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FOR CORONACOASTER: COVID-19 News, Info, Discussion /// Tracking the Spread of the Virus and its Effects
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RWF: Looks more like Omicron is milder to me. And the vaccines don't work at stopping transmission or infection (they seem to help it! Whether that is immunological or promiscuity driven is another debate..). At best, the vaccines are a theraputic to lessen symptoms - but even there it seems there is a bill to pay after 3 months, where the chance of symptomatic infection goes over and above the unvaccinated chance. So mild in fact, that the national guard has been called into many states. People gotta stop using that no meaning word "mild". It is milder. In the uk we have falling Mechanically Ventillated beds (777 yesterday, down from 900 on 4th Jan), despite our peak of 220k cases being 10 days ago (so those would be now registering, going in to hospital and some on vents).. Hostpital beds are being freed up at roughly the same rate of admissions now, so we will soon have falling occupancy in the general COVID wards, too. It infects via the endocytosis route; cannot enter lung cells very well - gets stuck in the upper respiratory area. Probably won't cause the organ failure either as it can't use the ACE2/TMPRSS2 route well. Still, I'll be watching for now. Not going licking doorknobs just yet.. Milder as in not on mechanical technology to survive? If we didn't have this technology, what people are experiencing would not be mild at all. They would be dead. Even those who are not hospitalized are not experiencing it as mild. We need to stop creating a scale based on the most sophisticated life saving technologies out there. Mild for people at home is 103-104 fever, sever body aches, severe soar throat, fatigue, GI problems, night sweats, etc. Mild is a hangnail.
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