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to put things in a perspective: "At least 16 U.S. states have reported Omicron cases: California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachus
by rolph 5y ago
to put things in a perspective:
"At least 16 U.S. states have reported Omicron cases: California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Utah, Washington and Wisconsin, according to a Reuters tally.
Many of the cases were among fully vaccinated individuals with mild symptoms, although the booster shot status of some patients was not reported.
Despite several dozen Omicron cases, the Delta variant still accounts for 99.9% of new COVID cases in the United States, CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky told ABC News in an interview."
taken from the article
- lucas_membrane 5y ago>> the Delta variant still accounts for 99.9% of new COVID cases in the United States ourworldindata.org reports, as-of 6 December 2021, the share of analyzed sequences in the last two weeks that correspond to omicron is 14% in the USA and 10% in Canada. (https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus) Did Dr Wallensky give any hints about the source of her statistic, if it was based on analyzed sequences, or over what observation period it was derived? Why the big difference in estimates of the present significance of omicron?
- rsynnott 5y agoOne possible skewing factor is that suspect omicron cases can often be determined by just looking at the PCR, so these probably get priority for sequencing. If the US generally isn't doing very much random sequencing, this is about what you'd expect.