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Re:Pfizer and BioNTech launch trial of Omicron-targeted Covi... by nradov on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @03:24PM (#30077544)
Your numbers are way off. Many of the deaths last week weren't necessarily from Omicron. Some were patients infected by the Delta variant in previous weeks before Omicron became completely dominant.
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Re:Pfizer and BioNTech launch trial of Omicron-targeted Covi... by r00fus on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @06:51PM (#30079827)
Omicron has been like 90%+ of the cases reported for the last month in almost every jurisdiction. A month ago you might have been able to say that but today it's pretty clear that almost all the cases will have been Omicron.
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Re:Pfizer and BioNTech launch trial of Omicron-targeted Covi... by nradov on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @08:14PM (#30080411)
Terminal patients don't die immediately, it usually takes several weeks. Omicron only crossed the 90% threshold of sequenced cases the week of 01/01/2022.

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#variant-proportion...

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Re:Pfizer and BioNTech launch trial of Omicron-targeted Covi... by groby_b on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @11:25AM (#30087491)
Yes, and deaths have been steadily rising since then.
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