Posted on 12/31/2021 12:00:33 PM PST by SeekAndFind
We've been reporting all along that the data from South Africa, where Omicron was first announced last month to be a "variant of concern," has been hopeful. A "Breaking News" update from The New York Times on Thursday further confirmed this, with such an update being referred to as "cautious hope."
Breaking News: South Africa said health data suggested its Omicron peak had passed with no major spike in deaths, offering cautious hope to other countries. https://t.co/rCto7nPHg8— The New York Times (@nytimes) December 30, 2021
The announcement came as part of the outlets "Covid Live Updates," indicating that "South Africa says that it has passed its fourth wave of cases, and counts few added deaths."
The data cited comes from the South African Medical Research Council. Fareed Abdullah, who is the director of the Office of AIDS & TB Research there called the surge of Omicron "a flash flood more than a wave."
The South African Medical Research Center, as I covered earlier this month, had also noted that in Tshwane, a metropolitan area that includes the capital city of Pretoria, many hospitalizations with Omicron were "incidental COVID admissions," meaning the person who was admitted had the virus but was admitted for something else.
Abdullah also tweeted further good news for Tshwane.
This household seroprevalence study preprint from Shabir Madhi and colleagues shows 66% hybrid immunity in the City of Tshwane where we found decreased disease severity in our hospital. https://t.co/ry1XGeECyM— Fareed Abdullah (@fareedabdullah0) December 30, 2021
As The New York Times noted:
“The speed with which the Omicron-driven fourth wave rose, peaked and then declined has been staggering,” said Fareed Abdullah of the South African Medical Research Council. “Peak in four weeks and precipitous decline in another two. This Omicron wave is over in the city of Tshwane. It was a flash flood more than a wave.” The rise in deaths over the period was small, and in the last week, officials said, “marginal.”
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In South Africa, overall case counts have been falling for two weeks, plummeting 30 percent in the last week to an average of less than 11,500 a day. Confirmed cases declined in all provinces except Western Cape and Eastern Cape, the data showed, and there was a drop in hospitalizations in all provinces except Western Cape.
The repot noted "caveats" including reduced testing during the holidays. "And many people in the most affected area had some measure of immunity, either from vaccination, prior infection or both, that might have protected them from serious illness," it was also noted, which ought to be considered hopeful news.
As I recently covered, multiple studies from several countries have confirmed that Omicron, while more contagious, is less likely to lead to hospitalizations than the Delta variant.
Because Omicron is so contagious, cases have gone up. However, as Landon reported on Sunday, Brown University School of Public Health Dean Ashish K. Jha said on ABC's "This Week" that the surge of cases shouldn't be considered a "major metric" anymore. "But we really need to focus on hospitalizations and deaths now," he added.
Holy hell. It’s always been this way! https://t.co/mCKeDZn1vB— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) December 28, 2021
Even leftist Jennifer Rubin got on board with the concept, eventually.
Never go by anecdotal or regional outcomes. As “if you aren’t a little too fat you don’t live as long.” Then they figured out they forgot to separate smokers and nonsmokeres. Smokers were slender but died sooner than fat nonsmokers in next study.
There could be something in contaminated or non flouridated water, or sleeping on a mud floor that makes Omicron die out in Africans.
UN water website:
On a global scale, half of the people who drink water from unsafe sources live in Africa. In Sub-Saharan Africa, only 24% of the population have access to safe drinking water, and 28% have basic sanitation facilities that are not shared with other households.
As a recent Stanford Business story explains:
“...dirt floors breed mosquitos, parasites, and disease... [A] paved floor can reduce childhood diarrhea by nearly 50 percent and parasitic infections by more than 75 percent. But the problems with dirt floors go beyond hygiene. They are a fundamental indicator of enduring poverty — a daily, depressing reminder of an unfortunate person’s unchanging lot.”
RE: There could be something in contaminated or non flouridated water, or sleeping on a mud floor that makes Omicron die out in Africans.
Can you imagine of this were REALLY the case?
There would suddenly be a huge clamor from the usual suspects to take away fluoride from the water and telling everyone to follow the homeless to the mud floors.
Germany: 96% of Latest Omicron Patients were FULLY Vaccinated – Only 4% Unvaccinated
By Jim Hoft ~ Published December 30, 2021 at 12:14pm
A new study in Germany of 4,206 Coronavirus patients found that 4,020 were fully vaccinated individuals.
186 of the Coronavirus patients were unvaccinated.
The Robert Koch Institute released the information Friday.
Web results
96% Of Germans With Omicron Were ‘Fully Vaccinated,’ 28% Triple Vaxed
New data released this week shows that 96% of new Omicron coronavirus patients were apparently “fully vaccinated,” while unvaccinated people ...
Germany: 96% of Latest Omicron Patients were FULLY Vaccinated
A new study in Germany of 4,206 Coronavirus patients found that 4,020 were fully vaccinated individuals. 186 of the Coronavirus patients ...
Germany: 96% of Latest Omicron Patients were Fully Vaccinated
https://truthpress.news/news/germany-96-of-latest-omicron-patients-were-fully-vaccinated-only-4-unvaccinated/
A new study in Germany of 4,206 Coronavirus patients found that 4,020 were fully vaccinated individuals. 186 of the Coronavirus patients ...
Coronavirus: Germany’s omicron cases jump 45% in one day - DW
https://www.dw.com/en/coronavirus-germanys-omicron-cases-jump-45-in-one-day/a-60280693
About 70% of the population, or 58.9 million people, are fully vaccinated. However, owing to probable gaps in reporting, this figure may be 5% ...
96% of Latest Harmless Omicron Patients were FULLY Vaccinated
https://ussanews.com/germany-96-of-latest-omicron-patients-were-fully-vaccinated-only-4-unvaccinated/
A new study in Germany of 4,206 Coronavirus patients found that 4,020 were fully vaccinated individuals. 186 of the Coronavirus patients ...
General Jack D. Ripper : Fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous communist plot we have ever had to face.
General Jack D. Ripper : Have you ever seen a Commie drink a glass of water?
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake : Well, no, I can’t say I have.
General Jack D. Ripper : Vodka. That’s what they drink, isn’t it? Never water.
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake : Well, I believe that’s what they drink, Jack. Yes.
General Jack D. Ripper : On no account will a Commie ever drink water and not without good reason.
31 December 2021
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/region/germany
( 111,929 “official” German dead from Covid / 83,783,942 Germans ) x 100 = 0.134 % over two years since the RT-PCR for Covid was written in Berlin in January of 2020, two months before the WHO declared a pandemic using changing definitions.
One wonders what the next year's health statistics will show as the ADEs are tallied. What is certain is that Germany's less than 14 one-hundredths of one percent isn't quite the plague the media has been screaming about for two years.
In the immortal words of Emily Litella: Never mind.
And I think only 25% vaxxed.
“Peak in four weeks and precipitous decline in another two... The rise in deaths over the period was small, and in the last week, officials said, “marginal.”
That is the default template that we can expect, give or take a week or two.
I’d say we started climbing in earnest in the middle of December, so we are about two weeks in.
One big difference may be that South Africa was completely over their Delta wave, before Omicron hit. It seems that Omicron may be in addition to our ongoing Delta wave, rather than just on its own. But things look pretty good in London as well, which also still had Delta cooking off, and recently seems to have passed its omicron peak.
Amazing, how we can get what appears to be good data from other countries and often B$ from here in the USA..
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