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Omicron isn't significantly more contagious than Delta for the unvaccinated, however. It's just that the vaccinated can spread omicron, so anyone who wasn't vac
by mullingitover 5y ago
Omicron isn't significantly more contagious than Delta for the unvaccinated, however. It's just that the vaccinated can spread omicron, so anyone who wasn't vaccinated and managed to dodge infection for this long is now in nightmare-level difficulty when it comes to remaining uninfected.
- nradov 5y agoOmicron appears to be significantly more contagious than Delta for everyone including the unvaccinated. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2600(21)00559-2/fulltext https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2...
- mullingitover 5y agoThere's a preprint for a study of 12,000 households in Denmark that seems to offer evidence to the contrary[1]. Take my earlier claim with a grain of salt, I'm not an epidemiologist, but this is what an epidemiologist told me. > Surprisingly, we observed no significant difference between the SAR of Omicron versus Delta among unvaccinated individuals (Table 3). This indicates that the increased transmissibility of the Omicron VOC primarily can be ascribed to immune evasion rather than an inherent increase in the basic transmissibility. If this observation can be confirmed by independent studies, it has important ramifications for the understanding of the current challenges for control of the epidemic [1] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.27.21268278v1.full.pdf https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.27.21268278v...