It means not enough testing, which would capture many other positives. Bleif doheem.
Same article from RTL shows that the number of hospitalisations is 3 times lower compared to Spring 2020 and Autumn/Winter 2021, while ICU beds are also half as occupied as in those previous waves. Omicron seems much weaker and might as well be the called Omega instead.
876 tests were conducted on prescription, **meaning that those people likely had symptoms and therefore also likely tested positive**. The other tests conducted through contact tracing also could have a quite high proportion of positives as those people had been in contact with a positive person.
We are no longer doing large scale testing, so those **positivity rates do not correlate with the positivity rate in the general population** i.e. 23% of the Luxembourg population **is not** currently positive.
The German health minister a few months ago said it clearly, by end of this winder you’re either vaccinated, recovered, or dead. I don’t think avoiding Omicron is feasible much, at least let’s hope we get through it and be done with it.
So what? Honestly, there is nothing more to do.
80% of over 12 years old are vaccinated and breakthroughs among vaccinated people are possible since Delta. (The CDC said this since June but our Santé didn’t want to hear this for some reason)
So the virus won’t go away it will stay. Either trust in your vaccine or you need to lock yourself into your basement because like it or not, most of us – even the ones like me who are already boosted – will catch the virus the following months.
There is no reason the prevent an infection anymore. Tough luck for those who are still unvaccinated.
Leaving this post here from a doctor who posted in r/France. It’s in french but google can most likely help. Anyway, I saw a few people here saying that we should cut restrictions because omicron is less dangerous, but they seem to be missing the point. case numbers are surging and hospitalizations too. leading to hospitals and healthcare workers reaching their absolute limits.
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It means not enough testing, which would capture many other positives. Bleif doheem.
Same article from RTL shows that the number of hospitalisations is 3 times lower compared to Spring 2020 and Autumn/Winter 2021, while ICU beds are also half as occupied as in those previous waves. Omicron seems much weaker and might as well be the called Omega instead.
876 tests were conducted on prescription, **meaning that those people likely had symptoms and therefore also likely tested positive**. The other tests conducted through contact tracing also could have a quite high proportion of positives as those people had been in contact with a positive person.
We are no longer doing large scale testing, so those **positivity rates do not correlate with the positivity rate in the general population** i.e. 23% of the Luxembourg population **is not** currently positive.
The German health minister a few months ago said it clearly, by end of this winder you’re either vaccinated, recovered, or dead. I don’t think avoiding Omicron is feasible much, at least let’s hope we get through it and be done with it.
So what? Honestly, there is nothing more to do.
80% of over 12 years old are vaccinated and breakthroughs among vaccinated people are possible since Delta. (The CDC said this since June but our Santé didn’t want to hear this for some reason)
So the virus won’t go away it will stay. Either trust in your vaccine or you need to lock yourself into your basement because like it or not, most of us – even the ones like me who are already boosted – will catch the virus the following months.
There is no reason the prevent an infection anymore. Tough luck for those who are still unvaccinated.
Leaving this post here from a doctor who posted in r/France. It’s in french but google can most likely help. Anyway, I saw a few people here saying that we should cut restrictions because omicron is less dangerous, but they seem to be missing the point. case numbers are surging and hospitalizations too. leading to hospitals and healthcare workers reaching their absolute limits.
[https://www.reddit.com/r/france/comments/rri8xa/covid_19_on_a_perdu/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3](https://www.reddit.com/r/france/comments/rri8xa/covid_19_on_a_perdu/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3)
My new slogan: Tax the non-vax. The only solution I see feasible
So we’re not talking about the fact, that the numbers were stable at around 10% for the last few months?