Excellent news! Now let’s just get on with life, winter is shit enough without more curbs on freedoms, exercise and socialising.
Please please please be true. If it’s way more transmissible and the vaccine protects against hospitalisation this could end the pandemic
Just in time for 2022. Time to get on with our lives.
Good news. This’ll rile the lockdown/covid fanatics. Just wait until they hear that two doses of the vaccine actually *is* sufficient.
People downvoting the actual post as well because they don’t want Omicron to be two thirds milder. They’re beyond fuming. Absolutely lunacy.
Looking foolish putting all those restrictions in now.
As much as this is music to my ears:
> A study of 15 people, which has not bee peer reviewed
Yeah……
> …which has not bee peer reviewed…
I’m happy to skip the bee review as long as human’s are happy with the data.
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Evidence from the this study is reflecting evidence from general UK-wide statistics which are reflecting South African evidence – Johnson must be looking in the wrong file (wine menu maybe?).
Collation and correlation of various studies, statistics and reports from a multitude of sources show Omicron is milder albiet more transmissible.
The UK is 81% double vaccinated, 52% booster vaccinated and has antibody coverage in the high 90%. We also have purchased millions of doses of antivirals. Double dose vaccines remain effective at reducing severe disease and hospitalisation, just not transmission, booster vaccines mitigate that by drastically slowing transmission.
At this point, do we keep imposing restrictions every 6 months when a new variant is discovered? Do we wait another year or so for more generic coverage vaccines? What if the next variant completely evades vaccines, both specific and non-specific? What if annual flu mutates and becomes highly vaccine resistant and lethal?
2/3 lower hospilisations sounds great, but it means nothing if it infects 3 times as many people.
Edit: typo
It has also been reported that cases of Omicron in South Africa have spontaneously reduced by 40% one month after the variant was first identified plus symptoms were reported as being comparatively mild. Let’s hope that with this additional data from Scotland, Omicron spreads very quickly with fewer hospitalisations and disappears just as quickly. Fingers crossed.
Seems to directly contradict this post from earlier, how are we supposed to know what to believe?
>Infections caused by the Omicron variant of the coronavirus do not appear to be less severe than infections from Delta, according to early data from the UK.
This was literally earlier today.
Wee Jimmy Krankie will be gutted, she couldn’t wait to make those new restrictions
Personal experience after just finishing isolation after COVID presumably Omicron. Only one day of bad symptoms all the other days have been symptom free and kept my taste and smell. Only symptom I’ve had which is not a normal COVID symptom is quite bad acid reflux but that is really it. So I would agree with the article in my personal case. My friend who probably has Omicron also has limited symptoms.
The headline says two-thirds lower but the article (now) says “15-20% less likely to need hospital treatment” and “40-45% less likely to stay in hospital for one night or more”?
Isn’t this similar to what happened with the Spanish flu? In my limited understanding of evolution, it makes sense, I guess. More infectious but less deadly leads to a better ability to spread.
Hopefully omicron is the start of the end for covid being a pandemic. Ideally more variants will come out less dangerous to take the place of omicron and so forth. The worry here is that previous infection or vaccination being less effective essentially is still putting the vulnerable and immuno compromised at risk
Just imagine if the NHS wasn’t so under resourced, we wouldn’t even need to be considering any kind of lock down or restrictions.
I suspect Boris will declare some kind of victory for holding back from locking down, don’t fall for his bollocks.
If it wasn’t for the Tories gutting the NHS to the point where they have nearly 100,000 Medical vacancies we wouldn’t be in the is fucking mess to being with.
Ultimately we got lucky, very lucky.
If the Omicron varient had the same strength as delta but with its current infectous rate we would be royally fucked right now.
I’ve been reading data from various sources and this appears to be accurate from cases vs death data, although still early days. I think at this point any new variant is provoking knee jerk reactions.
If it’s 60% less serious, vaccines are 30% less effective and it’s 400% more infectious, the NHS still faces being crippled.
Whilst this is great….if it infects 3 times as many people, we’re going to end up in the same horror show as before.
In another study they claim 80% less hospitalizations
Having woke up this morning with what I think is the Omicron variant, this is fantastic news to me
[Scotland Study](https://www.easterneye.biz/british-data-indicate-lower-hospitalisation-rate-for-omicron/) – It found that “Omicron is associated with a two-thirds reduction in the risk of Covid-19 hospitalisation when compared to Delta,” while also showing that a booster vaccine offered substantial additional protection against symptomatic infection.
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Excellent news! Now let’s just get on with life, winter is shit enough without more curbs on freedoms, exercise and socialising.
Please please please be true. If it’s way more transmissible and the vaccine protects against hospitalisation this could end the pandemic
Just in time for 2022. Time to get on with our lives.
Good news. This’ll rile the lockdown/covid fanatics. Just wait until they hear that two doses of the vaccine actually *is* sufficient.
People downvoting the actual post as well because they don’t want Omicron to be two thirds milder. They’re beyond fuming. Absolutely lunacy.
Looking foolish putting all those restrictions in now.
As much as this is music to my ears:
> A study of 15 people, which has not bee peer reviewed
Yeah……
> …which has not bee peer reviewed…
I’m happy to skip the bee review as long as human’s are happy with the data.
[deleted]
Evidence from the this study is reflecting evidence from general UK-wide statistics which are reflecting South African evidence – Johnson must be looking in the wrong file (wine menu maybe?).
Collation and correlation of various studies, statistics and reports from a multitude of sources show Omicron is milder albiet more transmissible.
The UK is 81% double vaccinated, 52% booster vaccinated and has antibody coverage in the high 90%. We also have purchased millions of doses of antivirals. Double dose vaccines remain effective at reducing severe disease and hospitalisation, just not transmission, booster vaccines mitigate that by drastically slowing transmission.
At this point, do we keep imposing restrictions every 6 months when a new variant is discovered? Do we wait another year or so for more generic coverage vaccines? What if the next variant completely evades vaccines, both specific and non-specific? What if annual flu mutates and becomes highly vaccine resistant and lethal?
2/3 lower hospilisations sounds great, but it means nothing if it infects 3 times as many people.
Edit: typo
It has also been reported that cases of Omicron in South Africa have spontaneously reduced by 40% one month after the variant was first identified plus symptoms were reported as being comparatively mild. Let’s hope that with this additional data from Scotland, Omicron spreads very quickly with fewer hospitalisations and disappears just as quickly. Fingers crossed.
Seems to directly contradict this post from earlier, how are we supposed to know what to believe?
https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/rm41ta/omicron_infections_appear_no_less_severe_than/
>Infections caused by the Omicron variant of the coronavirus do not appear to be less severe than infections from Delta, according to early data from the UK.
This was literally earlier today.
Wee Jimmy Krankie will be gutted, she couldn’t wait to make those new restrictions
Personal experience after just finishing isolation after COVID presumably Omicron. Only one day of bad symptoms all the other days have been symptom free and kept my taste and smell. Only symptom I’ve had which is not a normal COVID symptom is quite bad acid reflux but that is really it. So I would agree with the article in my personal case. My friend who probably has Omicron also has limited symptoms.
The headline says two-thirds lower but the article (now) says “15-20% less likely to need hospital treatment” and “40-45% less likely to stay in hospital for one night or more”?
Isn’t this similar to what happened with the Spanish flu? In my limited understanding of evolution, it makes sense, I guess. More infectious but less deadly leads to a better ability to spread.
Hopefully omicron is the start of the end for covid being a pandemic. Ideally more variants will come out less dangerous to take the place of omicron and so forth. The worry here is that previous infection or vaccination being less effective essentially is still putting the vulnerable and immuno compromised at risk
Just imagine if the NHS wasn’t so under resourced, we wouldn’t even need to be considering any kind of lock down or restrictions.
I suspect Boris will declare some kind of victory for holding back from locking down, don’t fall for his bollocks.
If it wasn’t for the Tories gutting the NHS to the point where they have nearly 100,000 Medical vacancies we wouldn’t be in the is fucking mess to being with.
Ultimately we got lucky, very lucky.
If the Omicron varient had the same strength as delta but with its current infectous rate we would be royally fucked right now.
I’ve been reading data from various sources and this appears to be accurate from cases vs death data, although still early days. I think at this point any new variant is provoking knee jerk reactions.
If it’s 60% less serious, vaccines are 30% less effective and it’s 400% more infectious, the NHS still faces being crippled.
Whilst this is great….if it infects 3 times as many people, we’re going to end up in the same horror show as before.
In another study they claim 80% less hospitalizations
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-22/omicron-has-80-lower-risk-of-hospitalization-new-study-shows
Having woke up this morning with what I think is the Omicron variant, this is fantastic news to me
[Scotland Study](https://www.easterneye.biz/british-data-indicate-lower-hospitalisation-rate-for-omicron/) – It found that “Omicron is associated with a two-thirds reduction in the risk of Covid-19 hospitalisation when compared to Delta,” while also showing that a booster vaccine offered substantial additional protection against symptomatic infection.
[England Study](https://www.easterneye.biz/british-data-indicate-lower-hospitalisation-rate-for-omicron/) – It found there was a 20-25 per cent reduction in any attendance at hospital for Omicron compared to Delta, and a 40-45 per cent reduction in hospitalisations lasting one night or longer, in other words, “admissions.”
*I think, As of now. We should stop panicking and It is okay to be cautious.*
Can we please listen to this and not decide to lock up again before NYE.