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Omicron is not mild to the unvaccinated.. and as a result, to the hospital infrastructure.

• qbasic_forever 5y ago
  50% of people recently hospitalized in King county, Washington, (where Seattle is located) are vaccinated: https://kingcounty.gov/depts/health/covid-19/data/vaccination-outcomes.aspx https://kingcounty.gov/depts/health/covid-19/data/vaccinatio... It appears for some vaccinated people Omicron is not mild either.
  • foxyv 5y ago
    Keep in mind that 69% of the population in Washington is vaccinated. This will skew the proportion of hospitalized towards the vaccinated. Vaccination seems to be about 70% effective at preventing serious disease requiring hospitalization. So yeah, not mild in vaccinated people either, just less horrifyingly bad. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2119270 https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2119270
    • Ancapistani 5y ago
      It’s not quite that simple, because the proportion of the population who are vaccinated isn’t representative of the whole.