Vaccines alone ain’t gonna cut it.
‘No Evidence’ That Omicron is Less Severe Than Delta, Say Imperial Researchers Reuters
From a doctor friend in a DGH in England Word from the front line trenches: omicron spreads like wildfire. Omicron went from one patient in a ward, to 8 pts and 4 staff infected overnight to 5 wards full (mostly hospital acquired)4 days later. Monday was horrible Tuesday worse.— Susan Bowie #keepwearingyourmasks (@docsuzy) December 16, 2021
From a doctor friend in a DGH in England Word from the front line trenches: omicron spreads like wildfire. Omicron went from one patient in a ward, to 8 pts and 4 staff infected overnight to 5 wards full (mostly hospital acquired)4 days later. Monday was horrible Tuesday worse.
This coming wave with Omicron will probably infect at least half the world's population.If 10 percent get Long Covid, we are looking at a #MassDisablingEvent https://t.co/ls9pjzZuuv— Anthony J Leonardi, PhD, MildS (@fitterhappierAJ) December 16, 2021
This coming wave with Omicron will probably infect at least half the world's population.If 10 percent get Long Covid, we are looking at a #MassDisablingEvent https://t.co/ls9pjzZuuv
America Is Not Ready for Omicron The Atlantic. Two years squandered….
Central Banks Bet Economies Can Tolerate Omicron, Not Inflation Bloomberg
On this last point: An economic system that cannot accommodate the strategic shutting down of its materially non-essential functions, but would allow, for the sake of maintaining established relations of production, a death-dealing and disabling disease to romp through the population will likely come to a bad end.