Posted on 12/22/2021 2:15:52 PM PST by nickcarraway
Omicron cases have an approximately 15 to 20% reduced risk of hospitalisation compared to the previous Delta variant, researchers from Imperial College London said on Wednesday.
There was also a reduced risk of a longer hospitalisation stay, with Omicron cases 40-45% less likely to be hospitalised for one night or more.
The report looked at all PCR-confirmed Omicron cases in England in the first two weeks of December.
The estimates suggest that reinfection cases have a 50-60% reduced risk of a hospitalisation, the statement from Imperial College London said.
Yet the rapid spread of Omicron means that large numbers of infections could still lead to a high number of hospitalisations.
"Given the high transmissibility of the Omicron virus, there remains the potential for health services to face increasing demand if Omicron cases continue to grow at the rate that has been seen in recent weeks," said Professor Neil Ferguson, director of Imperial’s MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis.
A previous report from Imperial College London estimated that the risk of reinfection with the Omicron variant is 5.4 times greater than that of the Delta variant.
Figures from a Scottish pre-print study were also promising and suggested that Omicron is associated with a two-thirds reduction in the risk of hospitalisation compared to Delta.
The researchers said that booster doses offered substantial additional protection against symptomatic Omicron as well.
A separate study in South Africa, meanwhile, said that Omicron cases had a reduced risk of hospitalisation and of severe disease when compared to earlier Delta-infected individuals. But some of these results were attributed to high population immunity from previous waves of the virus.
Battle of the “studies” in progress...
Someone please let FRAUDci and FJBs handlers know about this.
Further confirmation that Omicron is COVID’s last hurrah.
PCR tests CANNOT confirm Omicron.
I was consulting with my immunologist yesterday and she said this is totally expected. The virus trajectories are always toward greater infectiousness and lower mortality. That’s how they optimize for their “success.” Too deadly and the hosts all die. Not infectious enough and they die out. They always find the sweet spot. There are over SIX MILLION variants of COVID-19 identified. We always focus on variant du jour which is the most successful.
Bad news for Demarrhoids.
Does the Imperial College and Neal Ferguson have an ounce of credibility left?
But Biden told us yesterday that the variants are more deadly! Are you saying your immunologist knows more about viruses than Joke™️??!!?
That only means that there is not nearly enough hysteria
“PCR tests CANNOT confirm Omicron.”
Now that Omicron has been sequenced, yes PCR tests can confirm Omicron by way of a marker on the test that only Omicron can produce. I’ll be posting Colorado’s Omicron incidence today when it gets posted.
As of yesterday .07% of new Colorado cases were Omicron.
I told her she was wrong and she should listen to Joe. She fired me as a patient.
(just kidding)
Genomic testing confirms a variant.
If they’re using PCR, they’re making a WAG.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/index.htm
Looks like we’re doing great. CA deaths last week covid related at all time low.
“Genomic testing confirms a variant.
If they’re using PCR, they’re making a WAG.”
Genomic testing showed that Omicron, (and only Omicron) activates a certain marker on the PCR test, otherwise they wouldn’t have known.
ROTF LMAO
Even the pandemic won’t play along any longer.
Omicron was a lucky accident.
A small sample of cases are randomly Genomic sequenced, and the incidence of variants is estimated from those samples. The discovery of Omicron’s marker on the PCR test was just a piece of luck.
Most states have been following the incidence of multiple variants for a long time, with no fanfare. (Apparently very few actually go look at their state’s site.) Most variants die off without reaching enough numbers to bother about.
This isn’t some big deal, it’s normal virus behavior.
“Given the high transmissibility of the Omicron virus, there remains the potential for health services to face increasing demand if Omicron cases continue to grow at the rate that has been seen in recent weeks,” said Professor Neil Ferguson, director of Imperial’s MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis”
This is the same maroon that predicted 5,000 people a day would die by Christmas if the govt didn’t lock down. That was about 10 days ago.
He should be tarred and feathered and run out of London.
If you can share the link to the colorado variants, you would be doing me a big favor.
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