Re:What the Omicron wave is revealing about human immunity
by LASR on Thursday February 03, 2022 @04:21PM
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Outcompeting is an immediate association between the two variants. Conferring x-variant immunity means that once you've recovered from one, you will have lasting immunity to other variants.
There is a possibility that the large majority of the population has been infected with omicron, and recovered. But then delta could come in at that point and produce another wave. At this time, the body would be much more successful at holding off omicron, but maybe not so much with delta.
So purely from the fractions of current infections, you cannot draw conclusions about x-variant immunity.
Re:What the Omicron wave is revealing about human immunity
by andai on Thursday February 03, 2022 @03:40PM
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Does anyone know where I can find graphs that show the % of infections that each variant represents over time?
Re:What the Omicron wave is revealing about human immunity
by inglor_cz on Thursday February 03, 2022 @03:51PM
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I used to see them all the time on Reddit in the r/Coronavirus subreddit.
Searching very quickly, I found this from Dec 21, 2021:
https://www.statnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/c7efM-om...
Re:What the Omicron wave is revealing about human immunity
by nradov on Thursday February 03, 2022 @05:23PM
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The CDC publishes weekly data on variant percentages.
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#variant-proportion...
It is my impression that it actually does, and that is why Delta was outcompeted so fast. If it didn't, both strains would likely co-circulate together.