Re:Children develop robust and sustained cross-reactive immu...
by rsfern on Friday December 24, 2021 @02:09PM
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As the data becomes more available from South Africa, the UK, and Denmark, it’s starting to look like Omicron is a more infectious version of the wild type, maybe 40% less virulent than Delta, at least in terms of putting people in the hospital.
There’s still not enough data to conclude about mortality.
The good news is that prior immunity seems to confer a large degree of protection from severe illness still
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/YBB9yZNJuz5j8hLdP/omicron-po...
Re:Children develop robust and sustained cross-reactive immu...
by DanBC on Sunday December 26, 2021 @07:07AM
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https://twitter.com/dgurdasani1/status/1475061938010865665?s...
> Your risk of getting hospitalised with SARS-CoV-2 (any variant) depends on two things? 1. how likely are you to get infected? 2. what is your chance of getting hospitalised once infected
> In simple terms, because omicron can escape immunity from past infections and vaccines, your protection against infection against omicron is vastly lower than with delta. This means risk of 1. is vastly increased- as you're less protected & also v. high background transmission.
What? Omicron is a more infectious version of Delta.
Omicron causes the same number of deaths and hospitalisations and long covid as delta. It just also infects a lot more people more easily, and those people are at low risk and push the CFR down.