UK: Omicron 50-70% less likely to cause hospitalization

[Morphine Prince 109,712]

 

[Chromatography 10,186]

They don’t mention if this is for vaccinated or unvaccinated, did I miss it?

[Dojo 19,823]

well cheers to that 

[RAMROD 117,269]

2 minutes ago, Chromatography said:

They don’t mention if this is for vaccinated or unvaccinated, did I miss it?

 

Isn't that pretty obvious already though? 

[KORG 4,756]

Can we just ditch the media frenzy then please. Its exhausting and manipulative.

[RAMROD 117,269]

Omicron?! More like omiclown, amirite?

[Chromatography 10,186]

9 minutes ago, RAMROD said:

 

Isn't that pretty obvious already though? 

Yes, but would like actual numbers 

[alsemanche 97,820]

This is great news! The downside however is that it's more contagious which means it affects more people and by default more people will need hospitalization, so the healthcare system is still super overwhelmed rn and that's why we need strict regulations. I'm glad that it's less dangerous 

[PunkTheFunk 125,719]

33 minutes ago, KORG said:

Can we just ditch the media frenzy then please. Its exhausting and manipulative.

Tell that to the overwhelmed healthcare workers who will need to deal with a surge of unvaccinated people catching and dying from Omicron anyway. 

[KORG 4,756]

34 minutes ago, PunkTheFunk said:

Tell that to the overwhelmed healthcare workers who will need to deal with a surge of unvaccinated people catching and dying from Omicron anyway. 

You know why they're overwhelmed?

They are understaffed and all GP visits have now been re-directed to hospitals. Not only that, but they've been ignoring all other illnesses for so long that they're now needing to be in hospital for it rather than as outpatients. Its disgusting.

Before the pandemic there was a huge controversy about reducing the number of nurses they're recruiting to save money, they've then gone on to award nursing contracts to private companies as they charge full steam into making the NHS an inefficient paupers service.

They've been playing chess.

[nATAH 57,336]

so why is she doing the most? payola but not substance, as usual

[SharkmanthaC 115,066]

9 minutes ago, KORG said:

You know why they're overwhelmed?

They are understaffed and all GP visits have now been re-directed to hospitals. Not only that, but they've been ignoring all other illnesses for so long that they're now needing to be in hospital for it rather than as outpatients. Its disgusting.

Before the pandemic there was a huge controversy about reducing the number of nurses they're recruiting to save money, they've then gone on to award nursing contracts to private companies as they charge full steam into making the NHS an inefficient paupers service.

They've been playing chess.

People haven't been ignoring illnesses, they haven't been able to seek proper care because of covid. It's a cycle. Maybe some people have been ignoring, but some people have been too afraid to go to the doctor/hospital because of the covid risk. A lot of resources (human and otherwise) were put into treating covid patients, making hospitals prioritize those resources into patients that were at most risk for dying immediately. 

[SevenWonder 4,755]

Which is exactly as I predicted. Viruses tend to not get stronger years into their existence. Quite the opposite actually. Just rarely happens. All the media alarmism for nothing.

Not that it's not important to be informed and to be vigilant, of course. But we don't need to think the sky is falling every other minute.

That said, get vaxxed, get boosted. Then live your life. 

[gothicdream 39,660]

I'm very glad our risk of dying from covid is lower, but our risk of dying when in need of any type of hospital care is going to increase because this may overwhelm hospitals to a point we haven't seen before and care will be rationed.

I just read a study that predicts we will see the same number of covid cases in the next two months as we have seen during the entire pandemic so far. 50-70% lower hospitalization is great but doesn't do much when such a high portion of the population is going to be simultaneously infected.

https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/uws-ihme-projects-3-billion-new-covid-19-cases-by-february/TFAHKY5UUFDA5MAVPSOHIV6BHQ/

[Franch Toast 27,737]

2 hours ago, alsemanche said:

This is great news! The downside however is that it's more contagious which means it affects more people and by default more people will need hospitalization, so the healthcare system is still super overwhelmed rn and that's why we need strict regulations. I'm glad that it's less dangerous 

 

4 minutes ago, Healed My Heart said:

I'm very glad our risk of dying from covid is lower, but our risk of dying when in need of any type of hospital care is going to increase because this may overwhelm hospitals to a point we haven't seen before and care will be rationed.

I just read a study that predicts we will see the same number of covid cases in the next two months as we have seen during the entire pandemic so far. 50-70% lower hospitalization is great but doesn't do much when such a high portion of the population is going to be simultaneously infected.

https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/uws-ihme-projects-3-billion-new-covid-19-cases-by-february/TFAHKY5UUFDA5MAVPSOHIV6BHQ/

At this point, it's not about being worried of dying from Covid if you're vaccinated and boosted, but the fact that MORE people will have Covid means that MORE people will be hospitalized. I said this yesterday, but my doctor who recently was working in a Covid ward explained to me that because Omicron is going to exponentially infect more people, even though the percentage of people with Covid who need hospitalization will go down, the actual numbers will go up because there will be so many people with it. I'm in the US so can't speak for other countries, but in my state at least, our healthcare system already is overwhelmed by Covid patients, so I can't even imagine what it's going to be like in a month or two with Omicron. For this reason, I can understand why large-scale events are being cancelled in order to slow the spread. The holidays are going to make this so much worse too. I know so many people who have Covid right now. It really is spreading like wildfire.

(Also, just a reminder that even if you get Covid and don't need hospitalization, you could be dealing with long Covid symptoms, which are not pleasant, especially the heart and pulmonary problems.)