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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."
Who knows. I know the average age of a person with omicron in SA was in their 20's. Plus its propaganda. They want to stop the travel ban. Put out fake good news helps.
Maybe the population is different? Climate is different (temperature, humidity). Maybe fewer fat people? The average age of the population of South Africa is 28, the US 38, Germany 48.
They came to all those conclusions after 2 weeks ?
That's the study...11/29-12/11 and then they "analyzed" data.
Well I went and dug up this "study" which isn't even a study.
It is a REPORT that used computer modeling with them inputting numbers to get predictions.
They used hospital records.
And they used "conditional Poisson regression" because it's more FLEXIBLE then "conditional logistic regression"
You know.."lets change this 5 to a 7 and OMG..everyone will die".
I'll let you guys go try to dig this up. It was not easy and I did not use Google but I found it after 15 minutes of hunting and pecking with DuckDuckGo
When an MSM article does NOT post a link to a "study" then a flag should go up in your head.
They should be working on boosters for the omicron variant right now because the boosters we have are only going to provide a couple months of protection and you're not going to get people to take multiple every 3 month booster shots in order to stay vaccinated.
If they want any chance of this vaccination b******* to succeed they need to make sure that the vaccines they are offering provided at least six to nine months of protection so they better get working on an omicron booster before they start their mandates (which they shouldn't be doing anyways) or they're going to have a large number of people around the world simply rebel.
I have no real desire to travel so I don't have to worry about masks on planes or vaccine passports.
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