Originally posted by Juvenal
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On Monday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that Omicron, which accounted for less than 1 percent of new Covid-19 cases in the United States as December began, now accounts for nearly three-quarters of new cases, underlining how stunningly infectious it is.
Omicron has already won in the US.
Omicron took less than three weeks to overcome Delta, which means my envelope calculations at six weeks, which I thought were aggressive, were instead highly conservative. Additional data suggest that Omicron isn’t so much less deadly as it is less selective. Everyone is getting it including the young, driving death rates down by weighting in healthier individuals. More, those who were fully vaccinated as little as three months ago are at risk of breakthrough infection, and those who were fully vaccinated six months ago are at high risk.
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