Posted on 12/14/2021 5:58:14 PM PST by conservative98
Britain's omicron wave may be no worse than a flu pandemic, an expert has said, as the first major study into the new variant suggests it is less severe than delta.
The first real-world study looking at 78,000 omicron cases in South Africa found the risk of hospitalisation is 29 per cent lower compared with the Wuhan strain, and 23 per cent lower than delta, with vaccines holding up well.
Far fewer people have also needed intensive care from omicron, with just five per cent of cases admitted to ICU compared to 22 per cent of delta patients, the study shows.
Professor Robert Dingwall, a government Covid adviser, from Nottingham Trent University, said it was clear from the South African data that panic was unjustified. Speaking in a personal capacity, Prof Dingwall said: “The omicron situation seems to be increasingly absurd. There is obviously a lot of snobbery about South African science and medicine but their top people are as good as any you would find in a more universally developed country.
“They clearly don’t feel that the elite panic over here is justified, even allowing for the demographic differences in vulnerability – which are probably more than cancelled by the higher vaccination rate.
"My gut feeling is that omicron is very much like the sort of flu pandemic we planned for – a lot of sickness absence from work in a short period, which will create difficulties for public services and economic activity, but not of such a severity as to be a big problem for the NHS and the funeral business.”
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Leftists are trying to walk if back because their losing.
If it is spreading as fast as reported without an avalanche of hospitalizations following this is likely correct.
This guy will be “asked” to retract his statement and apologize for speaking out of turn.
The first version of this coronavirus was no worse than flu either, so why would we expect any different.
Actually, The Flu is not something to fool with.
Fauxcy apparently don’t know that.
No 💩 Sherlock.🙄
THE EVIL OMICRON HAS DEFEATED
GODZILLA!!! (Tokyo Panics...)
Et-cetera...
And he will be chastised and belittled for being a racist, homophobic, trans-hating, Christian white male.
Its NOT the flu..its actually the sniffles
I thought the original Covid was the worst, since it literally scared the flu away last winter.
Omicron is no worse than the flu... sort of like “COVID”.
There is no way to know this unless we double boost everyone and go full mask mandates, lock downs, remote schooling and curtail air travel.
It’s for the children.
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