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The part or the article you quoted said this is from looking at people who had positive PCR tests. What about all the people who didn't get tested because they're just not that sick?
So, it is becoming like the other coronaviruses that now move through the population in the grouping of "common cold". Well, that is exactly what they said would happen. I could refer you to articles on the internet, but they have been removed. Those articles were from studies done by scientists, but they did not fit the political narrative.
This is what I expected even with the early reports from SA of it being milder. Just wrong information. They were comparing college age students to older people in other countries and forming a conclusion from that. This might end up being by far the worst wave but hopefully the last major one. Vaccines and boosters as well as natural immunity may be worthless.
The risk of reinfection with the Omicron coronavirus variant is more than five times higher and it has shown no sign of being milder than Delta, a study showed, as cases soar across Europe and threaten year-end festivities.The results of the study by Imperial College London were based on UK Health Security Agency and National Health Service data on people who tested positive for COVID-19 in a PCR test in England between Nov. 29 and Dec. 11.
"We find no evidence (for both risk of hospitalisation attendance and symptom status) of Omicron having different severity from Delta," the study said
The researchers found a significantly increased risk of developing a symptomatic Omicron case compared to Delta for those who were two or more weeks past their second vaccine dose, and two or more weeks past their booster dose.
"This study provides further evidence of the very substantial extent to which Omicron can evade prior immunity given by both infection or vaccination," study lead Professor Neil Ferguson said in ICL's statement.
"This level of immune evasion means that Omicron poses a major, imminent threat to public health."
Depending on the estimates used for vaccine effectiveness against symptomatic infection from the Delta variant, this translates into vaccine effectiveness of between 0% and 20% after two doses, and between 55% and 80% after a booster dose.....I don't mind the 55 to 80% effectiveness......
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