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COVID-19 Reality Check: Omicron Variant Spreads Rapidly But Does Not Cause Death
PJ Media ^ | 12/14/2021 | A.J. Kaufman

Posted on 12/14/2021 8:30:34 PM PST by SeekAndFind

I spent the past week in a more urban area and was shocked. I come from a semi-rural, conservative area, and as Rick Moran wrote Tuesday, COVID-19 hype scarcely exists. But in liberal land, masks, panic, and unnecessary mandates abound.

This is the majority of America. https://t.co/wqYUs99Tzn

— Pradheep J. Shanker (@Neoavatara) December 14, 2021

 

Speaking of neurotic goons, the New York Times claimed Tuesday that “Omicron is a Dress Rehearsal for the Next Pandemic.”

The next pandemic?

The Gray Lady neglects to mention that the best and most important news on omicron is that it’s killed almost no one.

At the worst, there are about 4,700 confirmed cases of the omicron variant in the United Kingdom, which has a socialist health care system. Omicron is now responsible for nearly half the cases in London — a crowded left-wing locale — and will likely become the dominant variant in the capital city later this week.

South African scientists announced the discovery of the omicron variant on Nov. 25. Since then, the country has had 230,000 COVID-19 cases, but fewer than 400 deaths, none resulting from omicron.

So death is minimal.

The study by South Africa’s largest health insurer of 211,000 positive coronavirus cases — of which 78,000 were attributed to omicron — showed that the risk of hospital admissions among adults was 30% lower than during the initial pandemic wave 21 months ago.

Omicron will spread fast, including in the U.S, but it’ll be mostly mild. The other good news is that omicron hasn’t yet triggered a massive rush to America’s hospitals.


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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: covid; mortality; omicron; variant
According to the Department of Health and Human Services, about three-quarters of the country’s hospital beds are being used, which is about the same rate as a month ago.

Just over 8% of hospital beds are being used by coronavirus patients when a month ago that figure was 7%. The percentage of the country’s ICU beds in use by COVID patients has increased, but only by 3%.

1 posted on 12/14/2021 8:30:34 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
Never mind that! The sky is falling, the sky is falling! Omicron, Omicron, rah rah rah! Everyone must get vaxxed! The vax is the answer, our one and only salvation! :-/
2 posted on 12/14/2021 8:47:43 PM PST by ThunderSleeps (Biden/Harris - illegitimate and everyone knows it.)
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To: SeekAndFind

“Omicron Variant Spreads Rapidly But Does Not Cause Death”

The opposite of communism.


3 posted on 12/15/2021 1:28:59 AM PST by ProfessorGoldiloxx
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To: SeekAndFind

One has to be careful about reports that use percentages of bed capacity. In their eyes, when staff leave due to unwanted mandates, the bed capacity goes down, but that is caused by the virus and the unvaccinated.


4 posted on 12/15/2021 1:54:41 AM PST by the_Watchman
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To: SeekAndFind

It’s the sniffles, bro.


5 posted on 12/15/2021 2:42:59 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (Mass hypnosis of society. So many people are blind to the Truth which is in front of them.)
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