron variant more resistant to vaccine but causes less severe Covid: study
#7Quote: The study by Discovery Health, South Africa’s largest health insurer, of 211,000 positive coronavirus cases, of which 78,000 were attributed to omicron, showed that risk of hospital admissions among adults who contracted covid-19 was 29 percent lower than in the initial pandemic wave that emerged in March 2020.
Maybe it is lower because it is the second infection some had.
Wouldn’t that be inconsistent with the other, related data:
Quote:
“National data show an exponential increase in both new infections and test positivity rates during the first three weeks of this wave, indicating a highly transmissible variant with rapid community spread of infection.”
Re: Omicron variant more resistant to vaccine but causes less severe Covid: study
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Maybe it is lower because it is the second infection some had.
Or they were vaccinated
South Africa has [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/28/world/africa/south-africa...
Re: Omicron variant more resistant to vaccine but causes less severe Covid: study
#9There are a few important bits here:
First: "The study by Discovery Health, South Africa’s largest health insurer, of 211,000 positive coronavirus cases, of which 78,000 were attributed to omicron, showed that risk of hospital admissions among adults who contracted covid-19 was 29 percent lower than in the initial pandemic wave that emerged in March 2020."
and second: "At the same time, the vaccine may offer 70 percent protection against being hospitalized with omicron, the study found, describing that level of protection as “very good.”"
Yes the vaccine does improve outcomes BUT the hospitalization rate for unvaccinated people is still lower with Omicron than previous variants.
Re: Omicron variant more resistant to vaccine but causes less severe Covid: study
#10Quote: The study by Discovery Health, South Africa’s largest health insurer, of 211,000 positive coronavirus cases, of which 78,000 were attributed to omicron, showed that risk of hospital admissions among adults who contracted covid-19 was 29 percent lower than in the initial pandemic wave that emerged in March 2020.
Maybe it is lower because it is the second infection some had.
Second infections, on average, have slightly worse outcomes then first infections among the unvaccinated.
https://jim.bmj.com/content/69/6/1253
It's a small sample, but it was done on data available in 2020, which was before vaccines were available.