Omicron now

[man down]

There’s no guarantee that further mutations will make the virus milder and with the infection as high as it is mutations are more likely to occur.

Do you understand how virus work? Do they slow and kill more people? Or do they try and survive and spread faster and become less lethal?

[man down]

Look at the total cases and look at hospitalizations. Some 90,000 cases reported yesterday, over 50,000 on most days yet there are only 11,000 hospitalizations.

Yes to me that is very vey mild.

How many died from Omicron?

[Robbie Barrett]

Look at the total cases and look at hospitalizations. Some 90,000 cases reported yesterday, over 50,000 on most days yet there are only 11,000 hospitalizations. Hospitalizations went up 300 something for 90,000 new cases on the same day.

Yes to me that is very vey mild.

When was the last time there was 11000 in hospital with a mild cold?

[Derranged]

Just another conspiracy created by them thar gay socialist mooslims to discredit our lord and savior *****...

[TernceBudCharlo]

[Citizen Koba]

Hey hey thanks! This is what I've been saying. Sounds like a "pandemic" to me! Lol

I don't understand. Any kinda global scale outbreak of infectious disease is a 'pandemic'.. from the Greek pan = all and demos = people (same root as 'democracy'). The pathogenity of a disease outbreak is not how it's definied... for instance we have a 'flu 'epidemic' every few years when case numbers are a bit higher than usual. Ain't about how deadly it is but about how widespread it is.

But yeah, no need to thank me man, I just been doing what I done all along, offer my interpretation of the best available information at any given time.

This looks quite likely to be the route out - too early to say 100% for sure - but sooner or later the fate of COVID will be to join the multitude of other viruses and bacteria that we simply live with as part of our microbial background noise, the mass spread of Omicron should help speed that along very nicely and hopefully without too many deaths along the way alough this early wave could cause significant problems simply as a result of so many people being ill or hospitalised at once even if the vast majority of cases are relatively mild.

[Dakuwaqa]

Do you understand how virus work? Do they slow and kill more people? Or do they try and survive and spread faster and become less lethal?

Well the Alpha and Delta mutations had higher mortality rates than the original Wuhan strain.

Thoughts?

[TernceBudCharlo]

When was the last time there was 11000 in hospital with a mild cold?

If you saw the link I sent, it's really half that number since half those people were not hospitalized for covid, they were hospitalized for other stuff but tested positive.

Almost a million people in the state have probably gotten omicron, maybe more. 80,000 new cases per day for a long time and that doesn't even include home tests.

5,500 hospitalizations for over a million cases is VERY mild. Most of these people I'm sure are either elderly or obese.

[man down]

Well the Alpha and Delta mutations had higher mortality rates than the original Wuhan strain.

Thoughts?

What changed?


What happened to the 1918 flu pandemic? Did we vaxx out way out of it?

[Robbie Barrett]

If you saw the link I sent, it's really half that number since half those people were not hospitalized for covid, they were hospitalized for other stuff but tested positive.

Almost a million people in the state have probably gotten omicron, maybe more. 80,000 new cases per day for a long time and that doesn't even include home tests.

5,500 hospitalizations for over a million cases is VERY mild. Most of these people I'm sure are either elderly or obese.

Most of those people are vaccinated. We're seeing around the world unvaccinated are more affected. So is it omicron being a "mild cold" or people being better protected?