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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
“if you're infected during the omicron surge, the risk is lower for all the outcomes I just mentioned. For example, the risk of an ER visit drops by 70%.
PAMELA DAVIS: Hospitalization's a 56% reduction, ICU admissions, 66% - and mechanical ventilation, gosh, that's 84%.”
“Davis and her team believe about 60% of the people in this study were vaccinated. So some of this could be due to vaccination, but the data altogether also suggest that omicron inherently in some way causes less severe disease compared to delta.”
https://www.npr.org/2022/01/05/10707...delta-study-sa |
Cool, some stats. Do you think the total number of people infected is relevant to how you assess those stats? Because in Massachusetts, total hospitalizations at the peak of the Omicron wave was about 6x total hospitalization at the peak of the Delta, and were about where total hospitalizations were in the first wave, at the point when people were cheering for the doctors and nurses working 24 shifts. Total deaths for the state at the Peak of Omicron were about 3x those from the peak of Delta, though thankfully only at about 40% of where we were in the first wave.
So, yes, Omicron is not as severe as Delta in most people, yet still kills a multiple of the number of people killed by Delta and clogs up Hospitals and uses our resources at a massively higher rate than Delta. And Delta was not a walk in the park.
My apologies if those stats don't confirm your biases. I know you probably spent a couple hours googling to try to make your point.
