then they'd have to admit natural immunity exists

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Jan 4, 2022, 11:40 AM

It is a very, very different virus. Let's hope it confers better immunity to past variants, than past variants conferred to it.

We're either going into a totally new phase of the pandemic (end?), or we're just stacking omicron on top of the pandemic (delta). Time will tell. It isn't dominant yet in England or Denmark in the samples from the past 30 days. CDC revised their percentages WAY downward too. Delta isn't going anywhere fast, or at least as fast as expected.

If you have 100K cases a day and 99.5% are delta, and then cases increase to 400K cases a day, and 300,000 (or 75%) are omicron, that is no net decline in delta cases. If omicron provides immunity to delta, as all prior variants did to the variants they replaced, then delta will decline to essentially zero. "Dominant" is not just having a higher percentage of infections or being more transmissible, it's also destroying the enemy you're attacking by conferring immunity to the prior variant.

And oddly, the South African study you mentioned, is the only study to study this. It's not even a real study, because in order to do it with valuable information, you have to keep better records than they (or the US) keeps. And I have yet to see a good viral load study on omicron. Singapore, China, and Israel did very good viral load studies on delta. Omicron? Crickets. Same study, new variant, and you know a whole lot more. Some nuggets have been released though. It infects different cells, and therefore different areas, NOT the lungs, thankfully. It IS less severe. Overall time to get ct values above 30 (assumed transmissibility) is 8-12 days, 10 days average, the SAME as the normal quarantine the CDC replaced. Some good science would be randomly checking those hospitalized for their specific variant. Delta is more severe, so most hospitalizations may still be delta, and they're going up. Who knows, again, important stuff NOT DONE. And as of today, total US hospitalizations have reached the same level as with delta. Are those people not there for covid? Why can't we break down hospitalizations into people with symptomatic covid, versus a broken arm? It ain't hard to do. Just so much not done in the US, and it's truly sad.

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Omicron is the fastest spreading virus in history

So?***

Here

Heard on many occasions that this

All of S Africa lost what, 1000 people from it? Something

I have heard on 3 different podcasts

probably was engineered***

Well it sure as hellll wasn't "coached".***

So we'll be done with Covid by next week ? Great. I'll

Seriously, some knowledgeable people are saying its a

Yep, even heard the doctor they regularly have on NBC say he

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