Omicron variant was 73% of U.S. covid cases last week

Re:Omicron variant was 73% of U.S. covid cases last week by amildie on Monday December 20, 2021 @11:03PM (#29633711)

Encouraging why?

A month from now a new vaccine-escaping variant could emerge from some squirrel in Haiti that's a billion times more transmissible than Omicron and a thousand times more lethal than Delta.

The fact that this particular variant isn't an absolute catastrophe doesn't mean that a new devastating variant isn't around the corner.

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Re:Omicron variant was 73% of U.S. covid cases last week by wussboy on Monday December 20, 2021 @11:08PM (#29633739)

But that has never not been true in every time and in every place. Why get existential dread about it now?

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Re:Omicron variant was 73% of U.S. covid cases last week by sk5t on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @12:26AM (#29634236)

Clearly we should spend all our energy, always, worrying about the near-uncontrollable realms of bacterial and viral evolution.

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Re:Omicron variant was 73% of U.S. covid cases last week by bandana on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @01:24AM (#29634595)

I've heard that the Pangolin variant could be 10x more potent than the Haitian squirrel variant. Why is everyone still going out, lock us down now !

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Re:Omicron variant was 73% of U.S. covid cases last week by ianai on Monday December 20, 2021 @11:11PM (#29633761)

First death from omicron in US wasn’t vaccinated per breaking news just now.

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Re:Omicron variant was 73% of U.S. covid cases last week by stjohnswarts on Monday December 20, 2021 @11:33PM (#29633911)

Lots of people died this week from flu and the common cold as well, so let's not freak out just yet.

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