tomdalton22
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We have years of data on covid infections and who is being infected. We have 10 months atleast of data on several vaccines and how they impacted infections and deaths.
Real doctors will tell you Omicron is not any "less severe". It will infect more people and is likely that more people will die. There will be a lower death %. But again...people need to understand 3rd grade math in order to understand how that works....like numerators and denominators and effects when the denominator sharply increases. natural immunity means shit as perfectly healthy people keep getting it over and over again as natural antibodies seem to fade fairly quickly (varies greatly by the person but typically test results will show 0 antibodies after 3 months of being sick).
The last point is the most BS on your post considering Omicron has been here less than a month, has been the dominant strain for a matter of weeks and theres virtually no data on recovery for people that have antibodies from previous strains that literally just recovered from Omicron. If there was data like that avsilable it would be dumb because it would only include the people that just got sick and recovered. It wouldnt include any of the people that are still sick in the hospital...cause they havent recovered ...or died yet.
ae you sure?
from NY Times article. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/11/health/california-omicron-hospitalizations.html
A new study of nearly 70,000 Covid patients in California demonstrates that Omicron causes less severe disease than other coronavirus variants.
The new research, posted online Tuesday, aligns with similar findings from South Africa, Britain and Denmark, as well as a host of experiments on animals.
?It?s truly a viral factor that accounts for reduced severity,? said Joseph Lewnard, an epidemiologist at the University of California, Berkeley, and an author of the study, which has not yet been published in a scientific journal.
Compared with Delta, Omicron infections were half as likely to send people to the hospital. Out of more than 52,000 Omicron patients identified from electronic medical records of Kaiser Permanente of Southern California, a large health system, Dr. Lewnard and his colleagues found that not a single patient went on a ventilator during that time.
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