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Many people hospitalized in the Omicron surge are there for other reasons and have only mild COVID-19
Business insider ^ | 12/31/2021 | Joshua Zitser and Kieran Corcoran

Posted on 12/31/2021 3:41:56 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27

A significant proportion of people hospitalized with COVID-19 in recent weeks were admitted for other reasons, according to health officials and government data.

The exact scale of the phenomenon in the US is not recorded in federal statistics, but has been noted anecdotally.

And Dr. Anthony Fauci, the chief medical adviser to the White House, described the phenomenon, specifically in children, in a Wednesday night interview with MSNBC.

Since all hospital admissions are tested for COVID-19, Fauci said, many are "hospitalized with COVID, as opposed to because of COVID." The real reason for hospitalization might be "a broken leg, or appendicitis, or something like that," he continued.

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


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: hospitalized; mild; omicron; surge
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

fish mask....

LOL

Finally somebody is taking this crisis seriously.

Fauci: As of Noon tomorrow we are starting my new fish mask program with all farm raised salmon and catfish....
Uh, that’s mandatory and enforced by federal law, by the way.

Reminds me of the annual deer herd culling when hunters don’t reduce it enough and vehicles in too many accidents with deer. Someone said as a gag: “We need to have employees of the Game Division place condoms on all the male deer before mating season.”


21 posted on 12/31/2021 5:04:25 PM PST by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: BenLurkin

not really. This is how pandemic deniers continue to rationalize denying a pandemic. Thereby helping out Joe.

noted anecdotally


22 posted on 12/31/2021 5:05:29 PM PST by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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To: blueplum

What pandemic?

;^)


23 posted on 12/31/2021 5:11:47 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: JustaCowgirl
My understanding is that the Omicron variant has 40 mutations from Delta.

Omicron did not mutate away from Delta. It mutated away from an earlier strain that does not have a fancy name.

Mutation counts are called divergence from the original strain. What was surprising with Omicron is the big jump in mutations in a single step. Overall, there are Delta strains as far removed from the original as Omicron.

Take a look at:

https://nextstrain.org/ncov/gisaid/global?m=div

24 posted on 12/31/2021 5:33:45 PM PST by IndispensableDestiny
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To: IndispensableDestiny

Thank you very much for that information.


25 posted on 12/31/2021 5:58:24 PM PST by JustaCowgirl (A vote for Joe Biden is a vote for empty smirking pantsuit Kamala Harris for President)
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To: joethedrummer

26 posted on 12/31/2021 8:40:48 PM PST by 4Liberty (Let's go Brandon 👏 ...👏 ...👏👏👏 https://youtu.be/qr_F_XQrukM?t=1)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Many? Try, Most. Probably 90%.

Its. A. Cold.


27 posted on 12/31/2021 11:28:03 PM PST by Basket_of_Deplorables (Convention Of States is our only hope now! Desantis 2024!!!)
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