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Omicron at 100% Prevalence, Colorado
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#262If the studies suggesting that Omicron antibodies help protect against the Delta variant, and Omicron seems much more mild in comparison - looks like we're seeing an actual possibility of an end to the pandemic (at least to the point where we deal with COVID like we do with cold and flu season instead of shutting down the world).
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#263Just giving my 2 cents. Got boosted 3 weeks ago. Now I have covid. Everything is fine, feels like the least ill i ever was from anything. But I wanted to state that omnicron is a beast. I did wear a ffp2 mask with nearly every social contact and if we didnt wear mask we would test ourself. I am sure I got it from the streets from people passing by. That said I am in the french alps and it was vacation time here. And…
Maybe it's time to start taking the wear 2 masks advice seriously.
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#264Earlier quoted context omitted.
Granted this still needs peer review...but you may want to look into this: https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-1139035/v1 I hope your recovery goes well and you truly have zero issues.
Remember all the articles claiming covid gave you brain damage? What ever happened to that?
What happened is that we have a better understanding of the kind of brain damage it does, and how it does it.
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#265Earlier quoted context omitted.
I will say beforehand that I'm heavily pro-vaccination and reducing risks regarding covid. Do we know at this point what are the hospitalization rates of omicron compared to the flu? p.s. I hope your wife gets better soon.
Numbers are still changing but the current stat is one percent hospitalization rate for Omicron. This year's flu has a hospitalization rate almost twice as high as last year's, at 1.4 in 100,000 or 0.0014%.
This can't be right.
> For the week ending Dec. 18, 1,265 lab-confirmed flu patients were hospitalized, up from the week prior. The cumulative hospitalization rate was 1.4 per 100,000 population as of Dec. 18, nearly double the overall cumulative hospitalization rate reported during the 2020-21 season. 3
I think you're comparing hospitalization rate per population vs. hospitalization per infected persons. If we look at the recent data and do some estimation, that's about 50k new hospitalzed for 3M new omicron cases, which is 0.016 or 10 times the flu; this sounds more reasonable.
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#266Earlier quoted context omitted.
Plenty of unvaccinated (the vast majority, in fact) also experience mild symptoms. It's almost like you've got an unfalsifiable way to always say "it worked!"
> Plenty of unvaccinated (the vast majority, in fact) also experience mild symptoms. This is true of essentially all diseases except some very very rare exceptions that also tend to burn out very quickly. That's just how disease spread works, mild cases help the virus propagate. It's not like the virus is a mustache twirling villain that wants to murder you, it takes a fairly specific balance to obtain long term surv…
> Severe outcomes are blatantly more common, per capita, in people who are not vaccinated.
With omicron? I have not seen any data to support that.
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#267Surely this is the end of the pandemic? With an estimated 300k+ cases per day here in the UK, that is 10 million this month on top of everyone who has already had it. It’s as though nobody is ready to acknowledge the elephant in the room that Covid is nearly finished. Or am I missing something?
You're missing the fact you can catch it over and over. My wife is currently battling Omicron after we both had covid at the start of last year. Fully vaccinated and boosted three weeks ago, caught it anyway. With an infected population this massive mutations happen fast enough to cause a new wave before the old one burns out.
Are the unvaccinated catching it over and over again? That seems to me a vanishingly rare occurrence, admittedly within a rapidly shrinking set of people. It would be interesting to get some figures for this, hopefully without being lynched for asking the question.
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#268Earlier quoted context omitted.
The official guidence is that LFT are only to be used if you DO NOT have symptoms. If you have symptoms you should instead be getting a PCR (lab) test. Official guidence: > There are different tests you can get to check if you have coronavirus (COVID-19). The test you need depends on why you're getting tested. > The 2 main tests are: > PCR tests – mainly for people with symptoms, they're sent to a lab to be checked >…
Well, the symptoms according to the NHS are fever, cough and loss of smell/taste. If you have runny nose and sore throat, you don't have coronavirus symptoms. Technically. So you take a LFT, right?
That was my interpretation.
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Is there even a single confirmed death from Omicron yet? I've heard of a couple but they turned out to be fake. This is a highly dynamic situation. Omicron is not alpha or even delta.
An unvaccinated man with underlying health conditions died in Texas mid December after testing positive for the COVID-19 omicron variant, officials in Houston said, marking what is believed to be the first death linked to the strain in the U.S. https://www.webmd.com/vaccines/covid-19-vaccine/news/2021122...
Your article perfectly illustrates my point. It says Omicron is 3/4 of the cases and that this one person MIGHT have died from it, but it's unclear and may be due to his other health conditions.
Let's just assume it was Omicron that killed this guy. All signs point to Omicron being less deadly than the common cold.
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#270Earlier quoted context omitted.
Granted this still needs peer review...but you may want to look into this: https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-1139035/v1 I hope your recovery goes well and you truly have zero issues.
Remember all the articles claiming covid gave you brain damage? What ever happened to that?
It's not a high percentage of cases. But there are significant number of people reporting long-term issues with brain fog post-covid. Whether that's actually caused by a brain issue I don't know. But it certainly seems to be able to effect your ability to think.