Omicron variant caught a cold

[Justin Passing]

Ignoring that omnipresent troll...
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From SA:
"More kids are being admitted than during the early stages of the country entering the current fourth wave of infections, although a similar trend occurred during the third wave when delta was dominant, said Waasila Jassat, public health specialist at the institute."

 

[IT Minion]

You can look at the numbers in SA, where it's been since October.
It isn't as serious as their previous variants, they tell us. That's from the number having to go to hospital because of it,
and the number of those needing ventilation
and the number dying. (0)
Their number of cases is in the tens of thousands, rising rapidly.

What is it about Africans that makes them in your opinion not decent enough to be able to count?

Something else to twitch an eyebrow is that children under the age of 2 account for about 10% of total hospital admissions in the omicron epicenter Tshwane.

Two weeks ago there was a 7 day average of 3,800. By our numbers we expect 1.5% of detected cases to result in hospitalisation for Delta. We would expect to see roughly 57 hospital admissions.

In the last week they had roughly 3,800 admissions or around 542 a day.
https://www.nicd.ac.za/diseases-a-z...ts/daily-hospital-surveillance-datcov-report/

Does that mean Omicron is ten times worse? (No, it just means you can't directly compare the two sets of figures). And how do you get zero deaths? Omicron is the dominant strain in SA at the moment. They have a daily average of 21 deaths right now. How are none of them Omicron?

Their rates of infections, vaccinations, age profiles and current weather are totally different to ours. It is very hard to draw accurate parallels, especially as their statistics are lower quality than ours. In statistics gathering we are world leading

 

[Bosswhite]

I think its a bit naive to think that Omicron is not a serious threat , there must be a reason that this Government has gone to " Plan B" so quickly if this strain only gives one the sniffles , there is something more serious on the Horizon, the Government is letting the public have their Christmas celebrations, come the new year will see how serious this mutation really is .

Over the last couple of days Scientists in South Africa think that Covid has possibly mutated with the HIV virus and is now a different strain running alongside Covid . South Africa having the highest rate of HIV in the world .

 

[denso13]

A couple of weeks ago a south African doctor said the same thing but was ignored

No, it was on all the MSM, maybe that's why you missed it.

 

[ajohn]

Having said 3 jabs would "neutralize" omi, they now say we must have 4 jabs.

There was an interesting C4 Dispatches on Pz yesterday.

It can probably be watched on their web site.

 

[Deleted member 292770]

Not as simple as that.

Let's suppose it's half as deadly

But twice as infectious.

Lets suppose. So?

 

[Deleted member 292770]

mutated with the HIV virus

Some people will literally believe absolutely any old ****.

 

[JohnD]

So?

So the number of infected people would be much higher, and so it would spread faster and wider, so the number of deaths and serious illness would end up higher, and the health system would be more likely to be overwhelmed.

 

[Deleted member 292770]

So the number of infected people would be much higher, and so it would spread faster and wider, so the number of deaths and serious illness would end up higher, and the health system would be more likely to be overwhelmed.

So, do we let a perceived ‘weaker’ strain take over which isn’t hospitalising anywhere near as many and killing almost none in the hope of out doing the Delta strain or keep running around like headless vaccinated chickens hoping it’s all going to go away .

 

[JohnD]

perceived

so you don't have enough information to make a decision.

 

[Deleted member 292770]

so you don't have enough information to make a decision.

It’s not for me to decide . your’e the one with all the regurgitated ‘facts’ .

 

[denso13]

Some people will literally believe absolutely any old ****.

Ain't that a fact.

 

[JohnD]

What did you think when you read today's analysis?

https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/news/2021/modelling-potential-impact-omicron-england

Are the numbers still doubling every 2 to 3 days?

edit

"On Thursday, the UK Health Security Agency reported 249 more cases of the new variant, making it the highest daily figure recorded so far.

On Wednesday, the figure was about half of that number at 131, and on Tuesday, the daily figure of new cases was 101.

The total number of cases of the Omicron variant now stands at 817."

 

[JohnD]

so your earlier post was just nonsense.

So, do we let a perceived ‘weaker’ strain take over which isn’t hospitalising anywhere near as many and killing almost none in the hope of out doing the Delta strain or keep running around like headless vaccinated chickens hoping it’s all going to go away .

 

[Deleted member 292770]

so your earlier post was just nonsense.

was it? why?