What is the Omicron Variant?

[Shero]

I saw that a few days ago. Source: Moderna executive Paul Burton.

Aww, clever girl !!

 

[AnnieA]

Hoping it is well on it's way to common cold status.

The Omnicron variant may very well be moving us from pandemic to endemic if the global spread follows South Africa's data of mild symptoms, low hospitalizations. The next best set of data is coming from South Northamptonshire UK where Omnicron variant cases first surged in the UK but hospitalizations haven't surged.

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[win231]

The Omicron variant spreads 70 times faster than Delta.

There is every possibility that Omicron and Delta could team up to make a “super variant.”

This is why vaccination and booster are imperative.
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Yes, the Omicron & Delta could team up. I heard viruses love to team up & create super variants.
How do you think I became a Super Variant?

 

[dseag2]

What a valuable contribution! Now that I know I'm gonna die, I better get my affairs in order.

Better get your will in order, Win. Let me know where the Shiva services are being held so I can attend.

 

[Pepper]

Do they? Ever stop and think that if they were not vaccinated they might also have a milder case with less hospitalization and deaths?

Not every Covid case leads to hospitalization and death.

I can prove my assertion; you can't prove yours @Becky1951

 

[Becky1951]

I can prove my assertion; you can't prove yours @Becky1951

Ok, prove how many unvaccinated positive cases were never hospitalized.

 

[Packerjohn]

If this virus keeps mutating, we will never be rid of it and have to keep getting new vaccines every few months.

Yes! This is WONDERFUL news for the drug companies that belong to Fortune 500. eg: Pfizer Drug Company. A real cash cow for them!

 

[Shero]

The World Health Organization has warned that half of Europe will have caught the Omicron Covid variant within the next six to eight weeks.

Dr Hans Kluge said a "west-to-east tidal wave" of Omicron was sweeping across the region, on top of a surge in the Delta variant.

The projection was based on the seven million new cases reported across Europe in the first week of 2022.

The number of infections has more than doubled in a two-week period.
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[Shero]

Covid News: U.S. Hospitalizations Break Record as Omicron Surges

U.S. insurers must cover eight at-home tests each month, the Biden administration says.

The number of Americans hospitalized with Covid-19 has surpassed last winter’s peak, underscoring the severity of the threat the virus continues to pose as the extremely contagious Omicron variant tears through the United States.

As of Sunday, 142,388 people with the virus were hospitalized nationwide, according to data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, surpassing the single-day peak of 142,315 reported on Jan. 14 of last year. The seven-day average of daily hospitalizations was 132,086, an increase of 83 percent from two weeks ago.

The Omicron wave has overwhelmed hospitals and depleted staffs that were already worn out by the Delta variant. It has been driven in large part by people younger than 60. Among people older than 60, daily admissions are still lower than last winter.

The hospitalization totals also include people who test positive for the virus incidentally after being admitted for conditions unrelated to Covid-19; there is no national data showing how many people are in that category.
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[Shero]

Just to offset all of this bad news for the anti- vaxxers - some music to cheer them up!

 

[AnnieA]

Thank goodness today's CDC Omnicron data shows the variant is much milder. That plus its increased transmissibility could very well result in herd immunity that moves us out of the pandemic.

 

[win231]

Nope, don’t bother, if your relatives have the same attitude as you there won’t be anyone to collect your stuff anyway.

No, my relatives don't have the same attitude as I do, but after they got sick, they wish they did.

 

[Shero]

Thank goodness today's CDC Omnicron data shows the variant is much milder. That plus its increased transmissibility could very well result in herd immunity that moves us out of the pandemic.

Annie, why repeat something we all already know
Making assumptions about "herd immunity" is futile.
Even scientists do not know that.
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[Becky1951]

Annie, why repeat something we all already know
Making assumptions about "herd immunity" is futile.
Even scientists do not know that.
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Repeating good news about Omicron being much milder is worth repeating.

Anyone with commen sense knows after having Covid you have immunity, as fast as Omicron is spreading enough people will have immunity. Thus herd immunity.

 

[win231]

Annie, why repeat something we all already know
Making assumptions about "herd immunity" is futile.
Even scientists do not know that.
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Yeah! Ain't she got nerve?

 

[Shero]

 

[win231]

Monthly shots would be better.
Daily shots - even better.

 

[Shero]

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says “incentives and strong measures” have worked in the fight against COVID-19, weighing in on Quebec’s proposed tax on unvaccinated residents.

Speaking to reporters on Wednesday during a pandemic update, Trudeau said Ottawa is reviewing Quebec’s plan to penalize those without a medical exemption with a financial levy “with interest” and is awaiting more details from the province.

“As we’ve said, incentives and strong measures, whether it’s vaccine passports, whether it’s requirements for travellers, whether it’s the requirement for public servants to be fully vaccinated, we have taken very strong measures in the past and they have worked in terms of keeping Canadians safe,” he said.