Covid 2021 (Be Proper or GTFO)

Originally posted by Bashar Teg

A Texas man, whose death was the first confirmed Omicron-related in the US, was [b] unvaccinated and had previously been infected with the coronavirus, according to a press release from Harris County Public Health.

"The individual was at higher risk of severe complications from Covid-19 due to his unvaccinated status and had underlying health conditions," the release said.

County Judge Lina Hidalgo announced the death on Monday, saying the man was in his 50s. The case is the first known confirmed Omicron-related death in the US. [/B]

What a COVIDiot.

Omicron has raced ahead of other variants and is now the dominant version of the coronavirus in the U.S., accounting for 73% of new infections last week, federal health officials said Monday. The CDC numbers showed nearly a six-fold increase in omicron's share of infections in only one week.

In much of the country, it is even higher. Omicron is responsible for an estimated 90% or more of new infections in the New York area, the Southeast, the industrial Midwest, and the Pacific Northwest. The national rate suggests that more than 650,000 omicron infections occurred in the U.S. last week.

Originally posted by emporerpants
So, there is a lot of conflicting info out there, but what does everyone think on the severity of omnicron? Is it actually less severe on a case by case basis do you think? Also, yes, I'm aware that being less severe doesn't mean there will be less hospitalizations when omnicron is so much more infectious than delta.

We just don't know yet. That's the problem.

Originally posted by -Pr-
We just don't know yet. That's the problem.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but we don't even exactly have the full data on other variants, either.

Originally posted by StiltmanFTW
Correct me if I'm wrong, but we don't even exactly have the full data on other variants, either.

Not full data, no. We've just, if we're to believe the doctors, had more time to test them etc.

Sure would help if the virus mutated at a slower rate, eh?

So everyone's dying and the president is someone who looks dead himself.

*sigh*

Biden is 79, right?

Originally posted by StiltmanFTW
Biden is 79, right?

Cool kids never have the time.

Originally posted by Old Man Whirly!
Nah, that was a song by the Smashing Pumpkins.

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scienceforums.com/topic/38749-three-postulates-to-understand-entropic-gravity/?do=findComment&comment=396549

Some of that were incorrect, that I fix'd later down, liked plnckcnstnt x grab constant over c^cubed not sqrd

Anywho, whistle, you get my point about seasons and minimum age required?

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https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ykidxwif4T6w5Akmg/omicron-post-8

This guy has great COVID blogs have been reading him for over a year now and I thought I would share.

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Originally posted by emporerpants
So, there is a lot of conflicting info out there, but what does everyone think on the severity of omnicron? Is it actually less severe on a case by case basis do you think? Also, yes, I'm aware that being less severe doesn't mean there will be less hospitalizations when omnicron is so much more infectious than delta.

Seems to be a lot less deadly. Our infections have massively spiked here, but covid deaths per day do not seem to have spiked Yet

So a much less deadly but much more contagious variant could be what we need to help reach herd immunity tbh.

That said, I think the fear here is that hospitals will get overrun with the massively compounding infection rate.

Originally posted by Darth Thor
Seems to be a lot less deadly. Our infections have massively spiked here, but covid deaths per day do not seem to have spiked [b]Yet

So a much less deadly but much more contagious variant could be what we need to help reach herd immunity tbh.

That said, I think the fear here is that hospitals will get overrun with the massively compounding infection rate. [/B]

As winter solstice arrives, the autumn lull in the COVID-19 pandemic—which Florida has enjoyed since mid-October—appears to be over. Perhaps driven by the new omicron variant, the Sunshine State saw its recent COVID-19 caseload more than triple in the past week, and in time to put a pall on Christmas.

Tuesday's latest federal data showed Florida confirmed 49,473 new cases in the most recent seven days through Sunday. That is the first time since early October that Florida has seen more than 20,000 cases in seven days and the first time since late September that Florida has seen more than 40,000.

COVID-19 helped erase 1.8 years from the average American's life expectancy in 2020, according to the latest federal mortality data released Wednesday, marking the greatest change in the American lifespan since World War II.

During that one brutal year, COVID-19 became the third-most common cause of death in the United States, with one out of 10 fatalities due to the virus.

In 2020, before the COVID vaccines were widely available, life expectancy plummeted to 77 years, down 1.8 years from 78.8 years in 2019 for the entire population, the new data shows.