Posted on 01/04/2022 3:17:04 PM PST by BeauBo
The new omicron variant of COVID-19 has nearly made delta obsolete, as it was responsible for 95.4% of all new cases in the week that ended Jan. 1, according to CDC data released Tuesday.
It took only about a month for the new variant to displace delta, as the first case of omicron was detected in the United States on Dec. 1 and it was responsible for just 0.6% of new cases for the week that ended Dec. 4.
Omicron was responsible for 8% of cases by Dec. 11, 37.9% of cases by Dec. 18, and 77% of cases by Dec. 25...
Delta is still dominant in parts of New England and the Plains, but omicron is dominant everywhere else...
The United States reported 1,082,549 new cases on Monday, according to Johns Hopkins University, but that number may be elevated due to a backlog of cases over the holidays and weekend.
Multiple studies have shown that omicron's rapid spread may be due to the variant's ability to evade immunity offered by both vaccines and previous infection...
Vaccines are still effective against illness from omicron, according to a University of Copenhagen study (https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.27.21268278v1.full ) that found a booster shot offered 86% protection against symptoms and 98% protection against severe disease.
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This is actually very good news.
they cannot discriminate coronavirus from the flu,
nor one variant from another except with incredible
difficulty. but they “measure” to a decimal place?
BS. just like the CDC.
BS for genocide.
So “vaccines” are no longer needed then, correct?
They announced 73% a couple weeks ago. Then a few days after that, they backtracked to 23%. Now, less than a week later, it has jumped to 95%.
And they wonder why they have zero credibility!
They’re sequencing every single person that tests positive?
They don’t know that! They are just guessing and making things up!
Fauci is quiet right now...imagine he is briefing Brandon's attorneys as I write.
My daughter and I got it last week. Glad to get it during the quiet week between Christmas and New Year’s, and glad she has antibodies now and won’t get it during the school year.
(For the record, we were both vaxxed but unboosted.)
Do home tests pick it up? I am getting over bad cold after being exposed to someone positive but the home tests are negative. I never get colds.
How do it know?
Oh my goshes!
More than one million Americans have caught a cold in January!
The world is going to end.
73, 26, 95.4
Just bounces around
All they need is a statistically significant sample from a representative group.
This is what someone once called fatuous hyperaccuracy.
“My daughter and I got it last week.”
I remember you saying that you were starting to feel better. How about now?
“Do home tests pick it up?”
They are supposed to, but all tests have some error rate. I don’t know how reliable they are.
That sounds like throwing darts blindfolded.
Mid afternoon so can only project, but probably about 2000 Covid deaths today. Largest 3 death states PA, AZ, IN. All those deaths in Arizona (100, still counting for today) . . . hard to make a case for them being anything but Omicron.
South Africa death count ramping too, far higher than pre Omicron.
The Omicron-is-mild narrative is having its legs cut from under it.
I‘m having minor surgery on Monday so I have to take a rapid test on Sunday. Groan. I don‘t wanna.
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