There are no ‘reported’ major death numbers from the HUGE spike in cases…
American infection scientists’ think the same will be the case for the current American spike in cases from the Omicron Covid strain….
This would fit with the idea that viral infection spikes tend to last for several months , then burn out….
The South African government said Thursday that data from its health department suggested that the country had passed its Omicron peak without a major spike in deaths, offering cautious hope to other countries grappling with the variant.
“The speed with which the Omicron-driven fourth wave rose, peaked and then declined has been staggering,” said Fareed Abdullah of the South African Medical Research Council. “Peak in four weeks and precipitous decline in another two. This Omicron wave is over in the city of Tshwane. It was a flash flood more than a wave.” The rise in deaths over the period was small, and in the last week, officials said, “marginal.”
Some scientists were quick to forecast the same pattern elsewhere.
“We’ll be in for a tough January, as cases will keep going up and peak, and then fall fast,” said Ali Mokdad, a University of Washington epidemiologist who is a former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention scientist. While cases will still overwhelm hospitals, he said, he expects that the proportion of hospitalized cases will be lower than in earlier waves….
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In South Africa, overall case counts have been falling for two weeks, plummeting 30 percent in the last week to an average of less than 11,500 a day. Confirmed cases declined in all provinces except Western Cape and Eastern Cape, the data showed, and there was a drop in hospitalizations in all provinces except Western Cape….
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There are many caveats. The case figures might have been distorted by reduced testing during the holiday season. And many people in the most affected area had some measure of immunity, either from vaccination, prior infection or both, that might have protected them from serious illness….
Prior Covid infection does not protect against Omicron:
https://www.cnn.com/videos/health/2022/01/01/ron-desantis-covid-19-natural-infection-nr-vpx.cnn
And at least one person in the US that was previously infected by a different Covid strain has now died when they got Omicron.
Does anyone know if a person could come down with both the Delta and Omicron variants AT THE SAME TIME?
It appears that school administrators are trying desperately to keep their doors open afraid that ‘ping remote’ will lead to closing to others who would have to stay home with children….
This is causing teachers and othe school staff issues and anguish…..
Things are further screwed up with different return rules that change every day….
Omicron maybe less stronger
But the fear from Alpha and Delta IS alive and well ……
Gonna be a tough January till Omicron starts burning out…..
Add business closing and remote running again….
This while some places just keep going like there ain’t virus issues or worries
The teachers’ unions are right: their teachers shouldn’t be exposed to avoidable risk before everyone is tested.
After the fact is too late, and extra infections will just worsen staff shortages.
Yes they are DSD…
But the people at the top do NOT want shut downs since school’s also serve as baby/kids sitter’s….
And THAT would force repercussions for business’s
You enjoyed the game?
REALLY?
Yeah – do you know how long it has been that the Bears won by that much?
No…
But I’d bet it’s been a LONG DAMN time!
Last year
Who you gonna believe
Them damn Lyin teachers or Jim Jordan?
Hr says “real Americans “ ohave “moved on” from Covid.
Maybe these teachers aren’t “real Americans?”