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"A half truth is a whole lie." Yiddish Proverb On December 2nd, 2021, a study published on medRxiv (pre-print) found that: "Population-level evidence suggests that the Omicron variant is associated with substantial ability to evade immunity.
It's unclear whether omicron causes milder symptoms than other coronavirus variants though experts still urge the public to get vaccinated. In the UK, at least one death due to the omicron variant has been confirmed.
The most pessimistic scenario assumes a high immune escape and lower effectiveness of vaccine boosters. This scenario projects a wave of infection which is likely to lead to a peak in hospital admissions around twice as high as the peak seen in January 2021, if no additional control measures are taken, with 492,000 hospitalisations and 74,800 deaths. 🌎 COVID-19 Omicron Variant Could Cause Up to 75,000 Deaths in UK by April 2022 End, Warns Study.
thanks for joining. great to see you, too, don. some experts say this shows omicron is not the doomsday variant but others are looking for more data. what is your read on the cdc report? i still think that it s too early for us to tell exactly what is going to happen with omicron. there is good news and bad news. i ll start with the bad news first. the bad news is it looks like it s contagious. it could be twice as contagious as the delta variant. that s not good. it doesn t seem to be causing more severe disease but the c caveat is if it doesn t spread severe disease, it could still overwhelm the hospitals and already in some parts of the country we re already seeing a lot of hospitals being over run. we ve also seen this week that there is some degree of immune escape, meaning vaccinated