Posted on 03/15/2022 2:56:33 AM PDT by blueplum
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea had its deadliest day yet of the pandemic on Tuesday, with 293 deaths reported in the latest 24 hours, as the country grapples with a record surge in coronavirus infections driven by the fast-moving omicron variant.
...South Korea has reported a daily average of around 337,000 new cases in the past seven days, including 362,283 on Tuesday, representing more than an 80-fold increase from levels seen in mid-January, when omicron emerged as the dominant strain. The country’s caseload is now over 7.2 million...
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
The AP is garbage news.
sk has roughly 52 million people. 298 people died *with* the Rona yesterday, not necessarily FROM the Rona.
Fauci isn’t that busy. Can’t he take a break from telling Ukraine that the war will be over sooner if they double mask to offer South Korea the protection his lies provide?
Strange since Omicron has proven far less deadly than the other variants in the West.
Ummm...excuse me. We are doing Ukraine now, not Covid.
Carry on
Ap is worse than fake news.
With 6 billion population and a 70 year average life span this old world needs to loose 23,483 people every day. South Korea is no exception.
The ap also declared sleepy joeflation falsely president elect in the faces of a majority that still knows better.
Even mild Omicron can kill if you have diabetes, are fat, have bad heart or lungs or getting chemo, or smoke
“Life’ll kill you.” — Warren Zevon
So, roughly 340,000 new cases every day and roughly 230 deaths every day. Do the math.
This is just another thing that may or may not kill you. And the risk seems pretty low.
Asia is having its Omicron wave.
Some places in Asia have already passed their peaks, but the one’s like South Korea and China, who held it off through strict social controls, are toward the end of the pack.
The bottom line is that Omicron is just too infectious to contain, and it is going to have its run.
Not a surprise at all. All COVID response has been defensive, not offensive. This means that EVERYONE will eventually get exposed to the virus. Those nations that did well last year are paying for it now. Natural immunity has always been the solution, and gloves and masks are merely useful to flatten the curve so that health services do not get overwhealmed, as was Trump’s original plan.
You’re correct.
However….those who’ve taken the jab are most susceptible - to this and other corona viruses.
South Korea is 92% jabbed.
What should be a nothingburger, to those with natural, God given immunity, is now threatening, to those with compromised (the more jabs, the more compromised) immune systems.
We were warned about this, early on in this ScamDEMic, by real and honest docs and scientists.
So much for Putin ending COVID.
:-)
Do you suppose supply chain issues will hinder their (XiDone/DS) printing of mail in ballots supplies?
Yah, infections are totally without meaning — it is deaths that matter. All follow-on evolutions are more contagious but less dangerous. Been that way since forever with virii.
And, if they are conflating “dying with” with “dying of”; they are just lying.
Omni2 (BA.2) seems to have more immunity suppression devices and is more easily transmitted than Omni1. I’ll try to find the preprints being mentioned but for now, here’s the search results at biorxiv:
https://www.biorxiv.org/search/BA.2
Japan/India says it’s more deadly; WHO says it’s ‘not mild’ and “Covid subvariant ‘Omicron BA.2’ as deadly as Delta” is an emerging headline, as described in MINT.com article:
“new lab studies have revealed that Omicron subvariant BA.2 could cause severe illness like Delta... the Japanese team has identified are - BA.2 may have features that make it capable of causing serious illness, it shows immune escape properties just like sub-variant BA.1. Further stealth Omicron is resistant to treatments like sotrovimab, the monoclonal antibody...The researchers said although BA.2 is considered as an Omicron variant, its genomic sequence is heavily different from BA.1. “And, this suggests that the virological characteristics of BA.2 are different from that of BA.1,” they added....He also pointed out that being infected with BA.1 creates immunity against the subvariant, but not BA.2. “
https://www.livemint.com/science/health/worrisome-omicron-ba-2-can-be-as-severe-as-delta-shows-covid-lab-experiments-in-japan-read-here-11645272987477.html
https://www.medindia.net/news/more-deadly-than-omicron-stealth-omicron-205931-1.htm
unlike BA1, which is more upper respiratory I think?, BA.2 goes for the lungs like Delta did:
“BA.2 Omicron Subvariant Can Damage Your Lungs...”
https://www.thehealthsite.com/news/ba-2-omicron-subvariant-can-damage-your-lungs-cause-more-severe-disease-than-you-can-expect-study-864787/
(Dutch study - rate of spread)
“the secondary attack rate, which measures the probability of transmission of the virus to household members, was 39% for BA.2 and 29% for BA.1.”
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/omicron-subvariants-ba-1-vs-ba-2-what-the-latest-data-says#BA.2-seems-to-be-more-transmissible
(What are our defenses?)
“Sotrovimab was one of the few monoclonal antibodies that retained neutralizing activity against this variant...Recent studies have shown a significant decline in the neutralizing activity of sotrovimab against the BA.2 variant. The AstraZeneca antibody combination Evusheld and the Eli Lily antibody bebtelovimab are two authorized antibodies that still retain activity against both BA.1 and BA.2 variants.
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/omicron-subvariants-ba-1-vs-ba-2-what-the-latest-data-says#BA.2-can-evade-immunity-but-not-completely
there’s also a BA.3 in the pipeline, but I haven’t found any info on that variant:
“Moreover, since it emerged, scientists have categorized Omicron’s subvariants or lineages into three groups: BA.1, BA.2, and BA.3....”
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/omicron-subvariants-ba-1-vs-ba-2-what-the-latest-data-says
230 dead a day right now. Hospitalizations/deaths lag cases by 2-4 weeks, given a 30-day average cycle of infection to death. Figure 1-10% maybe? of the daily 340,000 cases are hospitalized, 1-10% of hospitalized to ICU daily, and 20% of ICU dead daily (Delta avg). With a variant that we can’t knock down as easily as we did Delta with monoclonals, does 1% hospitalized (or treated remotely from home) seem optimistic? (see my post above)
The problem that has arisen with the 2020 argument of “ Natural immunity has always been the solution,” is that these latest variants don’t necessarily convey immunity to anything. Delta doesn’t protect against BA.1, BA.1 can be caught more than once and BA.1 doesn’t prevent infection from BA.2.
Also to consider, a small percentage of recovered infected, even assyms or mild cases, will develop some sort of medical problem following recovery: psychiatric issues (brain fog/’roadrage’ type anger or abrupt mood swings, etc), circulatory, pulmonary, immune issues, etc. As the number of recovered increases, so does the number of individuals experiencing after-effects.
Here’s an article that discusses immune issues seen in Sweden following infection (presumably from Delta). Spoiler - these issues seem to abate after a year:
https://gizmodo.com/mild-covid-19-linked-to-increased-inflammation-in-cells-1848651100
Bottom line is I really don’t worry about it. They’re all sorts of things out there that can kill you and this is just one of them. Heck my wife and I nursed her sister back to health when she had covid fairly seriously a few months ago. We never even got it. We trust in the Lord and we eat carefully and take supplements. We’re doing just fine. Until the Lord decides it’s time to take us.
To court the upon sir paul, to live as Christ and to die is gain.
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