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It's early, but there have still been no reported Omicron deaths. If this is that less lethal variant that we have all been waiting for, what's the call here?
by legitster 5y ago
It's early, but there have still been no reported Omicron deaths.
If this is that less lethal variant that we have all been waiting for, what's the call here? Should we be intentionally helping spread it to edge out Delta?
- phkahler 5y agoA non-lethal, highly contagious version of the virus is a sort of natural vaccine. I wouldn't try to spread it, but I could see people trying to catch it. I've had Covid (maybe twice) and that was quite enough for me.
- newbamboo 5y agoOdd, I’ve had it 4 or 5 times maybe and only the first was like the real flu. But the long COVID is an annoyance. I did get the vaxxx do maybe that’s why the later rounds were so mild.
- GGfpc 5y agoDid you get tests to confirm that all of those cases were covid?
- bredren 5y agoWould you share the general lifestyle you’ve lived where you’ve been exposed and taken even mildly ill from covid four or five times? For example, unmasked attendance to large sporting events, etc?
- hereforphone 5y agoAre masks supposed to protect you, or protect others from you?
- catlikesshrimp 5y agoAll masks are for protecting others from your virus. Microfiber N95 is used for making masks that protect you IF is used properly ( real material, disposable, snug fit)
- hereforphone 5y agoAs I understand it as well. Catching the virus is more likely from touching surfaces coated with the virus then touching one's face, or something similar. Interesting (though not surprising) that my question above has been downvoted. This is a touchy topic where political alignment sometimes supersedes even the will to reason.
- unmole 5y ago> Catching the virus is more likely from touching surfaces coated No. Fomite transmission is extremely unlikely.
- kleton 5y agoMost likely, child-having
- jtbayly 5y agoDo you have any evidence for having children leading to greater likelihood of catching Covid?
- trevyn 5y agoApparently there was even a small protective effect from children in the household, though this went away after schools reopened. One of the hypotheses in this paper is cross-immunity with other circulating coronaviruses: https://adc.bmj.com/content/archdischild/early/2021/03/17/archdischild-2021-321604.full.pdf https://adc.bmj.com/content/archdischild/early/2021/03/17/ar... Based on this, I will continue my practice of licking subway handrails instead of religiously “sanitizing” everything like the person preparing to sit next to me just did.
- kleton 5y agoMore specifically, having kids in preschool guarantees exposure to every respiratory virus going around.
- mmastrac 5y agoHow does one catch it that many times? Are you in the health care space? Genuinely curious.
- catlikesshrimp 5y agoYour immunity is not effective enough (sorry, blame you, your ancestors or your vaccine manufacturer ) or you were infected by a variant with enough differences in its antigens that it counts as a different virus.
- ChuckNorris89 5y ago>But the long COVID is an annoyance. What exactly do you mean by that? Were you left with some permanent symptoms?
- listless 5y agoIf this is true, you are a bit of a “miracle of nature”. Catching it twice is highly unlikely. You’ve had it so many times you can’t remember if it was 4 or 5.
- wrycoder 5y agoDoubling every 1.2 days, but “Only a single patient on oxygen was fully vaccinated but the reason for the oxygen was Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease”.
- graeme 5y agoNot with immune evasion. Then you’re only protected from what you had.
- nradov 5y agoImmunity or evasion thereof is never 100%. Natural immunity from prior infection with another variant is certain to provide at least some protection against Omicron but it may be limited.
- graeme 5y agoHopefully. Those with prior immunity to other coronaviruses actually did worse. The superantigen in SARS-Cov-2 activates the T cells for those viruses. They don’t protect and instead attack the body.
- andrewflnr 5y agoNot without solid evidence that they're actually in competition, to say the least. If it turns out you can easily get both, then spreading the less lethal variant does nothing good.
- jimbob45 5y agoThere’s long COVID to track on Omicron as well.
- nostrademons 5y agoNeed hard data that it's actually less lethal, which means waiting a month or so from the uptick in cases to make sure no hospitalizations or death actually occur. If it is, spread away. If it's not, and has similar mortality to the original strain but with immune escape and better transmissibility, you've screwed us all.
- emptysongglass 5y agoWe still don't know how long a person who has recovered from COVID-19 experiences cognitive impairment. If it's never, catching it is not a sacrifice I'd ever want to make. If it's of a reasonable duration after which you return to baseline and it's not lethal, fine.
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- noodlesUK 5y agoThe loss of taste/smell and risk of cognitive symptoms are really the things that worry me personally about covid. Like many on this site, I’m vaccinated and fairly young, but a world with messed up smells and taste or not being able to do the things I find fulfilling are pretty scary prospects, and there’s very little data that I’ve seen about incidence rates.
- nradov 5y agoWell you're going to get infected eventually no matter what you do, so discussion of sacrifices is rather irrelevant. https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/vinay-prasad/94646 https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/vinay-prasad/94646
- tigershark 5y agoPlease give me the winning numbers for Euromillions since apparently you can see the future and you absolutely know that everyone is going to get covid.
- kadoban 5y ago"it's early" is carrying a lot of weight there. Covid deaths mostly take a while, judging by past waves/variants.
- micromacrofoot 5y agoseems like most reported cases have been vaccinated folks so it’s much too early to say
- pama 5y agoFrom the report: “ The best indicator of disease severity is measured by the in-hospital death rate. There were 10 deaths in the SBAH/TDH cohort in the past two weeks, making up 6.6% of the 166 admissions. Four deaths were in adults aged 26 – 36 and five (5) deaths were in adults over 60. One death was in a child in whom the cause of deaths was unrelated to COVID.”