Omicron now

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scientists have consistently overexagerrated this thing at every turn. you even had posters on here defending their wild predictions, one was telling me 'its good science', as things stand they are roughly 1.8 million cases a day off their prediction regarding this new strain over here. the hospitals are doing fine, youve got hospital chiefs saying the only struggle is that staff who catch it have to isolate, theres no issue with droves of sick patients. some of these scientists need to keep their mouths shut and quit their doommongering comments because their words can make people lose their jobs and go out of business. you had headlines of scientists saying this new variant was 'horrifying' 'the worst moment of the pandemic' what do people think that does to peoples mental health? it turns out that this new variant is weak is piss,admissions down 50 percent from last winter.

You mean like 2 million dying by Christmas? Lol.

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You want to read your own article, man..

22% for the week ending 18th December... when cases were starting to rise but not precipitously, 58.6% for the week ending 25th December and I'd imagine if it follows trend it'll be close to 80% or higher by new year. That's actually pretty damn fast but they clearly overestimated just how fast.

Looking at the graph for the US I'd guess there was also a slight cyclical upswing in delta before the O cases started to really take hold which might have thrown their estimates off by misattributing cases... like they assumed delta was still declining in mid-December.

Either way a mistaken estimate - even a one off by such a wide margin - is not an 'obvious lie'. When you're talking about exponential growth rates as you always are with transmissable disease, even a relatively small error in initial estimates can quickly lead to projections that are wildly innaccurate.

Does it even matter at this point? What have they been right about?

***** is now saying F you sorry it's a state matter. Even tho he said he would get this under control. Can't buy a test for the wife and now it's a 4 day wait to get a test through the country.

They had 2 years to gear up for mutations and just said *** it.

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Well Holy chit the NY times telling the truth.



To me, this feels honestly more about economics than about the science,” said Yonatan Grad, an associate professor of immunology and infectious diseases at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, who has tracked coronavirus infections in the NBA.
“I suspect what it will do is result in at least some people emerging from isolation more quickly, and so there’ll be more opportunities for transmission and that of course will accelerate the spread of COVID-19,” he added, noting that people were unlikely to adhere strictly to masking advice after leaving isolation.
Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said Tuesday that the new guidance had been necessitated by the volume of people about to be infected.
In a series of holiday weekend meetings, she said, agency officials pored over transmissibility data for past variants and signs that omicron caused less severe illness. But ultimately, Walensky said, she decided that rapid tests were not effective enough at diagnosing infectiousness in people.
“You don’t necessarily do a test if you don’t know what you’re going to do with the result,” she said, adding, “The anticipated number of cases that we were seeing required us to take action at this moment.”
The CDC’s recommendations cut isolation periods for infected people from 10 days to five. The agency did not recommend rapid testing before people left isolation.

Just get out there and spread it!

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You think the government wants to treat this?

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So what the CDC is saying is, there's more cases? But I thought they over counted?

FDA: Antigen tests may have reduced sensitivity detecting Omicron

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Tell me again how many are vaxxed in ******ia? Yeah it works.

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The highest vaxxed state.

D.C. has seen a nearly 10-fold increase in cases, which have surged 987% in the past two weeks.

The District reported 9,200 new cases between Dec. 23 and 26, an average of 2,300 a day, according to city data.




Because it works.

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announced that hospital admissions are 7x lower than at their peak during 2nd wave. but the unvaccinated are at risk of 'overwhelming' the nhs apparantly lol

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announced that hospital admissions are 7x lower than at their peak during 2nd wave. but the unvaccinated are at risk of 'overwhelming' the nhs apparantly lol

This chit is all falling apart. It amazes me when I talk to friends that swear they have covid only to find out they don't.

Now everyone thinks a cold is awful and must be covid. I think we forgot about what it's like to be sick from a bad cold or flu.

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***** says there are no Federal solutions. Lol they went for *****'s head when he said this.