D. C. Bear said:
Osodecentx said:
geewago said:
Am I the only one that doesn't pay any attention to anything Fauci says. Just asking for myself and a few friends.
I listen, but have to verify from another source before I will believe.
Multiple other sources.
Absolutely
Healthy, boosted people unlikely to develop severe omicron infections, but jury's out on older, at-risk populations Healthy individuals who have been vaccinated, and especially those who have been boosted, appear unlikely to develop severe infections from the omicron variant that would land them in the hospital, say medical experts who have monitored the effects of the newest
coronavirus variant since it was identified over four weeks ago.
While omicron has sent U.S. infections soaring to levels not seen since last winter's wave
, it appears to have less severe effects than the delta variant, according to a handful of international studies and early data from several U.S. hospitals.
Those infected by the omicron variant are 15 to 20 percent less likely to go to an emergency room, and 40 percent less likely to be hospitalized overnight, compared with those infected with delta, according to English data analyzed by scientists from Imperial College London. That aligns with early U.S. data from some hospitals.
At the Houston Methodist hospital system, about 15 percent of symptomatic individuals have ended up hospitalized about a 70 percent reduction compared with those infected by the delta variant, said James Musser, chair of pathology and genomic medicine.
A separate
study from Britain, which is not yet peer-reviewed
, found that people infected with omicron were almost 60 percent less likely to enter the hospital than those infected with delta.He and other experts warn against complacency, however,
cautioning that millions of Americans, particularly the unvaccinated, remain vulnerable to more serious disease from the most transmissible coronavirus variant to date.https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/12/28/omicron-how-severe-us/