Hospitalizations lag positives so there's no real-time data yet on how long the stays are, or rate of ICU admissions/mortality. NYC may be the first major city to tell the story, also from AP:
"Nearly 42,600 people citywide tested positive from Wednesday through Saturday — compared to fewer than 35,800 in the entire month of November. More than 15,000 additional positive tests came back Sunday...The city has never had so many people test positive in such a short period of time since testing became widely available..." After reprieve, NYC is rattled by a stunning virus spike
Omi looks to be the same RO as Delta - one infected can infect 2 to 3 others. To understand the fast spread, The Math That Explains Why Omicron Is Suddenly Everywhere;Gary Cornell, Slate Magazine
To add at least a little value, with, imo, a BIG caveat that the 'recovered patient' sera was of the "wild" (Alpha) SARS2 and not those recovered from Delta, here's a Dec 14 preprint study, 21 pages with graphs and mutation graphics, HongKong/NY/ColumbiaU about natural/vaccinated resistance. Serum samples were obtained one month post recovery and were collected during the wild strain of SARS2, all four vaccines sera was collected 2 weeks after final dose, and monoclonals tested were Regeneron, 2 NIH candidates and one MIT candidate. Striking Antibody Evasion Manifested by the Omicron Variant of SARS-CoV-2
In other news, Israel today banned travel from the US/Canada while Bumbling Biden, who may have been in close contact with a symptomatic carrier himself, keeps travel from SA open, under the premise that the hint of accusations of racism, and relying on travelers to actually self-quarantine after they return (which history has shown they do not) is more important than containing disease and opening the economy.
Time to ramp up the fear. Turbo mode...
Hold on tight guys....
So from 0.4% to 73% in a few days. Got it.
We’re all doomed!
I’ve been trying to encourage people to go see the new 2 1/2 hour Spider-Man movie in one of the packed, sold-out showings. Those long hours will present an excellent chance for exposure to and picking up a case of the mild Omicron variant. And, of course, along with Omicron you’ll catch some natural immunity.
More Communism will cure this disease.
Can you delay this until after New Years? This is a real bummer.
Lies and propaganda. Call it the “midterm variant.”
Sorry - I’m not buying this propaganda push to further enslave the nation.
Yes, its obvious that everyone’s getting the couf - but in my state there’s been exactly ONE occurrence of the omni variant - 99% is still Delta.
During COVID-19(84) I have become much more cynical. Years ago, I would have believed the data. Now I scoff at it.
The cdc, fda, and nih have all become politicized.
Well, that’s it, then.
I know, I’ve written that before, but this time, well…
Heck, if it kills me at least I won't have to deal with Democrats where I'm going.
“The national rate suggests that more than 650,000 omicron infections occurred in the U.S. last week....”
“Scientists analyze their genetic sequences to determine which versions of the COVID-19 viruses are most abundant.”
So they did genetic sequencing on 650,000 people last week?
They are FAST!
Are they using the new in home, 5 minute, genetic sequencing tests? /s
You just can’t trust ANYTHING they say.
They = government, CDC, NIH, WHO, media, academia, et al.
So the Doctors who say that the local clinics don’t have a specific test for Omicron are wrong?
My Doctor said his clinic does not have a specific test for Omnicron.
Please provide the name of the test that they are using to tell the difference between the Common Every-Day Flu, the original COVID variant, the Delta Variant and now the Omnicron variant.
Bet you can’t!
All th hyperventlating about OMICROn cases but I don’t see anyone mentioning fatalities from the O variant. The one ingland was listed as “with” the virus.
In the last few days, my youngest daughter (college aged) has a severe cold and her vaccinated boyfriend seems to be the one who gave it to her. My oldest daughter and my grandkids visited this weekend and they are all sick and her husband’s vaccinated family have all been diagnosed with covid and have been taking care the grandkids this past week.
Guess I will find out how robust my innate immune system is. But they are not going to ‘fear me’ away from family. I am in the 50 and younger crowd - so would be excuseless to take an experimental jab.
Since it is basically a cold, that is a good thing.
The silver lining to this is people who recover from Omicron, which supposedly is a milder form of the disease, will be immune to all or most variants of Covid. In other words Omicron is doing the job of a vaccine and pushing us closer toward herd immunity.
Yee Haw! We doing it now. I’m glad our retarded politicians and Feral “judges” let those idiots from Sud Afrika bring that crap here. (Sarcasm).
One death, a guy in Houston. One.