False - Omicron is still FAR from lethal - with seasonal flu FAR more “deadly”.
Further - didn’t China vaccinate everyone?
Oh - and virologically speaking - just a few days after lifting the “zero COVID” mandates - is not enough time for a sudden massive wave of new cases to bring massive death.
Thebattman: Further - didn’t China vaccinate everyone?
China’s home vaccine was inferior to what the West had. Xi would have lost face if he used a “sub human” brand from the West that would show up China.
Even Russia said the Chinese vaccine was worthless and used their own.
“False - Omicron is still FAR from lethal - with seasonal flu FAR more “deadly”.
Not true. People are dying from Omicron every day. In the past 2 weeks the number of daily deaths in some NE areas has increased by almost 50%. NJ is seeing close to 20 COVID deaths a day which is way above the typical 6-7 a day we had been seeing for the past two months.
Now 20 a day is not the end of the world (unless you are one of them) but it is a pretty dramatic increase over the typical death rate.
“False - Omicron is still FAR from lethal - with seasonal flu FAR more “deadly”.”
flu deaths are between 12-40K/yr
otoh, “No week of the omicron wave saw more deaths than the week of Jan. 30 to Feb. 5. More than 18,400 deaths were recorded, according to NBC News’ tally.”
elderly and black middle-aged hit hardest/south and southeast with higher average death rate
https://www.nbcnews.com/data-graphics/seven-days-18000-deaths-look-omicrons-deadliest-week-rcna22874
“Further - didn’t China vaccinate everyone?”
iirc, China vaccinated the younger folks mostly and mostly urban residents (party members/office and factory workers). Elderly not so much. Also not so much the rural population which is a huge population chunk. They insisted on using their homegrown vaccine, which, last look, was about 40% protective. I wouldn’t be surprised to see a few million rural dead given that China has experienced food and medicine shortages for some time