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Leading South African doctor to Israeli TV: Far fewer deaths from Omicron than Delta
Times Of Israel ^ | TOI Staff

Posted on 12/22/2021 7:50:57 PM PST by Nextrush

A top South African doctor tells Israeli television that the Omicron variant appears much less deadly than the Delta strain of coronavirus.

"People are not dying as you have seen with Delta," Dr. Angelique Coetzee says in an interview with Kan public broadcaster. "Delta---it's totally different."

Coetzee, who heads the South African Medical Association, says cases have begun declining since December 9.

"We don't see that doubling or increase we had seen right in the beginning," she says. "Maybe it will be a different picture in the rest of the world but for now the caseloads in the hospitals are very low."...

(Excerpt) Read more at timesofisrael.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: coronavirus; covid; covid19; israel; omicron; southafrica
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What will Omicron look like down the road? In South Africa where it started cases down hospitals with low caseloads.
1 posted on 12/22/2021 7:50:57 PM PST by Nextrush
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To: Nextrush

Doesn’t matter. It will be used to lock everything down forever.


2 posted on 12/22/2021 7:53:34 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong)
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To: Nextrush

As someone else said on this forum, you need to stock up on Kleenex for the Omicron virus.


3 posted on 12/22/2021 7:56:10 PM PST by Parley Baer (go trump )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“Doesn’t matter. It will be used to lock everything down forever.”

I was just thinking if the Democrats/Biden are using Covid as a path towards the “reset” they were talking about?


4 posted on 12/22/2021 7:57:52 PM PST by Parley Baer (go trump )
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To: Nextrush

The last article I read about South Africa is that the omicron virus outbreak resulted in no deaths and mild infections. Is someone cooking the books.


5 posted on 12/22/2021 7:59:31 PM PST by elpadre ( ying them.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Getting the information out and communicating with others should be done to discredit the crackdowns underway and those to come.


6 posted on 12/22/2021 8:07:29 PM PST by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODYS BUSINESS, REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: Parley Baer

You are just now figuring this out?


7 posted on 12/22/2021 8:08:27 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong)
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To: All

SA 95 dead today. Clear uptrend.


8 posted on 12/22/2021 8:11:16 PM PST by Owen
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To: Nextrush

This story and other in today’s news summary.

https://nextrushfree.blogspot.com/2021/12/news-summary-intelligence-report_22.html


9 posted on 12/22/2021 8:11:48 PM PST by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODYS BUSINESS, REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: Owen

SA 99 dead today with a pop of 60 million.

USA 1,544 dead today with a pop of 333 million 5.5 times greater.

SA deaths at a rate equal to around 550 in the US.

SA had 21,000 plus positive tests today and that’s down from the peak some days back of over 35,000 in one day.


10 posted on 12/22/2021 8:15:50 PM PST by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODYS BUSINESS, REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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Tripled Vaxxed 4.5 Times More Likely to Test Positive For Omicron Than Unvaxxed December 22, 2021 (UK)
11 posted on 12/22/2021 8:24:02 PM PST by TigersEye (Ray Epps didn't kill himself.)
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Life Expectancy in SA is 64.8, vs 78 in the US. This is overwhelming all other effects.

They are young. They die before Omicron can get them.


12 posted on 12/22/2021 8:30:19 PM PST by Owen
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To: Nextrush

They didn’t need to skip over the Xi Variant. It was Xi from the beginning and it worked . It clinched stealing the election for his puppet to replace Trump. Imagine starting a war and few people even believing a fight has begun!


13 posted on 12/22/2021 8:32:20 PM PST by Nateman (Racism is Leftist Dog Whistle for 'Resistance to Communism'.)
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To: Nextrush

This can’t be true. President Biden said we are all maybe gonna die.


14 posted on 12/22/2021 8:36:14 PM PST by Sir Bangaz Cracka (Slamming dat white cracka'a head into dat sidewalk causin he be scared)
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To: Nextrush

Just a bit if context. That day with 35k cases included a backlog of data from the previous couple of days.

Also a comparison with our previous peak is useful. In July we had about 7000 in ICU with over 1500 on ventilators. The figures at the end of last week were about 600 in ICU with around 150 ventilated.

Another interesting point is that many who are in hospital WITH Covid were only identified when they were admitted for surgery or other medical reasons and were tested as is the norm nowadays.


15 posted on 12/22/2021 8:36:45 PM PST by Diapason
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To: Nextrush

Everyone Panic

Top 5 Omicron symptoms
—Runny Nose
—Headache
—Fatigue
—Sneezing
—Sore Throat


16 posted on 12/22/2021 8:49:34 PM PST by Bob434
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To: elpadre

the UK supposedly has 7 whole deaths now- although they are likely claiming that people who died WITH Omicron died FROM omicron, just to get the numbers up there just like they have doen with covid-


17 posted on 12/22/2021 8:51:30 PM PST by Bob434
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To: Owen

They’re dying of everything except Omicron ... 100 dead in a population of 60 million??

the fear of Omicron is clearly overblown


18 posted on 12/22/2021 9:25:52 PM PST by canuck_conservative
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To: canuck_conservative

Many days there are well under 100 deaths.


19 posted on 12/22/2021 9:40:12 PM PST by Diapason
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To: canuck_conservative

500 was their typical peak this past winter (for them) of July timeframe. The 100ish they are logging is off of a typical daily minimum of 10.

If they are trending up, in summer (for them), in such a young population, there will need to be an explanation. Of course the 500 daily covid deaths of their winter also needs an explanation (and that explanation is the young don’t die).


20 posted on 12/22/2021 9:52:08 PM PST by Owen
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