Crazy, almost unbelievable, Covid spread in the United States. We're lucky it's been mainly mild infections and not pathogenic although the latter can easily change because this thing is very unpredictable. wrbtrader
We need people working and untangle supply chain problems. Having people out sick / quarantined for an Omicron infection that mainly causes just a mild illness is pure stupidity. Further, a small percentage of those infected with Omicron will result in increasing severe illnesses and hospitalizations...putting a great strain on our healthcare system that's already near capacity levels like 2020. It could be catastrophic for hospitals that are already missing key medical staff and a blow to the economic recovery to try to get out of the Pandemic. Some hospitals already using military medical personnel and/or putting patients on floors because they've run out of beds. I think the Covidiots are waiting for them to start burning dead Covid patients in parking lots to wake up...just as they did in India. The good news, South Africa is now showing it may have peaked. Hopefully, the rest of the world will do the same before Omicron can mutate again...into something more pathogenic. Last Year's favorite one-liner sentence by the Covidiots: It's just like the FLU Then Covid mutated into something very pathogenic...causing an additional 200k deaths before the end of 2020 and we're still being ignorant within the Pandemic now into the end of 2021. wrbtrader
140M new COVID-19 infections possible in first two months of new year, experts say https://thehill.com/policy/healthca...new-covid-19-infections-possible-in-first-two The U.S. may see as many as 140 million new COVID-19 infections in the first two months of 2022, according to new modeling data from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington’s School of Medicine. After revising their modeling data to include updated information about the omicron variant, researchers found that the U.S. may reach about 140 million new infections between Jan. 1 and March 1, 2022, with a peak of 2.8 million daily new infections in late January. “We are expecting an enormous surge in infections ... so, an enormous spread of omicron,” IHME director Dr. Chris Murray said Wednesday, according to USA Today. “Total infections in the U.S. we forecast are going from about 40% of the U.S. having been infected so far, to having in the next 2 to 3 months, 60% of the U.S. getting infected with omicron.” Murray noted that more than 90 percent of those infected with omicron might never show symptoms, leading researchers to predict that only about 400,000 cases may be reported. As of Thursday, the U.S. has about 51.6 million confirmed cases since the pandemic began, according to the latest Johns Hopkins data. While the latest strain is likely to lead to soaring infections due to its high transmissibility, it is also expected to be less severe than previous variants. “In the past, we roughly thought that COVID was 10 times worse than flu and now we have a variant that is probably at least 10 times less severe,” Murray said, according to the news outlet. “So, omicron will probably … be less severe than flu but much more transmissible.” However, Julie Swann, a professor at North Carolina State University who studies pandemic modeling and health systems, assured the public that the predictions are based on early data and information. “Sure, this [is] a potential outcome,” she said, according to USA Today. “How certain am I that this is the outcome? Not certain at all.” Models of world data project about 3 billion new infections in January and February, with a peak in late January.
Biden Omicron measures too little, too late for fast-moving virus -experts https://www.reuters.com/business/he...oo-late-fast-moving-virus-experts-2021-12-23/
That is one hell of a brain fart she had there. I hope she doesn't run for President in 2024. She is just like Biden.
Vaccines are the best explanation for Omicron's mild symptoms in most people, new research suggests https://www.businessinsider.com/omicron-symptoms-why-are-they-milder-vaccines-early-data-2021-12