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I'd love to see a numbers breakdown estimating the impact Omicron would have on the US if we had a nearly complete (say 90%) vaccination rate. How many infectio

I'd love to see a numbers breakdown estimating the impact Omicron would have on the US if we had a nearly complete (say 90%) vaccination rate. How many infections would we be seeing, how many hospitalizations, how many people in the ICU? How much would this strain our healthcare system? And how would that compare with, say, the flu?

xkbarkar 5y ago
Iceland is 92% vaccinated double and I think 60% of them triple. Half the famn population is in isoliation because of infection. Feel free to check their covid stats in covid.is ( they have an english version ). Most hospitalized are fully vaccinated ( 2 or 3 ) Most serious cases are unvaccinated, HOWEVER. Out of 34 hospitalized with c19 6 were patients in cardiology that got infected in the hospital and had to be tranferred to c19. Authorities have not wanted to comment if any of the serious c19 cases came from people who were already seriously ill, already hospitalized and not vaccinated due to that. Since the ICU numbers are so small, this significance is easily skewed. Much less hospitalizations than the models predicted.
- xkbarkar 5y ago
  Id like to add. C19 severity has a very clear link to obesity, Iceland is one of europes most obese peoples. If omicron is not filling the iceland c19 ward ( I think we are up to 30 patiens out of thousands of active cases ). then I think this wave will pass as more of a scare than anything else. It certainly disproves the usefulness of vaccine passports. But that particular science is of course not followed. Sigh