Big factor here is the younger ages getting hit early. But that is slowly changing and these numbers will sharply rise soon as they are in other countries when the elderly get hit.Lag caveats and all and based on UK and specifically London data we'll eventually get hit and get hit hard but so far we are holding strong:
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Unfortunately Denmark data reportedly was wrong. They reported 0 cases the last 2 days on the site Topol used so they maybe haven't peaked yet. But your point still stands!wowsa. I mean the silver lining is that the down curve should be about as sharp as the up curve? says the saffers and danes?
The "Case numbers don't matter" people are bizarre and must have failed 3rd grade math. Does no one understand that weaker correlations don't mean broken correlations? Cases will always be the single best metric to use to predict hospitalizations and you get a headstart because of the lag from cases to hospitalizations and larger lag to deaths.and then hilariously I almost expect case numbers to rapidly drop and hospitalizations to actually rise for a time while the disease does its thing (and the dumdums to proclaim all is well cause case numbers).
If that's it I should get my results today72,639 tests were performed and the backlog is 67,571 (rising a lot every day) so even ignoring the folks who don't get a PCR, we're missing a LOT of cases.
If Omicron were a comet headed straight for the Earth it would burn up in our atmosphere and whatever's left would be no bigger than a chihuahua's head.The "Case numbers don't matter" people are bizarre and must have failed 3rd grade math. Does no one understand that weaker correlations don't mean broken correlations? Cases will always be the single best metric to use to predict hospitalizations and you get a headstart because of the lag from cases to hospitalizations and larger lag to deaths.
If the case numbers bother you so much then feel free to ignore them. But it's a pandemic and we sorta need to track them or we'd be flying blind.
Granted, I suspect most of the ICU folks are from Delta but this sorta says everything. The vaccines are proving their worth more than ever now that protection from symptomatic disease is basically gone. And since most young folks are getting hit in Omicron, it's the unvaxxed who are at risk of being hospitalized. Once it leaks into the older, highly vaxxed ages I suspect things may change. But this is a beautiful picture of vaccines doing some serious work.And it's important to note that the vaccines best trait is their ability to keep people out of the ICU. It's kind of a miracle and beats the hell out of even the flu vaccines. We're gonna get hit and really struggle but we're really lucky this variant didn't come about pre-vaccines. Most evidence shows that this variant is very likely more severe than Alpha and look at our Alpha wave with just a fraction of the current daily case rate...
1. Omicron is still hospitalizing and killing people. If we had London, England's hospitalization per capita our hospitals would be drowning right now because we simply lack capacity. They are further along in the wave than us so we should pay attention.If Omicron were a comet headed straight for the Earth it would burn up in our atmosphere and whatever's left would be no bigger than a chihuahua's head.
Omicron may be more contagious, but it's no Delta when it comes to it's killing power. Delta was a .44 magnum. Omicron is a pellet gun, at least if you're already vaxxed.
In Doug Ford's Ontario? He's more likely to lay off healthcare workers than build infrastructure.Maybe the focus in the next couple of years should be building out hospital and health care infrastructure.
I didn't realize you also dabbled in virology and epidemiology. why have you not been more forthcoming with your expert analysis?If Omicron were a comet headed straight for the Earth it would burn up in our atmosphere and whatever's left would be no bigger than a chihuahua's head.
Omicron may be more contagious, but it's no Delta when it comes to it's killing power. Delta was a .44 magnum. Omicron is a pellet gun, at least if you're already vaxxed.