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Re:More Americans are saying they’re ‘vaxxed and done’ by nwiswell on Monday January 10, 2022 @02:52PM (#29880966)
> Do we know this about omicron?

Here's the early numbers out of major cities:

https://i.imgur.com/g8tyRdQ.png

It's probably somewhere between 75% as serious and as serious as Delta, but we can't be sure yet.

The handwaving about 0.5% - 1% is ultimately not something I can address because it is opinion. A million Americans are dead from this and more deaths are coming. Reminds me of the Stalin quote.

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Re:More Americans are saying they’re ‘vaxxed and done’ by dnautics on Monday January 10, 2022 @03:03PM (#29881217)
Just coming from a scientist that is SUPER used to reading graphs -- It's really hard to tell from those graphs because the scariness of those graphs could wind up being (horizontal) scaling artifacts, because we know in the countries that led the omicron wave it seems to burn out faster... If the number of deaths tails out just as quickly, the CFR will wind up being way lower, since total deaths are an integral under the curve, and cases are point-in-time values.
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