Posted on 12/14/2021 7:31:25 AM PST by House Atreides
The Omicron variant is starting to eat into Delta’s dominance in the United States.
The new variant accounted for 2.9% of sequenced Covid-19 cases in the United States in the week ending Dec. 11. The week before, 0% of cases were from Omicron. Delta accounted for essentially all of the other sequenced cases, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The new figures, updated Tuesday, indicate that Omicron started circulating before that week, given how long it can take for infections to be sequenced and reported. They show that Omicron’s advantage over the highly transmissible Delta variant is becoming noticeable in this country.
The figure is likely to increase dramatically, given the pattern in other countries. When better-spreading variants enter a new area with other viral iterations circulating, it can take weeks for them to account for even a few percent of all cases. But from there, their prevalence can skyrocket.
This week, virus trackers in Washington state said that clues from testing results suggest Omicron is rapidly on the rise there. In a tweet Tuesday, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said Omicron was accounting for about 13% of sequenced cases in New York and New Jersey….
…Experts have said it appears Omicron is taking over faster than Delta did as it became dominant globally earlier this year.…
… Omicron appears to get its spreading advantage over Delta in large part because it is better at circulating among people who’ve been vaccinated or had previous Covid-19 cases. It might also get a boost from intrinsically being more effective at transmitting…
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Let’s celebrate Omicron’s (so far) mildness. It certainly doesn’t justify the restrictions the left wants to reimpose.
Yawn.
More fear porn from the fascists.
Is the virus killing itself off through these mutations....looks like it. I think people go to the hospital much sooner than earlier on accounting for the surge in hospitalizations. Wonder what the turn around is. Would like to know days spent in the hospital.
Uh oh.
Marketshare fight!!!
Indeed. That viruses attenuate into milder, moving to milder and yet more mild is fine news.
With it the Left's restrictions should attenuate? But will the mini-fascists locally and globalists internationally wage a last gasp attack before retreat?
“… More fear porn from the fascists.”
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Hell, I consider it GOOD NEWS when a milder variant out competes a more severe variant. It actually should help relieve fear.
The web browser market share war started again?
Who knew?
Surely, you jest?
None of it ever did
The king is dead.. Long Live The King!
FEAR, FEAR, FEAR-— for all the dumba@@es who cannot read and understand what these a@@holes are doing.
Whoopee— overtaking the deadly “Delta” Spike protein variant with a mutated, and less infectious virion content virus—that is, the virus itself— if it EVEN is covid, and not being called “a coronavirus” (which would be... the flu)- a virion component that has also mutated to a minor symptom illness, highly treatable, and low to no death in over 995 of the (horrors!) “more cases”.
Tiresome little tyrants these well paid Faucshistis!
But how could that be when it just got here a week ago? We are fed nothing but lies.
At the moment, bathtubs are killing far more people per day than the covid variants.
You’ll never hear it from the vax mongers.
This is great news. And as I said on another thread I think this is what is working it’s way through the NFL.
“Indeed. That viruses attenuate into milder, moving to milder and yet more mild is fine news.”
Just like the Spanish flu that disappear after three years.
For the week ending 10 December, US COVID cases shot up 37%.
That might significantly be because of Omicron already on the move, ahead of the surveillance test reports (seasonality is another possible factor).
It is on track to be dominant in London, Norway and Denmark this week. It should be in the USA around Christmas.
So far, it looks much less severe than Delta (likely is), even though Omicron also produces large viral loads.
South Africa is believed to have a higher % of its population who have been previously infected by COVID (maybe 80%), and about 40% are fully vaccinated (most more recently). They have a younger population, and around 15% of adults are HIV positive. They did not have the kind of extended lockdowns and distancing like the UK and USA (although they had a very dramatic but brief lockdown when Delta really surged in Durban).
The UK will be a better model for the USA, with more similar age distribution, and percentages of previous infection and vaccination. But they are only about a week ahead. Johannesburg may already be past peak for their Omicron wave, but their Delta wave ended much quicker than the UK or USA as well.
Everyone who has not had their COVID yet, should stock up on their self treatments and snack foods.
We have talked a lot about zinc, vitamin D and C, and quercetin (to stand in for for Hydroxychloroquine, to shuttle zinc into the cells). Ivermectin, although a prescription drug, is also widely recommended. Other over the counter products with known effects against COVID and its side effects, include a large dose (10mg) of melatonin before bed, Pepcid (famotidine, given to President Trump, along with the antibody infusion and melatonin to treat his COVID), aspirin, lactoferrin and Benadryl (the last two reported to be especially effective together). I also stock tonic water - a liter has about the quinine activity of a hydroxychloroquine pill.
Always be prepared.
Not at all. In fact by mutating to a virus that is more contageous but less deadly, it is increasing its survivability.
It's turning into a virus nobody should care about.
Oh no, this can’t be. We are doomed.
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