Omicron started picking up in mid December. Deaths went up from the prior Delta wave and then settled down with Omicron - even as case loads went up 4X.
The death rate is now LOWER than it was a few weeks ago, before Omicron. Maybe there will be 50,000 dead - but Delta would have killed more. It was killing more and with fewer cases.
So far, it looks like death rates are going down - even in the US. There was a Delta rush that drove rates up but is now being displaced by a far less dangerous Omicron wave.
The mutations have occurred within *SINGLE* patients. Single individuals with AIDS or TB - not mass collections. This is how you get 50 mutations in a whack with no intermediaries in the community. The disease mutates and mutates and mutates in *one person.*
The key is to protect and monitor people with specific conditions that enable this sort of mutation - not to worry about widespread that can only yield small mutations. In fact we want the most direct and fastest line we can have on relatively benign strains like Omicron so that we are protected before more dangerous mutations can develop in those individuals and spread.
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Omicron started picking up in mid December. Deaths went up from the prior Delta wave and then settled down with Omicron - even as case loads went up 4X.
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Which might be why the death rate has now fallen.
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Israel might decide to do just that - requiring no testing or isolation for the asymptomatic.
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The death rate is now LOWER than it was a few weeks ago, before Omicron. Maybe there will be 50,000 dead - but Delta would have killed more. It was killing more and with fewer cases.
So far, it looks like death rates are going down - even in the US. There was a Delta rush that drove rates up but is now being displaced by a far less dangerous Omicron wave.
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The mutations have occurred within *SINGLE* patients. Single individuals with AIDS or TB - not mass collections. This is how you get 50 mutations in a whack with no intermediaries in the community. The disease mutates and mutates and mutates in *one person.*
The key is to protect and monitor people with specific conditions that enable this sort of mutation - not to worry about widespread that can only yield small mutations. In fact we want the most direct and fastest line we can have on relatively benign strains like Omicron so that we are protected before more dangerous mutations can develop in those individuals and spread.
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I don't know. Apparently they suspect the antigen aren't even detecting it. You are right though, it is all pretty pointless.
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But is this more than were already being killed. So far the death rate is 20% LOWER than it was before Omicron on Dec 3rd.
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I'm pro spread. But I still did the daily tests required for my kids. Spent two hours in line on Sunday for an official test. Urg.
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I believe it is up to 3 days with the new variant. Then again, there are apparently symptoms after 3 days with the new variant. A big improvement.