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Omicron at 100% Prevalence, Colorado

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Re: Omicron at 100% Prevalence, Colorado

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Post by gilbetron »

shrikant wrote: post #260
spurgu wrote: post #166

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have omicron right now (4-5 months after 2nd jab, so pretty much no effect from that) and it's just like a common cold (certainly wouldn't call it "battling omicron"). I have zero problems with getting this each year.

Congratulations. Both my wife and I (double vaxxed for 5 months, not boosted yet although were just about to do so) caught Omicron-flavoured Covid in the lead-up to Christmas and it wiped us out each for 2-3 days each, with a combination of fatigue, aches, fever, and violent coughing. Certainly worse than any cold or flu we've had up until that point. I still have a pretty nasty cough and a throat inflammation. Aren'…

That sounds like a fairly typical cold, maybe edging to "bad" in my experience. I'm double vaxxed plus a booster about 1 month ago, and currently have Omicron. I have roughly the same experience as you, although less on the coughing, which is odd because I usually get a lot more coughing with colds.

Re: Omicron at 100% Prevalence, Colorado

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Post by chasd00 »

listless wrote: post #259

Everyone in my house had COVID in September and now we all have it again. Vaccinated, boosted, prior infection - none of it matters when it comes to avoiding the virus. I think we’re at the point where the virus is part of life and the best we can do is get back to living.

i don't know why the parent was modded down. It seems to me the governments are beginning to change the narrative to "the virus is part of life and the best we can do is get back to living.".

Re: Omicron at 100% Prevalence, Colorado

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Post by s1artibartfast »

elif wrote: post #214
hitpointdrew wrote: post #142

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>Surely this is the end of the pandemic? Yes, welcome to the endemic. Covid is here to stay, it doesn't matter if 100% of the world were vaccinated tommrow, covid would not go away. It doesn't matter if you get the vaccination or not, in your life time you WILL get covid (just like the flu, no one escapes it, you typically get the flu about every decade or so regardless of shots). We need to just accept this and move…

I think that may be a completely rational perspective from within the United States... however, from the perspective of countries with effective containment strategies, that sounds prematurely defeatist, and also ignores the vast good that comes from containing spread for mutagenic purposes.

It will be very interesting to see how containment countries adapt to the future, where global eradication simply isn't possible. Perhaps there will be a sterilizing vaccine that makes it worth it in the end.

My heart goes out to those impacted by containment strategies. I was talking with someone from NZ or AU (I forget), who hasn't been able to go home an see his wife in two Christmases.

Re: Omicron at 100% Prevalence, Colorado

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Post by openasocket »

I'd love to see a numbers breakdown estimating the impact Omicron would have on the US if we had a nearly complete (say 90%) vaccination rate. How many infections would we be seeing, how many hospitalizations, how many people in the ICU? How much would this strain our healthcare system? And how would that compare with, say, the flu?

Re: Omicron at 100% Prevalence, Colorado

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Post by jeffbee »

nradov wrote: post #93

The CDC publishes a weekly chart showing the proportions of circulating variants for the US as a whole. The Delta variant had previously driven most other variants near extinction, and now Omicron is doing the same to Delta. https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#circulatingVariant...

That's a potentially misleading visualization. Delta can be steady rolling even if its share falls from 100% to 5%, as it apparently has, if the denominator has increased by the same factor.

Re: Omicron at 100% Prevalence, Colorado

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Post by betterunix2 »

contravariant wrote: post #172
bratwurst3000 wrote: post #152

Just 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…

Why are you hoping for Covid to become endemic?

At this point that is the best case. COVID zero is a pipe dream, there are just too many vaccine refusers and too many people refusing to do anything to avoid spreading the virus. If COVID follows the typical evolutionary pattern of viruses and becomes less dangerous, we can get back to normal life -- the question is how long that will take.

Re: Omicron at 100% Prevalence, Colorado

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Post by dokem »

benjaminwootton wrote: post #103

Surely 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?

The gov and media are never going to straight up tell us the pandemic is over. We have to take our way of life back and let big bro silently move on to something else.

Re: Omicron at 100% Prevalence, Colorado

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Post by acdha »

anewguy9000 wrote: post #345
cmrdporcupine wrote: post #276

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" We can easily see that in many graphs, but my favorite is below from New York City, showing a clear distinction in hospitalizations among vaccinated compared to unvaccinated people " I don't see this as much here in Ontario. Among the vaccinated as of today there is a 10.10/100k hospitalization status vs 16/100k for the unvaccinated (and 11.9 for one-dose). The hospitalization rate among the vaccinated is climbing…

ontario still conflates anyone hospitalized for anything testing positive for covid, with anyone hospitalized from covid; this alone could explain the discrepancy between a hospital bed and icu. lies damned lies and statistics...

It’s not that simple: yes, if someone gets in a car crash it’s probably not COVID but there are many cases where someone had a manageable condition that was disrupted by COVID — not 100% fault but not 0%, and a big problem for hospital capacity.

Re: Omicron at 100% Prevalence, Colorado

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Post by amanaplanacanal »

spurgu wrote: post #182
rixrax wrote: post #120

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I guess it depends on a few things: - how long the immunity gained from having recovered from Omicron lasts - how well that immunity protects against other current (and future) variants of covid - what kind of new strains of covid appears in next several months / years that may replace Omicron - how many people we are able to get vaccinated globally - advances in new and better vaccines becoming available (complete w…

Also: - how much/long the media keeps the fear drum pounding https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI5E8z89c9U

Media fear drum has no effect on whether my local hospital is overwhelmed. Everybody can make their own decisions, as long as hospitals are good.
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