COVID-19 is on the rise:
Test positivity is at about half the level of the big Omicron surge in January 2022. The good news is that thanks to the high rate of vaccinations and previous infections, the death rate from COVID remains pretty low:
Keep in mind that "low" is relative. COVID-19 continues to kill five times more people than the flu. Y'all stay safe out there.
The really good news it that the death rate is relatively low in spite of the fact that so few people are getting booster vaccinations and very few people, including us olds, are taking precautions like masking. I wonder what things would look like if just the vaccination rate was 80% instead of the current 12% (in California).
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Why isn't there some way to block spam and alert about it, at least after it's posted for a few minutes?
My mom, with a master's degree and former NYC teacher watches Faux News all the time and constantly complains that the vaccine doesn't really do anything. I need to remind her that at 100 years old, she needs to get the fucking booster to keep her out of the hospital and the funeral home.
Faux News, killing their viewers by the 10's of thousands.
Are there stats on positive tests, hospitalizations and deaths including unvaccinated, vaccinated but only with the original shots, and those (me) with the latest update?
Covid's fatality rate is the same as influenza. A paper published in April 2022 showed that the IFR for Omicron was 80% lower than earlier variants.
And it has been known a long time that vaccines do nothing for people over 90 years old.
Disinformation robot, it seems.
Definitely. A little more sophisticated than a typical troll.
Interesting question is who makes money from that and how.
No, the newest variant is causing five times as many deaths as the flu.
Ever hear of Google? It's been around 25 years.
"In summary, we found that the relative transmissibility of the
Omicron variant (including transmissibility due to immune escape)
could be more than three-fold higher than that of previous variants, which is in line with our previous estimate (Yu et al., 2021).
Immune evasion is the main reason for the high relative transmissibility of the Omicron variant. The reduction in the IFR of the
Omicron variant was approximately 78.7% of the IFR of previous
variants, with a 95% confidence interval (66.9%, 85.0%)"
You didn't say who is paying you.
(the claim about vaccines for over 90 is clearly intentional lie.)
Here is a study of BNT162b2(Pfizer) vaccine, showing high effectiveness for the over 85 group. (table 3)
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)00947-8/fulltext#tbl3
I said 90 and over.
And I wrote it is alie, and it is a lie.
Google has been around for 25 years. You can certainly provide the links for the over 90 year old's are not helped by vaccine statement. Also links to the comparative covid/flu death rates.
Maybe I can leave my mom alone with getting more boosters!
Links don't seem to be their thing.
We all know the Deep State controls the Internet anyway.
Save a life, maybe your own. Mask up and avoid crowds.
Serious question: with home testing far more prevalent than two or three years ago as well as considerably less availability of free PCR tests (which are far more accurate than home tests), just how much validity can we attach to the CDC's numbers?
I believe the CDC just uses the PCR test results that are forwarded to the CDC from state agencies who collect them from labs and hospitals (best guess). I tested positive in September, and my wife and son tested positive a few weeks ago (our first infections!). I know a few more friends that have tested positive in the last few weeks. Like us, all tests done at home, with no data forwarded to anyone.
The data provided by KD only shows the % positivity, based on the number of PCR tests reported. I would guess that the vast number of cases are not reported, unless they get sick enough to go to a doctor/urgent care/hospital.
I thought that the home tests result in very few false positives, but a material amount of false negatives.
The vaccines do not seem to do a very good job of preventing covid, but appear to do a pretty good job of limiting its severity. For the difference between "a bad cold" and "dead", I'm keeping up with all recommended boosters.