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Fauci: Omicron likely dominant in US in 'few weeks,' warns hospitals could be 'overwhelmed'
The Hill ^ | 12/16/2021 | Peter Sullivan

Posted on 12/16/2021 11:57:58 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

Anthony Fauci said Thursday that the omicron variant will likely be dominant in the U.S. in "a few weeks" and warned of the possibility of hospitals being overwhelmed this winter.

He added, though, that people who are vaccinated, and especially those who have their booster shots, will be "relatively well protected, at least against severe disease," saying he is most worried about the unvaccinated.

The omicron variant "will assume a dominant role very soon, I would imagine within a period of a few weeks to as we go into January," Fauci, the government's top infectious disease expert, said during an event hosted by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation.

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KEYWORDS: fauci; hospitals; omicron; overwhelmed
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To: ChicagoConservative27
warned of the possibility of hospitals being overwhelmed this winter

Yesterday this variant was said to be quite mild, so today Fauci changed again and hospital stays will be required?

21 posted on 12/16/2021 12:13:03 PM PST by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The hospitals have YET to be overwhelmed by Covid. It never happened. Makeshift hospitals stood empty.


22 posted on 12/16/2021 12:17:04 PM PST by youngidiot (Race is irrelevant to everyone except the racists )
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To: BenLurkin
The sky is falling, the sky is falling!

We've heard this every few weeks for the past two years. Covid, ventilators, ICU, etc. etc.

If hospitals and politicians were really that concerned about capacity they wouldn't be setting policies forcing out thousands of staff.

23 posted on 12/16/2021 12:17:28 PM PST by ThunderSleeps (Biden/Harris - illegitimate and everyone knows it.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I wish Fauci was more definate in his prediction that hospitals will be overwhelmed...given his track record on accuracy it would be a great sign that they won’t be.


24 posted on 12/16/2021 12:17:50 PM PST by AndyTheBear
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To: ChicagoConservative27

One of the London Bridges is in Lake Havasu City AZ.

Get the drift?


25 posted on 12/16/2021 12:18:28 PM PST by crz
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To: ChicagoConservative27

They must be planning on turning a bunch more loose.


26 posted on 12/16/2021 12:21:26 PM PST by DOC44 (ro)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Dog-whistling the vax-karens again to run to the hospital if they get the snifflles.


27 posted on 12/16/2021 12:28:21 PM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I don’t know why anyone trusts him anymore. He has flip-flopped and/or been wrong on every thing he has said during the pandemic.


28 posted on 12/16/2021 12:28:45 PM PST by matt04 ( )
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To: BradyLS

Excellent point. Say the sniffles is the Coof and will kill you, then make every Karen run to the ER and overwhelm the place. Just to justify more control.


29 posted on 12/16/2021 12:29:52 PM PST by matt04 ( )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

>yawn<


30 posted on 12/16/2021 12:32:01 PM PST by SkyDancer ( I make airplanes fly, what's your super power?)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Alright, alright, alright!!!

The Great Scamdemic continues on!!!

More lockdowns, shut-downs, crackdowns, and beatdowns from the Satanic federal agencies!!

More face-diapers, movement restrictions, fines, fees, and rat-poison “vaccines.”

The massive lock-outs, poisonings, murders, and mayhem will certainly continue until they “stop COVID.”

The Divine Wrath of Almighty God cannot come soon enough for all of the Satanic creatures “in charge” at the District of Corruption.


31 posted on 12/16/2021 12:43:57 PM PST by Prole ( )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Hospitals overwhelmed?

Does this mean more ticktoks of dancing nurses, and more layoffs of hosptial staff because not enough patients to pay the bills...

again?


32 posted on 12/16/2021 12:45:12 PM PST by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Whadda joke this azzclown is.
He has ZERO credibility...nada...none!
He’s not able to go out in public without a heavily-armed security detail because there are thousands, if not millions, of people that would just love to see his head on a pike for mass murdering their friends and loved ones. He wouldn’t last 10 minutes in any mall in middle America.
The best he can hope for is a quick trip thru the trap door of a public gallows.


33 posted on 12/16/2021 12:52:16 PM PST by lgjhn23 (Pray for America....)
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To: Grimmy

Hospitals always have their highest occupancy rates during the Winter months. Also, these are the months with the highest death rates (as always)


34 posted on 12/16/2021 1:01:43 PM PST by kaktuskid
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Fauci, the government's top infectious disease expert,

Even the people who believe that description of Fauci should have to admit the guy has been a total fu_k up.

35 posted on 12/16/2021 1:10:21 PM PST by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: ChicagoConservative27

My daughter told me this morning, if you rearrange the letters in

OMICRON and DELTA

You can come up with MEDIA CONTROL

Just sayin’


36 posted on 12/16/2021 1:18:26 PM PST by NEMDF
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To: BenLurkin

Hospitals don’t need to expand capacity as much as the medical community just needs to treat early outpatient to keep people from needing to go to the hospital in the first place. It’s fairly easy & cheap to do, too.

7,000 patients treated early outpatient .... 5 deaths.

Dr. Brian Tyson
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4021611/posts


37 posted on 12/16/2021 1:23:55 PM PST by Qiviut ("Don't let your children die on the hill you refuse to fight on.")
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Really, an evil spirit controls this monster.

When he mentions a “pandemic of the unvaccinated” he is, for the most part, referring to millions of school children.

Lord help us cause he wants the kids. All of them.


38 posted on 12/16/2021 1:41:58 PM PST by katie didit
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To: ChicagoConservative27

More fear porn….


39 posted on 12/16/2021 1:44:05 PM PST by Roman_War_Criminal (Jesus + Something = Nothing ; Jesus + Nothing = Everything )
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To: Qiviut

“treat early outpatient to keep people from needing to go to the hospital”

That is a feasible approach, to managing a possible (apparently now expected) surge in case numbers from Omicron.

Treatments.


40 posted on 12/16/2021 2:48:31 PM PST by BeauBo
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