Cases skyrocketing in Colorado, deaths falling, hospitalizations of people with Covid up slightly. Number of people hospitalized directly due to Covid severity not revealed.
Positivity rate 26.7%.
Omicron shown as virtually all new cases in the past week.
Omicron appears to be the fat lady singing on the pandemic.
The faster it spreads, the faster it burns out. Positive Test numbers aren’t even close to the actual cases. 4 people I personally know, got it and didn’t bother get tested.
This is the variant we needed last July.
NY is interesting. Their huge peak of Aprilish 2020 derived mostly from zero awareness and skillset. Their subways were packed with no masks. And zero effort was being taken to protect nursing homes. So the Springtime 2020 disaster in NY was right there.
But even last winter their surge was much less. No vax to speak of last Jan. Their peak was still quite low, because people are not insane and they learned things.
They also had some residual immunity from the Springtime.
Now there is vax getting old and recovery immunity getting old and NY is not insulated anymore.
And let’s just put reality on the table. Politics get zero respect in this — and because of that let’s recognize that Florida is redefining covid death somehow and yielding bizarre single digit results unmatched by Mississippi, Alabama, Texas or other deep red states regardless of population. It’s horribly deceptive. Someone has to track down what policy change happened a few months ago.