Omicron at 100% Prevalence, Colorado

Re:Omicron at 100% Prevalence, Colorado by ricardobayes on Thursday January 06, 2022 @11:55AM (#29826046)

I will say beforehand that I'm heavily pro-vaccination and reducing risks regarding covid. Do we know at this point what are the hospitalization rates of omicron compared to the flu? p.s. I hope your wife gets better soon.

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Re:Omicron at 100% Prevalence, Colorado by causality0 on Thursday January 06, 2022 @12:08PM (#29826244)

Numbers are still changing but the current stat is one percent hospitalization rate for Omicron. This year's flu has a hospitalization rate almost twice as high as last year's, at 1.4 in 100,000 or 0.0014%.

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Re:Omicron at 100% Prevalence, Colorado by virgilp on Thursday January 06, 2022 @12:37PM (#29826710)

This can't be right.

> For the week ending Dec. 18, 1,265 lab-confirmed flu patients were hospitalized, up from the week prior. The cumulative hospitalization rate was 1.4 per 100,000 population as of Dec. 18, nearly double the overall cumulative hospitalization rate reported during the 2020-21 season. 3

I think you're comparing hospitalization rate per population vs. hospitalization per infected persons. If we look at the recent data and do some estimation, that's about 50k new hospitalzed for 3M new omicron cases, which is 0.016 or 10 times the flu; this sounds more reasonable.

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Re:Omicron at 100% Prevalence, Colorado by ricardobayes on Thursday January 06, 2022 @12:14PM (#29826356)

Is that vaccinated in both cases or overall?

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Re:Omicron at 100% Prevalence, Colorado by causality0 on Thursday January 06, 2022 @12:18PM (#29826418)

Overall for the infected regardless of vaccine status.

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Re:Omicron at 100% Prevalence, Colorado by devin on Thursday January 06, 2022 @12:18PM (#29826415)

And Delta was something like 6% IIRC?

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