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There'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
by mullingitover 5y ago
There'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...