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Re:Omicron variant more resistant to vaccine but causes less... by notabee on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @10:40AM (#29552743)
Additionally, severe illness and deaths are a lagging indicator. Cases are going to wildly outpace those figures because of how transmissable this is, until they don't. Deaths especially often take months from onset.
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Re:Omicron variant more resistant to vaccine but causes less... by simonh on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @10:57AM (#29552959)
Hence the credulous articles about how India was 'special' when the virus first started spreading there because there were so few fatalities. Turns out it was spreading incredibly fast so cases were surging, but it took a month or more for the wave of deaths to follow. But follow it absolutely did.
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