Posted on 01/06/2022 3:34:07 AM PST by blueplum
PARIS (AP) — France announced a staggering 332,252 daily virus cases Wednesday, smashing a string of recent records, as hospitals prepared drastic measures to brace for patient surges and the government strained to avoid a new lockdown.
With Europe’s highest-ever single-day confirmed infection count, France is facing an omicron-driven surge that is dominating the race for April’s presidential election and increasingly disrupting workplaces, schools and public life...
France’s weekly average of virus cases has doubled in the past 10 days...more than 72% of French ICU beds are now occupied by people with COVID-19.
The surge has prompted authorities to allow health care workers who are infected with the coronavirus to keep treating patients rather than self-isolate..
,,, French President Emmanuel Macron heightened tensions with an explosive remark that prompted widespread criticism and was seen as a campaign ploy.
The vaccine push has also prompted tensions in France’s overseas territories. Dozens of anti-vaccination protesters in the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe attacked a hospital director and other medical staff ,,,
(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...
Is it “little O”? If so, nothing to worry about.
not argued that vaccinated and recovered can catch Omi, but their risk of catching it to begin with is lower and,, but if you look at Australia, Ireland, the UK, etc etc, most of the ICU patients currently are unvaccinated Deltas who are going to have a much harder time of it.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10366795/Majority-Australias-Covid-ICU-patients-Delta-not-Omicron.html
https://www.msn.com/en-ie/health/medical/most-icu-patients-in-ireland-have-delta-variant-of-covid-19-figures-show/ar-AASsT5T?ocid=uxbndlbing
Silly. the “70% unvaxxed” was in response to a query as to the total unvaxxed ICU population in France at the moment
which the linked article gave as 70%, which sounds like a fair estimate
It was not a statement of the number of unvaccinated in the entire blooming country. geez
France has 11M cases with a 1.2% mortality rate, adjusted down positively only by advances in treatment and vaccination rate. Omi can kill but Delta kills better and it didn’t magically disappear when Omi walked onstage. It’s still maiming and killing those who roll snake eyes.
unvaccinated, breakthrough recovered and breakthrough vaccinated may all spread disease depending on their immune system function, but the protected are far less likely to get infected from any of them in the first place, as demonstrated by the very low breakthrough rate and the very high casualty rate of the unprotected prior to Omi. In the meantime, the superspreader scary story from July 2021 can go to bed now. ;)
The definition of mortality rate is properly “The number of deaths per given unit of population over a given period of time.”
I choose the total population as the "unit" and the time as "two years."
If France's population of 65,490,955 evidenced the rate you cited from whatever source you cite, the number of “official” dead would be:
( 65,490,955 x .012 ) = circa 785,891. It is reported by JHU as 125,797 over two years. It is reported by Worldometer as 124,809 over two years.
What are your calculation and data sources? Please show your work, as was said in math class.
France as of 6 January 2022
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/region/france
( 125,797 “officially Covid dead” French / 65,490,955 population of France ) x 100 = 0.192 %
Less than two tenths of one percent dead across two years of this pandemic. Case-demic now.
I doubt the testicle percentage figure is accurate. Just saying.
Didn't want to get overly technical.
The actual figure is 51% +/- 3%.
Regards,
I so enjoyed the chuckle. Perhaps this is all about a test tickle?
France is nearly 80% jabbed. Vax sure is working great, ain’t it?
the same calculation every one uses to calculate mortality since the beginning of the pandemic- deaths/cases
if it makes you feel fuzzy cozy and safe comparing deaths to the entire population’s risk, go for it. But that’s just pandemic hucksters slight of hand.
The mistake in doing that is, your feel-good calculation ignores the number of protected by acquired immunity who have lowered their risk by magnitudes. Example - mortality for 75yo unvaccinated seniors was somewhere around 800x that of an unvaccinated 30yo. That’s no longer true - vaccinated seniors reduced their risk to that of a 30 or 40yo unvaccinated - less than 1/10 their prior mortality risk.
The good news is, the mortality rate has halved in the past year, and for those admitted to ICU mortality has dropped from 40% dead this time last year to 20% ICU dead. Not because the unprotected got magically stronger, but because of advancements and clearer understanding of the disease gained over the last year. And with 97% of ICU dead being unvaccinated, the risk to unvaccinated who are in pandemic denial and run to and fro without a care actually increases with their risk-taking.
Your link references Germany’s numbers, but let’s agree on one thing first - the vaccine was developed for Alpha. Full stop. There is no specific vaccine for Omi. By sheer luck, the Alpha vaccine also works very well preventing deaths and serious illness from Delta and Omi. If there is no specific vaccine, it’s rather petty and dishonest to claim a vaccine that is doing triple-duty doesn’t work - the proof is in the pudding.
Second, everyone has a risk of catching Omi because it is magnitudes more infective than Alpha and 50x or whatever more infective than Delta. Infectivity of a virus has nothing to do with a vaccine designed for a less-infective disease, and everything to do with mutational advances in the virus. Even so, the vaccinated are well-protected from Delta and well-protected from death from Omi. Otoh, the unprotected are more likely to catch Delta, more likely to spread Delta and Omi for a longer period of time, and much more likely to die or be seriously maimed:
“... unvaccinated people had a five times greater risk of testing positive for COVID-19 than vaccinated people and a 14 times higher risk of dying.... As of Nov. 20, the incidence rate of COVID-19 was 450.91 per 100,000 for unvaccinated Americans, compared to 48.02 per 100,000 fully vaccinated Americans with the boosters. The CDC reported that the unvaccinated have a 20 times higher risk of death than the vaccinated with boosters”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/anti-vaxers-try-to-exploit-fears-mislead-people/ar-AASdaun?ocid=msedgntp
“Despite significantly older age in the vaccine breakthrough group, the odds of severe COVID-19 requiring oxygen supplementation was significantly lower following vaccination (adjusted odds ratio 0.07 95%CI: 0.015-0.335, p=0.001). PCR cycle threshold (Ct) values were similar between both vaccinated and unvaccinated groups at diagnosis, but viral loads decreased faster in vaccinated individuals. “
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.28.21261295v1.full
If you’d like to talk about ‘dangerous to your health’ you should read up on what Coronavirus does to your body - even in asymptomatics. Long covid is not a myth. 2-month hospital stays aren’t either. Of course, pandemic grifters and hucksters won’t tell you that truth because if they did, they’d be out of business overnight, now wouldn’t they? Their financial health depends on convincing folks that the disease itself is no biggie and the real dangers are hospitals and medical staff and only youtube ‘experts’ are to be trusted
My family got a quite more than adequate taste of that "shipping out" of patients due to COVID (my Mom, in my case) this time last year. She lived over an hour away from us anyway (but we could overnight at her place if necessary) -- the hospital she was sent to was another hour away.) Normally she would have been readily treated and out in ~4 days @ "her" home hospital. Instead she got an ambulance ride for $1000 (not fully covered for some arcane reason.) Plus, added deterioration (she did need quick treatment) probably added a day or two, according to the doc at the destination hospital. Again, mostly paid for by Medicare, but, who's paying for that? Plus the strain on everyone...
There must be bodies everywhere.
Since many (including most you are arguing against) also boast that COVID will in relatively modest time infect everyone (with Omicron it's looking like they may be close to correct), those you try to explain to fall into their own trap. ;-)
Name-calling is not argumentation.
So many assertions in your retort without citation of sources shows that you act for that “state agenda” of which we earlier discussed.
By mimicking the CDC and FDA, you validate Fauci, Collins, Walensky, and the Biden administration. You response is indeed :slight: of hand.
Translate France’s numbers to the YS population (and I don’t see why not) and you have >1.5 million infections per day. Probably more, as it’s highly doubtful even France tests all cases.
(I was about to post “catches all cases” but the pun is just too much!)
Agghh. “US population”
Any guesses anywhere as to what % of French cases are Delta vs. Omicron?
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