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Re:What the Omicron wave is revealing about human immunity by freeflight on Thursday February 03, 2022 @09:00PM (#30201882)
> I think confusion comes from the use of “COVID-19” which is not a virus or infection specifically but a disease caused by sars-ncov2 infection.

It's fascinating how two years into this pandemic this is still such a huge communication issue, quite reminiscent of AIDS and HIV.

I wonder how much of that is impacting the reported numbers, in Germany it sure enough did; Hospitals were reporting every patient that tested positive as COVID-19 patient, even when they where in the hospital for a completely different reason and had no disease outbreak.

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Re:What the Omicron wave is revealing about human immunity by Izkata on Friday February 04, 2022 @09:45AM (#30207347)
It's the same in the US, 40% of "covid hospitalizations" were hospitalized for other reasons and then tested positive.

https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1480679058488836097

Also note at the end he says "asymptomatic covid", which gets right back to the confusion between sars-cov-2 and covid-19.

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