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Re:Omicron variant more resistant to vaccine but causes less... by krona on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @04:32PM (#29558164)
> The first publicly confirmed death globally from Omicron was reported just yesterday

With Omicron, not from Omicron. It's an important distinction.

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Re:Omicron variant more resistant to vaccine but causes less... by drited on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @05:03PM (#29558633)
The headline says "with" and the first bullet point says "from". The first paragraph says

"the first publicly confirmed death globally from the swiftly spreading strain"

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Re:Omicron variant more resistant to vaccine but causes less... by krona on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @06:20PM (#29559532)
And the next paragraph says "Britain gave no details on the death other than the person had been diagnosed in hospital."

However I wasn't referring to the news article but actual statements from UK government ministers and health officials' failure to be specific when questioned. For all we know the person was hit by a bus.

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Re:Omicron variant more resistant to vaccine but causes less... by drited on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @04:35AM (#29563760)
If the person was hit by a bus or died from a cause other than Omicron then that would strengthen the point I was making in the post you replied to which was

>>doesn't this suggest that the case fatality rate is a lot lower (not marginally lower)?

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