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Re:What the Omicron wave is revealing about human immunity by Sparkle-san on Thursday February 03, 2022 @01:14PM (#30196254)
Vaccines are still shown to reduce risk of hospitalization and death even with omicron. So, if everyone is going to get it, wouldn't you rather be more protected when you get it?
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Re:What the Omicron wave is revealing about human immunity by twofornone on Thursday February 03, 2022 @03:51PM (#30198635)
The risk of hospitalization for children is virtually zero. The risk of hospitalization for healthy people under 50 is miniscule.
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Re:What the Omicron wave is revealing about human immunity by the_why_of_y on Thursday February 03, 2022 @06:12PM (#30200383)
Risk of hospitalization for children aged < 5 years with Omicron is quite a bit higher than previous variants. Take a look at the CDC data, compare age groups this year vs. one year earlier.

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#covidnet-hospitali...

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Re:What the Omicron wave is revealing about human immunity by mikysco on Thursday February 03, 2022 @09:00PM (#30201881)
This trend exists because children are being tested for COVID after being admitted to the hospital for entirely unrelated issues (broken bones, etc). They're in the hospital _with_ COVID, not in the hospital _because_ of COVID.
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