COVID-19: Chapter 9 - OMGicron

[CanadaMatt3004]

Hey, bozos.

We are an international coalition of folks. I’m sure any of our posters from anywhere else have no interest in a dick measuring contest between the US and UK.

Nationalism is stupid. We all suck. Knock it off.

[prana]

[CanadaMatt3004]

This works as well

[m_reed05]

I was on the fence about taking my 4 year 10 month old to get a vaccine, but I think omicron has put me over the edge. Anyone want to talk me out of it?

[LFS]

According to a woman’s t-shirt at the dog vaccination clinic I just went to, the final COVID variant is COMMUNISM!

[j8i3h289dn3x7]

@Hired_Goons

WTF BBC

Omicron symptoms mild so far, says South African doctor who spotted it - BBC News

Bbc has been lol bad most of the pandemic. Like newsmax bad.

[j8i3h289dn3x7]

As in he turns 5 in 2 months? That’s a tough call. I’d probably do it if I could.

[j8i3h289dn3x7]

Relative to the BBC which ones have been better? NY Times, CNN, Washington Post, MSNBC, Fox News, NPR, Nate Silver,random posters on unstuck, random posters on 2+2, and my magic 8 ball.

[Trolly]

BBC has been fine afaict.

[Danspartan]

But not the Atlantic.

[eyebooger]

@j8i3h289dn3x7

Bbc has been lol bad most of the pandemic. Like newsmax bad.

No.

Even Fox News isn’t “Newsmax bad”.

[Melkerson]

@m_reed05

I was on the fence about taking my 4 year 10 month old to get a vaccine, but I think omicron has put me over the edge. Anyone want to talk me out of it?

Do it.

[Rugby]

Guardian has been solid.

[m_reed05]

Yea she turns 5 in early February. I also have a boy that just turned one. He’s in 2T clothes but I don’t think he can quite pass as 5 yet. I tried unsuccessfully to find a vaccine trial to enroll them in.

[m_reed05]

https://twitter.com/michaelmina_lab/status/1465126369608744968?t=jsGp3-qL1b7v1x8z0Fcr0A&s=19

[Trolly]

@Danspartan

But not the Atlantic.

[eyebooger]

@JohnnyTruant

Is there any news of severe outcomes for this variant?

A few anecdotes here and there, but nothing I’ve seen that can justify any sort of broad conclusions.

It sucks, but we’re still very much in the unknown phase with regard to this variant.

[ChrisV]

@JohnnyTruant

Right but if it is causing this spike in cases in SA and already being detected around the world, it must have been around long enough to have some people well in the symptomatic stage. The way we heard about all the early breakthrough cases constantly and the eyes on this it just seems weird we don’t hear anything even anecdotal getting blasted out.

There are only 172 known cases, most of whom are either young or early in their disease progression or both.

[Melkerson]

@ChrisV

@JohnnyTruant

Right but if it is causing this spike in cases in SA and already being detected around the world, it must have been around long enough to have some people well in the symptomatic stage. The way we heard about all the early breakthrough cases constantly and the eyes on this it just seems weird we don’t hear anything even anecdotal getting blasted out.

There are only 172 known cases, most of whom are either young or early in their disease progression or both.

I’m pretty sure he understands that. What he is saying there are probably X older and unknown cases. If omicron was associated with much more severe outcomes, we might hear anecdotes about clusters with worse outcomes. If we haven’t heard about such clusters it could be because omicron is really not that bad or it could be for a variety of other reasons.

This assumes X is pretty large, which isn’t a terribly unreasonable assumption.

[ChrisV]

@Melkerson

I’m pretty sure he understands that. What he is saying there are probably X older and unknown cases. If omicron was associated with much more severe outcomes, we might hear anecdotes about clusters with worse outcomes. If we haven’t heard about such clusters it could be because omicron is really not that bad or it could be for a variety of other reasons.

This assumes X is pretty large, which isn’t a terribly unreasonable assumption.

The first sample was collected 20 days ago and we know that these outbreaks tend to proceed slowly at first and undergo sudden explosions, so I wouldn’t necessarily assume there’s a huge iceberg of old cases out there.