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How omicron continues to unfold in highly vaccinated San Francisco
sfgate ^ | Jan. 4, 2022 | Eric Ting ,

Posted on 01/04/2022 11:53:42 AM PST by BenLurkin

In mid-December, San Francisco posted new daily case totals that exceeded numbers from the summer delta variant-driven wave and last winter's wave. However, two weeks later, the city's hospitalization numbers are still a fraction of what they were during the previous two waves. UCSF's Dr. George Rutherford told SFGATE that in the past, hospitalizations have tended to increase 10 days after cases started to increase.

81% of San Francisco's total population is fully vaccinated.

Health experts say that when reading reports on rising hospitalizations, another important caveat to keep in mind is the distinction between COVID-19 patients hospitalized "with" COVID-19 vs. "for" COVID-19. Wachter said that San Francisco's hospitals are not reporting whether patients are in the hospital primarily because of the disease or if they were hospitalized for another reason but were tested and found to have COVID-19.

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To: Owen

“Not just them. Pssssst. South Africa 139 dead today. Clear uptrend since pre Omicron.

The it’s-more-gentle narrative is at huge risk.”

You forgot your:

“MUHUhahahahahHAHA!”


21 posted on 01/04/2022 12:37:56 PM PST by SaxxonWoods
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To: BenLurkin

Incredible how few hospitalizations there have been among the vaccinated population. Still, there are people dying in other parts of the population and that is tragic.


22 posted on 01/04/2022 12:39:32 PM PST by babble-on
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To: BenLurkin

23 posted on 01/04/2022 12:45:01 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: dsrtsage

Nonsense, we are the control group


24 posted on 01/04/2022 12:49:28 PM PST by Persevero (You cannot comply your way out of tyranny. )
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To: dfwgator

The bathhouses are still open but probably require masks. I wish I was kidding.


25 posted on 01/04/2022 12:51:13 PM PST by Persevero (You cannot comply your way out of tyranny. )
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To: BenLurkin

In 1918 the first flu bug put a lot of people in the hospital, but killed very few. Later that year, it mutated into a deadly strain. We seem to have experienced the reverse,


26 posted on 01/04/2022 12:51:30 PM PST by montag813
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To: Persevero

Well they sure didn’t shut them down to stop AIDS from spreading, so why would they do so they stop COVID, right?


27 posted on 01/04/2022 12:54:13 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Owen
-— “Pssssst. South Africa 139 dead today.”

Days ago for Owen, I posted:

South Africa data as of 31 December 2021 —

( 91,061 COVID deaths / 59,308,690 South Africans ) x 100 = 0.154 percent

https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/region/south-africa

About 15 one-hundreths of one percent “officially” dead from the “pandemic,” the taxonomy of includes “presumed” and “assumed” and other wiggle words from the WHO — April 2020 — is what the hysteria in the big-name media is all about.

About 15 one-hundreths of one percent.

South Africa update for Owen — 4 January 2022

{ 91,312 COVID deaths / 59,308,690 South Africans ) x 100 = 0.154 percent

The new deaths did not move the percentage until one gets into the fourth decimal place.

But as to Owen's “139 dead today,” many more South Africans died than his enthusiastic telling of Covid deaths.

( 59,308,690 population of South Africa x .01 ) / 365 days in a year = an average of 1,625 deaths per day is somewhat normal.

“The it's-more-gentle narrative is at huge risk.” The tally each day tells the opposite.

Still about 15 one-hundreths of one percent.

28 posted on 01/04/2022 12:58:51 PM PST by Worldtraveler once upon a time
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To: SaxxonWoods

We all have such little time left there is none available for such things.


29 posted on 01/04/2022 12:59:19 PM PST by Owen
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— “In mid-December, San Francisco posted new daily case totals that exceeded numbers from the summer delta variant-driven wave and last winter's wave.”

The obvious conclusion is that both business travel and tourism to San Francisco should be put off. Spending money there is too risky as “new cases” await to infect the unsuspecting tourists and the lax business clientele. Beware! Stay away! A plague of cases awaits!

30 posted on 01/04/2022 1:03:16 PM PST by Worldtraveler once upon a time
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To: BenLurkin

So now the virus “unfolds.” Scary!


31 posted on 01/04/2022 4:28:40 PM PST by clintonh8r (Truth is hate speech to those who hate the truth)
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To: BenLurkin

I keep thinking that if this was a real pandemic with a real serious disease like the plague, then we would see thousands of the (drugged out or mentally disturbed) homeless dropping dead in San Francisco, LA, New York. And that would be the news day and night. Nonstop.

But it’s not.


32 posted on 01/04/2022 4:45:20 PM PST by captain_dave
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To: Owen

Can you please link to a source that shows South Africa had 139 deaths from Omicron today?

I can’t find that result anywhere. Thanks.


33 posted on 01/04/2022 5:31:06 PM PST by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (America -- July 4, 1776 to November 3, 2020 -- R.I.P.)
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To: Freedom_Is_Not_Free

You have to look more carefully. Early December Omicron was already 70+% dominant in South Africa and it’s a month later now, with it having reached 70% from 3% in about 3 weeks.

No reason to believe the growth rate would stop just because people wanted to believe Omicron is mild.


34 posted on 01/04/2022 6:42:10 PM PST by Owen
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To: Worldtraveler once upon a time

Owen is a clown. He loves the doom and terror and it has so fried his mind that he can’t even stay consistent in his fear mongering.

SA had peaks in the 800+ per day at the height of the original wave and not far from that in the height of the delta wave.

There has been plenty of time for Omicron to replicate that, but it hasn’t.

At some point, people are going to get tired of the doom predictions not coming to pass.


35 posted on 01/04/2022 9:42:07 PM PST by TexasGurl24
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To: Owen

So the answer is no, you can’t document your claim of 169 deaths in South Africa “today”, nor can you link to any source.

Got it. Thanks for playing.


36 posted on 01/04/2022 9:53:07 PM PST by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (America -- July 4, 1776 to November 3, 2020 -- R.I.P.)
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To: Freedom_Is_Not_Free

Not deaths. You can’t escape. Covid Deaths. The number is Covid deaths.

And there’s only one sort of Covid there.

Why are you doing this? It’s obvious they died of Omicron.


37 posted on 01/04/2022 10:03:47 PM PST by Owen
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