Posted on 01/07/2022 6:20:47 PM PST by BenLurkin
Despite an unprecedented spike in cases fueled by the Omicron variant, Los Angeles County hospitals are seeing far fewer critically ill coronavirus-positive patients than they did last winter.
Officials emphasize that the healthcare system still faces serious challenges because so many people are being infected, and it’s unclear how close the Omicron wave is to peaking. L.A. County ambulance services and hospitals also are contending with coronavirus-related staffing shortages as more of their workers become infected.
But the early data seem to reflect the experience elsewhere — that Omicron, while far more transmissible than the previously dominant Delta variant, also tends to cause less severe symptoms, especially in those who have been vaccinated and boosted.
The overall number of people admitted into hospitals in L.A. County for all reasons — COVID and otherwise — has actually remained stable recently. During last winter’s surge, more than 16,000 people were hospitalized for all reasons. This winter, that figure has been hovering around 13,000, according to data presented by county Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer.
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See, Biden has done better than Trump with COVID! /s
Despite?!
Omicron has always been known to be less intense.
BUT THE HOSPITALS ARE OVERFLOWING !!!!
The experts keep telling us! And demanding that we get the experimental injection!
The LA Times is as clueless about COVID as the Marxist wing of the USSC.
This is a good one.
Yeah! “Despite” — what a stupid headline written by an uninformed ignoramus.
Still, be sure to get a 4th jab...
Will be the call.
How are Flu cases running this year/season?
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This is the exact story that needs telling. As Is said in a previous thread, for the first time in this pandemic (now endemic) people are in the hospital with incidental findings of CoVID, not because of it. It is time the manic testing stops, and we thank God that the laws of epidemiology have again been repeated.
That’s because omicron is a mild head cold not the Black Death the left is desperately trying to portray it as, and wishing it were so.
And these are the folks who want to control our health care?
God help us.
It's a seriously creepy piece of propaganda.
A nurse friend in Massachusetts who heard his presentation took notes and shared his notes with me 👇👇
*Notes from a call with Edward Ryan MD, Director of International Infectious Disease at Massachusetts General Hospital*.
*This observation is for the USA but should be applicable to other countries as well with dates changed because the arrival of Omicron varies from country to country.*
1 . Close to 100% of the positive cases in MA are Omicron. Delta is almost completely gone from New England.
2 This surge will peak sometime between 1/10 and 1/21 and then begin a quick downhill journey of two to four weeks.
3 We will end up with a 20-50% positivity rate.
4 February will be clean up mode, March will begin to return to “normal”
5 Omicron lives in your nose and upper respiratory area which is what makes it so contagious. It isn’t able to bond with your lungs like the other variants.
6 The increased hospitalizations should be taken with a grain of salt as most of them are secondary admissions (i.e. people coming in for surgery, broken bones, etc. who are tested for COVID)
7 We won’t need a booster for omicron because they wouldn’t be able to develop one before it’s completely gone and we’re all going to get it which will give us the immunity we need to get through it.
8 COVID will join the 4 other coronaviruses we deal with that cause the common cold, upper respiratory infections, RSV, etc. It will become a pediatric disease mainly affecting young children with no immunity.
9 40% of those infected will be asymptomatic.
10 Rapid tests are 50-80% sensitive to those with symptoms, only 30-60% sensitive to those without symptoms.
11 Contact tracing is worthless because we’re all going to get it and there’s no way we could keep up with it.
12 We are fighting the last war with COVID and should be pivoting back to normal life, but society isn’t quite ready for it yet.
13 There is no need to stay home from work or to be a hermit unless you’re immunocompromised or 85 or older, but he does recommend staying away from large gatherings for the next six weeks.
14 Spring/Summer will be really nice!
Overall a great presentation. Lot of good news.
Officials emphasize that the healthcare system still faces serious challenges because so many people are being infected...
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And because so many qualified to fight this battle were disgracefully fired.
That’s a great post. Thanks. That information should have a thread all its own. If I wasn’t so computer illiterate I’d attempt to do it. You’d think that news like that would be all over the news channels tomorrow but somehow I don’t think it will be.
Eactly. Very few had the vaccine last Winter.
There is no Edward Ryan on the list of faculty / staff at Mass General.
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