Omicron leaving the lungs alone is a massive change
Great diagram, very scientific looking.
Basically Omicron has evolved to be much more efficient at rapidly infecting the *upper* airway, which accounts for the fact that it’s more infectious and the fact that it incubates faster, at ~3.5 days.
Fortunately that optimisation has led to it being much *less* efficient at infecting lung tissue, with the happy outcome that it’s a lot less lethal.
That’s fantastic news for all the asthmatics out there!
Can we open the pubs at normal times and get back to normality now?
I never felt anything from the throat down.
Am I right in saying that even if Omicron is tearing through people and is the dominant strain right now, those that catch it will still be able to get Delta later on?
Is Omicron effectively locking people down as they isolate, and thus limiting the spread of Delta?
Where’s that Eurovision lad who normally comes in dooming under articles like these?
I’ve played Plague Inc. This is a fake out to get it spreading more.
Woooo, it was weaker
The lungs on the right use Calgon.
How do I put a negative spin on this ?
Asthmatic here! I am in bed recovering from a dual dose, flu and Covid at the same time. Can confirm my lungs were ACHING for days, can’t confirm if it’s due to the Covid or the fact I had flu AND Covid and it was just a lot for my body to take. Miserable either way! Glad I avoided earlier types for sure!
Who’s going to be the one to tell the good folks over in the coronavirus_ireland sub the news?
So…… does that mean that Covid is pretty much over?
I mean the virus is completely out of control right now. Case numbers are crazy and most are undocumented but still we aren’t overwhelmed?
I mean look, we completely failed to stop it in any way and the results aren’t so bad, at this point why even worry?
Everyone get their boosters and we’re golden.
Do we have to rename the disease aspect (Covid-19)?
Seems a lot different.
This is fabulous news and possibly the best science graph ever yet
Omicron is the best thing that could have happened with Covid
Two blue cogs is less bad than six red cogs
Seems more spreadable since we have the most cases ever and mihole martin said 96% of cases are omnicron
New PlayStation controller looks terrible.
Why US and USA are mentioned twice? Has the hse tag on it but this typo (?) makes it look unreliable
This will be good for the antivaxxers.
They can go out and get blue COVID to help build up an immunity to red COVID and not have to get the Bill Gates 5G microchip tracker vaccine…
That’s some next level graphics.
Has anyone died of omicron in Ireland?
Please God let’s hope it’s the beginning of the end.
Six bad covids in lungs with delta and only two good covids in lungs with omicron? Thanks for the info, HSE!
Thank god, i could use less gears in my lungs
Just to add, I’m not mitigating those who have been struck by any of the above respiratory illnesses. I was taking out badly in 2018 by the flu. I was training MMA four times a week. My doctor said I had athletic conditioning.
After I was sick, it went away and came back a week later. I had to get antibiotics for bacterial pneumonia. And I had to quit training. Last time I was in London December 2019 I was genuinely worried about catching another dose.
I read that it multiples 25 times faster in bronchial tissue and 10 times slower in lung tissue. So far that seems to be panning out as an improvement for us.
But that could possibly be overridden if it infects more people overall to a large degree.
Hopefully it will turn out like it did in South Africa.
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Basically don’t eat red Covid
Edit: on a serious note in Ireland over the last 6 months when people were moved to ICU:
– 66% had acute respiratory distress syndrome
– 65% required non-invasive ventilation
– 27% required invasive mechanical ventilation
Omicron leaving the lungs alone is a massive change
Great diagram, very scientific looking.
Basically Omicron has evolved to be much more efficient at rapidly infecting the *upper* airway, which accounts for the fact that it’s more infectious and the fact that it incubates faster, at ~3.5 days.
Fortunately that optimisation has led to it being much *less* efficient at infecting lung tissue, with the happy outcome that it’s a lot less lethal.
That’s fantastic news for all the asthmatics out there!
Can we open the pubs at normal times and get back to normality now?
I never felt anything from the throat down.
Am I right in saying that even if Omicron is tearing through people and is the dominant strain right now, those that catch it will still be able to get Delta later on?
Is Omicron effectively locking people down as they isolate, and thus limiting the spread of Delta?
Where’s that Eurovision lad who normally comes in dooming under articles like these?
I’ve played Plague Inc. This is a fake out to get it spreading more.
Woooo, it was weaker
The lungs on the right use Calgon.
How do I put a negative spin on this ?
Asthmatic here! I am in bed recovering from a dual dose, flu and Covid at the same time. Can confirm my lungs were ACHING for days, can’t confirm if it’s due to the Covid or the fact I had flu AND Covid and it was just a lot for my body to take. Miserable either way! Glad I avoided earlier types for sure!
Who’s going to be the one to tell the good folks over in the coronavirus_ireland sub the news?
So…… does that mean that Covid is pretty much over?
I mean the virus is completely out of control right now. Case numbers are crazy and most are undocumented but still we aren’t overwhelmed?
I mean look, we completely failed to stop it in any way and the results aren’t so bad, at this point why even worry?
Everyone get their boosters and we’re golden.
Do we have to rename the disease aspect (Covid-19)?
Seems a lot different.
This is fabulous news and possibly the best science graph ever yet
Omicron is the best thing that could have happened with Covid
Two blue cogs is less bad than six red cogs
Seems more spreadable since we have the most cases ever and mihole martin said 96% of cases are omnicron
New PlayStation controller looks terrible.
Why US and USA are mentioned twice? Has the hse tag on it but this typo (?) makes it look unreliable
This will be good for the antivaxxers.
They can go out and get blue COVID to help build up an immunity to red COVID and not have to get the Bill Gates 5G microchip tracker vaccine…
That’s some next level graphics.
Has anyone died of omicron in Ireland?
Please God let’s hope it’s the beginning of the end.
Six bad covids in lungs with delta and only two good covids in lungs with omicron? Thanks for the info, HSE!
Thank god, i could use less gears in my lungs
Just to add, I’m not mitigating those who have been struck by any of the above respiratory illnesses. I was taking out badly in 2018 by the flu. I was training MMA four times a week. My doctor said I had athletic conditioning.
After I was sick, it went away and came back a week later. I had to get antibiotics for bacterial pneumonia. And I had to quit training. Last time I was in London December 2019 I was genuinely worried about catching another dose.
I read that it multiples 25 times faster in bronchial tissue and 10 times slower in lung tissue. So far that seems to be panning out as an improvement for us.
But that could possibly be overridden if it infects more people overall to a large degree.
Hopefully it will turn out like it did in South Africa.