Posted on 12/29/2021 6:57:04 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Contrary to online claims, the Omicron variant of COVID-19 does not have a 100% survival rate, as some social media users suggest. The variant identified by the World Health Organization as a variant of concern on November 26, 2021, has been a contributing factor in worldwide deaths.
A misleading statement published to Facebook, which reads: “The survival rate for Omicron currently is 100%! You’re statistically more likely to die from literally anything else” is viewable here
Similar posts are visible here and here .
According to the guidance (here ) from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), public health officials are still learning about the Omicron strain. Factors such as transmissibility, severity, and how well available vaccines and medications work against Omicron are still being studied.
While initial reports ( here , here ) spoke of the milder symptoms associated with the disease, Reuters reported on Dec. 21 that Omicron infections appeared to be as severe as previous variants ( here ).
There have been COVID-19 deaths linked to the Omicron variant.
Reuters coverage of deaths attributed to Omicron in the United Kingdom can be seen here . According to the Dec. 22 report, 129 people are hospitalized and 14 died, per an announcement from junior health minister Gillian Keegan.
In Israel ( here ), a hospital confirmed the first known death in the country of a patient with the Omicron variant of COVID-19, who is said to have suffered from several serious pre-existing conditions. The death of an unvaccinated Harris County, Texas man surfaced on Monday, Dec. 20 (here) and is reported to be the first U.S. death attributed to the Omicron variant.
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Gotta’ keep those masked, robot minions cowering in fear.
FEAR is the greatest ally of the socialists.
Well, doesn't the CDC still 'guideline' the use of masks to save humanity? And never climb past the third rung of a step ladder?
The common cold doesn’t have a 100% survival rate.
Alec Baldwin has killed more people than omicron….
Israelis should be sensitive to medical experimentation.
If an institution or situation isn't absolutely perfect it must be destroyed.
Then they can rebuild it as a socialist utopia.
There was no death though. I’ve only seen two reported deaths and both were later proven false.
14 Omicron “dead” in the UK?
Now even if that were true, that would place it lower than almost every serious disease out there. And we don't shut down countries because of these other diseases.
Cancer UK:
“Cancer mortality
There are more than 166,000 cancer deaths in the UK every year, that's more than 450 every day (2016-2018). In females in the UK, there were around 77,800 cancer deaths in 2018. In males in the UK, there were around 89,000 cancer deaths in 2018.”
Heart disease:
“Heart and circulatory diseases cause a quarter of all deaths in the UK; that's more than. 160,000 deaths each year – or one death every three minutes.”
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RE: The common cold doesn’t have a 100% survival rate.
We know that. But I still can’t find official average death figures from the common cold anywhere.
I hate to be the one to spoil the party... but cancer and heart disease are NOT CONTAGIOUS, so citing them does nothing to assuage anyone.
I’m still trying to figure out how they can tell Delta from Omicron
And that was my point. I find it difficult to believe that a credible statistical analysis of any value can be done from data as it exists through what I’d call a filtered, haphazard reporting system - all from a variant that only showed up a month ago in Africa... My belief is that these ‘detections of Omicron’ being reported on as gospel are nothing more than subjective diagnoses of unspecified rigor.
Yup.
Like they created mindless mass murders in the big Dem run cities when President Trump was in power and its gotten far worse under Dementia Joe With 13 big Dem run cities setting new murder records this year already. .
Reuters Fact Check
LOL.
5.56mm
they are more likely to die from the consequences of the vaccine than from Omicron
Well, there's your problem right there.
Yeah if you get hit by a car and you had covid will say you died of covid
14 out of 7.9 billion is still zero.
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