COVID hospitalizations are continuing to plummet everywhere:
I'm not sure why France is such a laggard, but even their hospitalization rate is declining rapidly. Within a couple of weeks, the US hospitalization rate should be at an all-time low.
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Can someone please explain to me why Delta has disappeared?
Does Omicron give immunity for Delta?
Or is there something obvious I am missing?
How many comments consist of just four questions?
One could infer that the Omicron variant shit the bed and ruined the party for all COVID going forward by handing out immunity like candy. But I say this with no evidence, I’m just spitballing
Another option could be that Omicron crowded out the COVID market and once it recedes (if Omicron does not give immunity) that Delta and others will return. But this is also said with no backing evidence
Yes, omicron gives good immunity to delta but not delta to omicron.
Gonna assume you mean an all-time low post COVID
So is this what “beating COVID” looks like? Is there a point where this slow burn finally fizzles down to essentially nonexistent?
If another variant pops up you’ve gotta assume that’s a no but with such low viral presence in most communities I would think mutation chances are slimming
The Atlantic nailed it imo. It's going to be like smoking that kills 480,000 Americans each year (includes second hand smoke). Coronavirus will probably end up similarly.
Most of the country is either fully vaxxed or has recovered from omicron, so this isn't surprising.
Still, an average of 1500 people a day are still dying from this thing and we're just a few weeks away from officially crossing the one million death mark from the entire pandemic. (We almost certainly have unofficially crossed it already due to significant undercounting of Covid-related deaths, particularly earlier in the pandemic).
Less than that. Reporting lags. Will down to nothing by April.
Expected considering rate of hospitalization vs. infections with Omicron and vaccinations.
Infections still high across most of the country, though mostly still dropping (Don't know what's going on in MT). A few states down to moderate levels of spread.
Not sure when/if deer will hit herd immunity. Spreading amongst them--some evidence of crossover back to humans (not definitive). Right now, the disease in deer seems to be mild in deer--or more precisely, I've not seen reports of high mortality.
They're dropping in Montana, too. But we have lousy vaccine coverage and a governor who singed laws preventing public health officials from really doing anything. He also refused to let the DPHHS promote vaccinations among kids. Our daily case rate didn't peak until the end of January and we are still a long way from last year's mid summer lows.
It's a freedom loving red state. Could you expect anything else? At least we aren't Idaho.
Even mild Covid is linked to brain damage, scans show,
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/long-covid-even-mild-covid-linked-damage-brain-months-infection-rcna18959
& the people now most likely to get COVID don't have much brain capacity to spare!
Are you saying people with diabetes or high blood pressure or immune system disorders are all stupid? this is gross!
Cue right-wing anti-vaxxers saying "See- we told you it was all made up hype!"
While still accusing China of causing millions of death by deliberately spreading Covid worldwide- consistency is not a big thing for MAGAts.
Nope. Everybody predicted this would happen in late December. Your making up fantasies. Nobody cares about them, period. It was a dead movement from the start.
When you post, please try to make a honest assessment.
We have heard similar statements after every wave so far: "We are almost out of the wood, just a few more weeks." What gives anybody the confidence that this time it will be for good and we can "switch" to an endemic situation.
BTW what is the plan for "endemic"? Nobody says (Ca governor Newsome says he has a plan; it seems to be 1. Push vaccines (good luck!), 2. No masks, 3. Trust in God).