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

[frank ballenger]

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.”

[blueplum]

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

noted anecdotally

[BenLurkin]

What pandemic?

;^)

[IndispensableDestiny]

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

[JustaCowgirl]

Thank you very much for that information.

[4Liberty]

[Basket_of_Deplorables]

Many? Try, Most. Probably 90%.

Its. A. Cold.