COVID-19 Megathread 6: Return of the Omicron

[Doomer]

https://twitter.com/ehananoki/status/1487450030847971332

Laura Ingraham (and Fox News) helped kill this man, and countless others. Words fail at conveying just how utterly, deeply vile America's political right has become.

Isn’t she the one who did a Nazi salute not so long ago?

[Banana Republican]

You still have to wear a mask in any Las Vegas casino.  
You can’t claim America is a free country while this is true.

lmao, that's the most hilarious thing I've read this week

[MATTROSE94]

You still have to wear a mask in any Las Vegas casino.  
You can’t claim America is a free country while this is true.

I would rather not visit Las Vegas anyway due to the fact that it is becoming a increasingly pro-Trump city.

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

You still have to wear a mask in any Las Vegas casino.  
You can’t claim America is a free country while this is true.

Not if you take up smoking! Then my rights do extend to your lungs.

[Donerail]

Governor of California attended an indoor event w/ ~75,000 other people, maskless, in the company of at least one immunocompromised person. Mayors of SF & LA were in the same box, also maskless. Kids are wearing N95s on the playgrounds.

[DINGO Joe]

So, what's causing the high body count at this point, do deaths really lag so much that it's Delta or is it Omicron offing everybody

[Bandit3 the Worker]

So, what's causing the high body count at this point, do deaths really lag so much that it's Delta or is it Omicron offing everybody

It's a lag from Delta.

[DINGO Joe]

So, what's causing the high body count at this point, do deaths really lag so much that it's Delta or is it Omicron offing everybody

It's a lag from Delta.

Well, that's a big damn ass lag.  Any link or just conjecture?

[Bandit3 the Worker]

So, what's causing the high body count at this point, do deaths really lag so much that it's Delta or is it Omicron offing everybody

It's a lag from Delta.

Well, that's a big damn ass lag.  Any link or just conjecture?

It would have to be, because Omicron just isn't very deadly.

[DINGO Joe]

So, what's causing the high body count at this point, do deaths really lag so much that it's Delta or is it Omicron offing everybody

It's a lag from Delta.

Well, that's a big damn ass lag.  Any link or just conjecture?

It would have to be, because Omicron just isn't very deadly.

Lol, OK Mr. Science.

[Zohranism is OUR future]

So, what's causing the high body count at this point, do deaths really lag so much that it's Delta or is it Omicron offing everybody

I mean a lot of people still got infected. Even if the mortality rate is lower, that doesn’t mean raw deaths will be.

[DINGO Joe]

So, what's causing the high body count at this point, do deaths really lag so much that it's Delta or is it Omicron offing everybody

I mean a lot of people still got infected. Even if the mortality rate is lower, that doesn’t mean raw deaths will be.

That is a valid point, though there does seem to be a smaller pool of people that any form of Covid should be deadly too.

[Can't Bear]

So, what's causing the high body count at this point, do deaths really lag so much that it's Delta or is it Omicron offing everybody

Of course, it's Omicron.

Source: Data from CDC and Algebra  

[Can't Bear]

By the way, cases peaked at ~Jan 14h which means that deaths #'s likely will peak this weak.

[Pericles]

Omicron at the moment is a bad trade because cases have increased more than its virulence has reduced compared to Delta. However, cases are clearly falling so in the long-term the death toll from Omicron should be lower.

[compucomp]

So, what's causing the high body count at this point, do deaths really lag so much that it's Delta or is it Omicron offing everybody

It's a lag from Delta.

Well, that's a big damn ass lag.  Any link or just conjecture?

It would have to be, because Omicron just isn't very deadly.

This can't be right, CDC says that as of the first week of January 96% of cases are Omicron, that week the national average of cases was about 600K, so about 24K Delta cases per day cause most of the current 2.5K deaths per day? That is totally out of sync with the September Delta peak of 160K daily cases and 1.9K daily deaths. Omicron is clearly driving the current death spike.

[emailking]

So, what's causing the high body count at this point, do deaths really lag so much that it's Delta or is it Omicron offing everybody

It's Omicron.

[emailking]

So, what's causing the high body count at this point, do deaths really lag so much that it's Delta or is it Omicron offing everybody

It's a lag from Delta.

No it's Omicron.

[Oakvale]

https://twitter.com/JakeLahut/status/1488228955568185348

Utterly based. This should unironically be the Biden administration's message.

[Can't Bear]

https://twitter.com/WCVB/status/1483673845479481348

Massachusetts officials announced Tuesday updated school COVID-19 testing options, including weekly at-home rapid tests weekly, as new data on pooled testing and Test and Stay programs show very few positive cases and low transmission rates.

“The data from over a year’s worth of pool testing shows that school is an extremely safe place for educators and kids,” Gov. Charlie Baker said. “The data from our Test and Stay program confirms without a doubt that in-school transmission is extremely rare, far more rare than transmission that is happening outside of school.”

[Banana Republican]

However, cases are clearly falling so in the long-term the death toll from Omicron should be lower.

Unfortunately, that is probably incorrect because:

a) People will get (and already are getting) re-infected, and it does not appear to be the case that reinfections have a greatly lower fatality rate or morbidity rate as compared to initial infections. Partial immunity from antibodies seems like it may wane faster than with Delta, and there have been some studies suggesting that T cells don't provide strong or relatively long lasting immunity from an omicron infection unless it severe.

b) The fact that it is more contagious and infecting more people means that there are more hosts within which additional future variants can evolve, further increasing the probability that additional new variants which further evade prior immunity both from infection and from vaccines evolve.

The central problem is that immunity is short-lived. Unless and until something changes with respect to that, we are going to keep having additional waves over time.

[Bandit3 the Worker]

Recent deaths in Florida have been very, very low. That's another indicator that the continuing deaths probably are Delta.

[Banana Republican]

Recent deaths in Florida have been very, very low. That's another indicator that the continuing deaths probably are Delta.

lol Mr Scientist (that's a great nickname for you)




https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/florida-covid-update-seven-day-death-average-is-the-highest-recorded-since-october/ar-AATldQz

Florida COVID update: Seven-day death average is the highest recorded since October

Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald - 41m ago

Florida on Monday reported 34,204 COVID-19 cases and 618 new deaths to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to Miami Herald calculations of CDC data.

The CDC backlogs cases and deaths for Florida on Mondays and Thursdays, when multiple days in the past had their totals changed. In August, Florida began reporting cases and deaths by the “case date” and “death date” rather than the date they were logged into the system.

Of the deaths added, about 98% occurred in the past 28 days and about 63% in the last two weeks, according to Miami Herald calculations of CDC data.

In the past seven days, the state has added 180 deaths, on average, the highest recorded since mid-October, according to Herald calculations. In the past seven days, the state has also added 26,854 cases per day, on average. Florida has recorded a total of at least 5,535,803 confirmed COVID cases and 65,265 deaths.

https://news.yahoo.com/covid-tallahassee-hospitals-report-highest-200559067.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9kdWNrZHVja2dvLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAEHrx_2_iEsB-k58aLvapCUchj81r-H72e7Y9lloQHbaePQmul7fTZH_Knv-SetH4DnSasctVd8sGmfT_upofKr2qpywlMWdRzYD8RBm_NrPZf-Lkm0Xy34-4SLKSmFM3PhxHq5GZXmlPs15nqkgCedKmJ8wJASaRVOKPhQ8zwdp

Tallahassee Democrat
COVID: Tallahassee hospitals report highest monthly death count since October; cases fall over 22%
Mike Stucka and Christopher Cann
Mon, January 31, 2022, 9:05 PM·6 min read

Tallahassee hospitals have reported their highest monthly count of COVID-related deaths since October, when the delta variant was raging through the community.

[emailking]

Recent deaths in Florida have been very, very low. That's another indicator that the continuing deaths probably are Delta.

Delta is barely even here anymore. It's not Delta.

[Bandit3 the Worker]

Recent deaths in Florida have been very, very low. That's another indicator that the continuing deaths probably are Delta.

lol Mr Scientist (that's a great nickname for you)




https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/florida-covid-update-seven-day-death-average-is-the-highest-recorded-since-october/ar-AATldQz

Florida COVID update: Seven-day death average is the highest recorded since October

Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald - 41m ago

Florida on Monday reported 34,204 COVID-19 cases and 618 new deaths to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to Miami Herald calculations of CDC data.

The CDC backlogs cases and deaths for Florida on Mondays and Thursdays, when multiple days in the past had their totals changed. In August, Florida began reporting cases and deaths by the “case date” and “death date” rather than the date they were logged into the system.

Of the deaths added, about 98% occurred in the past 28 days and about 63% in the last two weeks, according to Miami Herald calculations of CDC data.

In the past seven days, the state has added 180 deaths, on average, the highest recorded since mid-October, according to Herald calculations. In the past seven days, the state has also added 26,854 cases per day, on average. Florida has recorded a total of at least 5,535,803 confirmed COVID cases and 65,265 deaths.

https://news.yahoo.com/covid-tallahassee-hospitals-report-highest-200559067.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9kdWNrZHVja2dvLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAEHrx_2_iEsB-k58aLvapCUchj81r-H72e7Y9lloQHbaePQmul7fTZH_Knv-SetH4DnSasctVd8sGmfT_upofKr2qpywlMWdRzYD8RBm_NrPZf-Lkm0Xy34-4SLKSmFM3PhxHq5GZXmlPs15nqkgCedKmJ8wJASaRVOKPhQ8zwdp

Tallahassee Democrat
COVID: Tallahassee hospitals report highest monthly death count since October; cases fall over 22%
Mike Stucka and Christopher Cann
Mon, January 31, 2022, 9:05 PM·6 min read

Tallahassee hospitals have reported their highest monthly count of COVID-related deaths since October, when the delta variant was raging through the community.

Worldometer says Florida is averaging only 29 per day, and is declining.