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> a more infectious strain of Delta What? Omicron is a more infectious version of Delta. Omicron causes the same number of deaths and hospitalisations and lon
by DanBC 5y ago
> a more infectious strain of Delta
What? Omicron is a more infectious version of Delta.
Omicron causes the same number of deaths and hospitalisations and long covid as delta. It just also infects a lot more people more easily, and those people are at low risk and push the CFR down.
- rsfern 5y agoAs the data becomes more available from South Africa, the UK, and Denmark, it’s starting to look like Omicron is a more infectious version of the wild type, maybe 40% less virulent than Delta, at least in terms of putting people in the hospital. There’s still not enough data to conclude about mortality. The good news is that prior immunity seems to confer a large degree of protection from severe illness still https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/YBB9yZNJuz5j8hLdP/omicron-post-9 https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/YBB9yZNJuz5j8hLdP/omicron-po...
- DanBC 5y agohttps://twitter.com/dgurdasani1/status/1475061938010865665?s=20 https://twitter.com/dgurdasani1/status/1475061938010865665?s... > Your risk of getting hospitalised with SARS-CoV-2 (any variant) depends on two things? 1. how likely are you to get infected? 2. what is your chance of getting hospitalised once infected > In simple terms, because omicron can escape immunity from past infections and vaccines, your protection against infection against omicron is vastly lower than with delta. This means risk of 1. is vastly increased- as you're less protected & also v. high background transmission.
- oh_sigh 5y agoOmicron isn't a version of Delta.
- DanBC 5y ago