FWIW - CDC Warns Omicron Wave Is Coming: When It Could Peak in U.S. (million cases a day?)

HEALTHLINE ^ | 12/19/2021 | Julia Ries

[Az Joe]

The Omicron variant currently accounts for 3 percent of coronavirus infections in the United States, which is up from 0.4 percent last week. The other 97 percent are caused by the Delta variant.

[Az Joe]

Omicron has taken off in New York and New Jersey, where it now accounts for approximately 13 percent of cases. In New York City, for example, the test positivity rate has been doubling every 3 days.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced Dec. 14 that the Omicron variant of the coronavirus is spreading so rapidly that it may trigger a massive wave of infections that peaks in January.

Omicron currently accounts for 3 percent of coronavirus infections in the United States, which is up from 0.4 percent last week. The other 97 percent are caused by the Delta variant.

[hardspunned]

And deaths?

[Paladin2]

Then we just have to take 330 more daze and it’s over....

[ElkGroveDan]

CDC Warns Omicron Wave Is Coming

I'd like a double helping with fries please.

[BipolarBob]

You ask too many pertinent questions.

[House Atreides]

Damn … sneezes everywhere across the continent. The horror… the horror.

Plus a day or two of feeling tired.

[2banana]

Sniffing!!!!

In winter!

[JoSixChip]

Gee, never seen anything like it. Almost like it is not natural.

[Hojczyk]

Who cares what they say anymore.....are they trading stocks on the news they put out?

[Jay W]

There’s a meme going around:

Florida: You guys are still playing pandemic?

[lightman]

“Cases” are mostly phoney-baloney allegedly postivie PCR “tests”.

Not symptomatic.

Not hospitalized.

[Az Joe]

[SoConPubbie]

Is this the same CDC that lied about Ivermectin being dangerous and ineffective?

[torqemada]

I just don’t care anymore...

[Gaffer]

And what is this this widely available, quick test that allows someone with maybe a PCR test to be diagnosed with Delta or the OMG-Omicron that doesn’t require a specific kind of lab test and laboratory to identify such strains?

[jacknhoo]

That’s a lot of runny noses. Oh no! The

[MAGAthon]

VIDEO: 6m34s: 19 Dec: Michael Smith News Australia: Great news on Omicron from Inventor of mRNA vaccine Dr Robert Malone
Inventor of mRNA vaccine platform: omicron is a Christmas present to us
Dr. Robert Malone reveals just how infectious and deadly the omicron variant is on ‘The Ingraham Angle.’
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2021/12/great-news-on-omicron-from-inventor-of-mrna-vaccine-dr-robert-malone.html

another link if the one above doesn’t work:
https://video.foxnews.com/v/6287445323001#sp=show-clips

[vetvetdoug]

A recovered Delta variant patient without the mRNA treatment should be ok exposed to the Omicron virus or infected with the Omicron Wuhan Variant. That is what logic tells me. Am I wrong?

[MAGAthon]

19 Dec: Hindustan Times: Why breathing difficulty is unlikely a symptom of Omicron variant, AIIMS doctor explains
Omicron variant is multiplying in the throat and not in the lungs and hence severe pneumonia is unlikely a symptom of Omicron variant
by Poulomi Ghosh; with agency inputs
With a sharp spike in the number of Omicron cases recorded in India in the last few days, the total tally of Omicron cases is nearing 150 even before a month of the variant first getting detected in India. The number also depends on the number of samples being sent for genome sequencing as health experts have pointed out that genome sequencing is not a diagnostic tool, it is a surveillance and pandemic assessment and tracking tool. “We can assure sufficient systematic sampling is being undertaken,” Niti Aayog (health) member Dr VK Paul said.

Symptoms of Covid infection by this variant also hold a key to better understand the variant as its symptoms are quite different from Covid infection triggered by Delta.

Explaining the difference, AIIMS’ Dr Punnet Musra, professor of community medicine, said it is natural that different variants will have different predominant symptoms. Omicron does not cause breathing trouble as unlike the previous variants, this variant is probably not multiplying in the lungs. Hence, its impact on the lungs is minimal. As cases from all across the world indicate that throat is somewhat getting affected, it is likely that the variant is multiplying in the throat. One is unlikely to get severe pneumonia by Omicron, the doctor said...
https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/why-breathing-difficulty-is-unlikely-a-symptom-of-omicron-variant-aiims-doctor-explains-101639873292097.html

[rktman]

omiCON!