Posted on 01/02/2022 3:37:30 PM PST by lightman
White House chief medical adviser Anthony Fauci said Sunday that hospitalizations are a better guide to determining the severity of the highly infectious omicron variant of COVID-19 than case counts.
When asked by host George Stephanopoulos during an appearance on ABC's "This Week" if there should be less of a focus on daily infection numbers, Fauci said, "The answer is, overall, yes."
"This is particularly relevant if you’re having an infection that is much, much more asymptomatic and minimally symptomatic, particularly in people who are vaccinated and boosted," Fauci said. "The real bottom line that you want to be concerned about is, are we getting protected by the vaccines from severe disease leading to hospitalization?"
He did still warn that even though many unvaccinated individuals are going to get asymptomatic and mildly symptomatic cases, a "fair number" of the "tens of millions of people" who have not received any COVID shot are going to come down with severe coronavirus cases.
Fauci went on to say, "As you get further on and the infections become less severe, it is much more relevant to focus on the hospitalizations as opposed to the total number of cases."
And during a Sunday appearance on CNN's "State of the Union," Fauci said that the U.S. cannot become complacent about the virus because, while omicron is reported to produce milder cases of COVID than previous variants, there likely will still be a high number of hospitalizations.
"It’s a very interesting, somewhat complicated issue, where you have a virus that might actually be less severe in its pathogenicity, but so many people are getting infected that the net amount, the total amount of people that will require hospitalization, might be up," Fauci said, referring to omicron. "We can’t be complacent in these reports. We’re still going to get a lot of hospitalizations."
As of Jan. 1, the U.S. has a reported seven-day case average of fewer than 387,000, which, according to The New York Times database, is a 202 percent increase over the past two weeks. Meanwhile, hospitalizations saw an average of 90,000 per day, a mere 30 percent jump, while deaths dipped to a daily average of 1,240, a decline of 4 percent.
There he goes, moving the goal-posts again ....
Not when idiots are going there for asymptomatic to moderate symptoms.
No s**t, Doctor Sherlock Fauci, we’ve only known that for about 2 years. Glad to see it finally dawn on you.
The pandemic must be running out of steam for fauzi to keep changing the game like this.
Dr. Fauxcy = Dr. Obvious with a few months of delay.
Science is about prediction. Fauxcy is NOT Science.
wow... thanks captain obvious.
And for the record - my state’s ICU occupancy is above 93% with roughly 43% coming from COVID, Delta style.
I don’t see the state of the fed doing anything about this.
Dr.? “Science”.
Even a blind sow finds an acorn once in awhile.
And Dr. Fauci not only moves the goal posts again, he talks most fluently out of both sides of his mouth, and equally well from his rectal orifice.
His legal representatives include the law firm Waffle, Straddle and Backfill.
or varicoceles, knee repair, tonsilectomy, etc. and happen to get a positive result from a shoddy test.
The number of cases was used as a weapon against Trump. Now it is a liability for Biden. Hospitalizations and deaths should have been the only metrics from the beginning.
OR getting a hip replacement and staying three nights in the hospital recuperating and being moved on the fourth (final) night to the Covid section to be counted and get the hospital Covid bucks.
But the number of infections sounds much scarier. Is Fauci losing it? He’s not going to sell jabs with that attitude!
All the numbers change by the day...
Hospital numbers mean nothing...deaths might...
Ex... Kid goes to hospital with broken finger...gets tested and has covid..hospitalised as a covid case...
Where I live in Florida no one even talks about covid much anymore...
Deaths....clarify deaths properly...with?? because of....that means healthy individual whose only problem is/was covid
But never even a tad about natural immunity and herd levels.
BS.
All they will do then is hospitalize people who don’t need it to jack the numbers up again.
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