The Tuesday numbers got even worse at the end of the day - almost 313,000 new cases and over 1,800 deaths in USA. Canada reached also record numbers (over 27,000 new infections today), and it is very likely that those numbers in the next days due to Christmas travel will climb even higher.
Well, the media keeps telling us how hospital beds are all loaded up due to Omicron.
Coronavirus cases are soaring across the United States as the more transmissible omicron variant spreads, but hospitalizations remain “comparatively low,” Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told reporters Wednesday.The number of daily pediatric covid hospital admissions in the United States surpassed 1,200 on Wednesday, according to Washington Post data, approaching highs last seen in the summer. However, doctors have said that despite seeing record positive results from children’s coronavirus tests, the vast majority of cases so far have been mild.
Today at 4:23 a.m. EST|Updated today at 10:15 a.m. EST: Media: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/12/30/covid-omicron-variant-live-updates/
Some welcome good news. I'm surprised the awful media didn't try to cover it up.
God isn't going to drop you now.
Wow! 562,000 new infections today. And that doesn't include 5 states, and also not the positives amongst untested. The real number could be conceivably 1 million.
So now that Covid is on the way out, we're left with the economic damage.
Omicron seems to be pushing out the more dangerous Delta. My own state of New Jersey is one of the 16 worst states. It seems like it will leave as quickly as it hit. News from South Africa seem to support this outcome. Let's hope this is the last hurrah from Covid.
Sorry. I'm following the science, not like you who's following a real estate and stock investor for advice on Covid.
Brampton Mayor Patrick Brown has pointed out that the ICU capacity in Brampton remains strong, and noted that the focus simply on case counts doesn’t make sense.Additionally, Brown talked about how many are being listed as ‘admitted with covid’ while actually having come to the hospital for other reasons:“We need to focus on the severity of Omicron cases and not just case counts. The hospital capacity at Brampton Civic is strong. We are down to only 2 in ICU and only 20 in the hospital with COVID19. There is reason for cautious optimism and hopefully better days ahead in 2022!”https://twitter.com/patrickbrownont/status/1476212340022464521“Further, it needs to be noted that over the past week, more than 50% of #COVID19 positive patients at @OslerHealth were admitted due to the virus or respiratory illness, while the remainder came to the hospital for other reasons but were also admitted with COVID-19. Brampton Mayor Patrick Brown is now looking to draw attention to this under-reported issue, which is only getting bigger. “I’ve been told it’s about 50% of cases,” Brown said in a phone interview with the Sun, referring specifically to Brampton hospitals.This means the actual number of people in hospital with COVID-19 throughout Ontario may be half of what the official numbers indicate.“It speaks to the fact that the hospitalization numbers are better than we think they are,”Brown said, echoing comments he made at a televised press conference Tuesday morning.“If you’re looking at case counts higher than we’ve ever seen before but hospitalizations that haven’t really budged, that’s a really powerful insight into what we’re dealing with.”Brown said in Brampton, the hospital and ICU numbers are actually slightly declining. “That’s a very encouraging trend,” Brown said. “You turn on the news and see doom and gloom, and that’s not what I’m seeing.”
Mayor of Brampton, a medium-sized town northwest of Toronto, just sent out a Happy New Year tweet about Omicron. No wonder people are confused, not knowing whom to trust.
Omicron seems to be pushing out the more dangerous Delta. ...
Omicron seems to be pushing out the more dangerous Delta. . . . It seems like it will leave as quickly as it hit.
I could see this guy easily beating an incompetent Biden in the Democratic primary.
Bad news sells.
A pandemic-scarred year ends in darkness -- but with hope on the horizonAnalysis by Stephen Collinson, CNNUpdated 3:50 AM ET, Fri December 31, 2021
Just a clarification. I wouldn't vote for him...
Data from South Africa is showing that it is spreading faster amongst the vaccinated than the un-vaxxed.
Turns out, looks like natural immunity is better...
