Omicron variant more resistant to vaccine but causes less severe Covid: study

Re:Omicron variant more resistant to vaccine but causes less... by pwthornton on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @01:36PM (#29555393)

Depends on your definition of require. The flu doesn't require a vaccine, but if we had much higher vaccine uptake each year we would save hundreds of thousands of lives a year. It's possible that with really high vaccine uptake and other measures we could make the flu a lot more rare.

If we end up with a version of COVID that is less deadly and then we decide to not take vaccines seriously, we'll end up with endemic hundreds of thousands or millions of people dying every year. In the U.S., is an extra 100,000 dead a year something we should be OK with?

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Re:Omicron variant more resistant to vaccine but causes less... by hpoe on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @02:19PM (#29556067)

If the choice is between that and permanent "emergency powers" for all levels of government to continue to panic and scare monger and implement things like vaccine passports, required immunizations as a condition of employment, the destruction of SMB and the demonization and hostility towards anyone that doesn't trust The Science (while shutting all discussion down about The Science because the plebs aren't smart enough to understand The Science)

Then yes yes I will take that.

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Re:Omicron variant more resistant to vaccine but causes less... by dang on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @05:08PM (#29558714)

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