"We are realizing right now monitoring the data that the peak is going to come much faster," said Ali Mokdad, a public health researcher at the University of Washington. "My guess is it will happen before mid-January."
The numbers are increasing so quickly that some public health researchers say modeling isn't even necessary to see where things are headed. "You don't even need a model for this," said William Hanage, a public health researcher at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
"The United States could also see more localized outbreaks, with cases beginning to decline in current hot spots, like New York City and Washington, D.C., just as they're beginning to take off elsewhere. That could lead to more of a rounded peak instead of a sharp turnaround".
"now the most infectious period of the pandemic."
"It's unlike anything we've ever seen, even at the peak of the prior surges of covid," James Phillips, the chief of disaster medicine at George Washington University Hospital, told CNN.
While deaths and hospitalizations are also up nationwide, they are not increasing at the rate of new cases.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky said this week that hospitalizations remain "comparatively low".
In South Africa, hospitalizations declined almost as soon as case numbers did - very little lag. In the past with COVID, hospitalization rate changes lagged about two weeks behind changes in new cases.
So, the sniffles will peak in 2 weeks! Excellent!!
Aaahhhhh…..
First day of the new year.
Sun is shining…..
Mug of good coffee…..
Let’s see what they’ve come up with now.
So it’s a pure coincidence that Omicron will “peak” just as SCOTUS is hearing the case on the vaxx mandates...
If “scientists” are predicting it, you may as well listen to your neighbor.
Just in time for cedar season allergies to start to wane.
How crazy is that? People living normal lives, feeling healthy and yet they had the big, bad virus and didn't even know it!
Omicrud peaks on 1/9 and testing stops on 1/10 and voila’ no more china virus.
From the article:
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There’s real scientific certainty for you. Gotta keep the fear porn going with all those speculations and hypotheticals.
Flurona is a dangerous mixture of coronavirus and influenza. (So they say)(More of the same bullshit!)
Hurrah, it ends 1/9! Thankfully many colleges and some schools are going virtual until at least 1/18. They are protecting the kids from a disease that is 99.9% recoverable for them. But first, many are insisting on boosters to return to campus.
I had a low grade fever and headache yesterday. How horrid! Took Lactoferrin plus Benadryl. Fever is gone and so is the congestion. Actually managed an easy run today. I am left with a bit of a lingering cough, which is awful!
Has anyone who's had testing done seen their paperwork? Has 229E shown up on any if it?
Oh goody. More science.
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