Re:Tell HN: China Is Entering Lockdown
by ZYinMD on Sunday March 13, 2022 @08:11AM
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I wouldn't bet on Omicron being non-threatening. Omicron is less threatening not because it's weaker, but because people have been either vaccinated or exposed before. Now the question is how effective are Chinese vaccines against Omicron (in terms of making symptoms less severe). Still needs to wait and see, probably in the coming weeks.
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"Omicron is less threatening not because it's weaker, but because people have been either vaccinated or exposed before."
Omicron likes the bronchi more than the lungs, which translates into a lot less pneumonia cases. That is the reason why so few people die of Omicron.
"so few" ... yet enough that our area stayed in maximum stage for an awful long time after case counts came down because the ICU system was so clogged by the unvaccinated.
The lag was because a lot of those people left in body bags. And the ones who survived left in pretty bad shape.
Omicron may not be as fatal percentage-wise, but it's still plenty fatal and a LOT more contagious so it's got numbers on its side.