The omicron variant is much less likely to lead to hospitalisation but if you have enough cases that can still lead to a spike
The omicron variant is much less likely to lead to hospitalisation but if you have enough cases that can still lead to a spike
Now that so many have Omicron I would expect a significant portion of that (relatively small) spike is people who would have been hospitalised anyway and happen to have covid.
With each day that passes it seems to be getting clearer that Omicron is going to a major net positive for the world as it pushes out delta. HK is about the only place where that isn't the case given it may well be transmissible enough to evade contact tracing and mass testing, while delta really wasn't. Even in the mainland the oldies are much more vaxxed.
That those who are dying just happen to have covid has been a constant theme of the last 2 years, and whilst it was of only moderate consequence in 2020 it is undoubtedly a very large factor for the latter half of 2021 and especially so in the last few months.
There are after all close to 2,000 people dying every day in the UK anyway.
If you were to subject the UK population to HK's massively inflated CT value PCR tests, how many more millions of 'cases' would be found?
To add to earlier, if it’s that important to avoid the unfortunate spikes, where are the people clamouring for lockdowns, to give up Christmas, to forgo travel, instead of wanting to make OTHER people forcibly vaccinated?
Compromising bodily autonomy shouldn’t be a one-way street.
Expecting doctors with the Hippocratic oath to potentially actively engage in the trolley experiment with younger age groups even more so.