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Emergency rooms and ICUs are barely keeping up right now. Full infection of the country will be devastating. ER and ICU staffing is already way short of what we
by foxyv 5y ago
Emergency rooms and ICUs are barely keeping up right now. Full infection of the country will be devastating. ER and ICU staffing is already way short of what we need. Supplies are low. An omicron vaccine will help stave this off for now. In addition, the smaller the pool of infected individuals, the slower the mutation rate will be.
- xiphias2 5y agoAs a Pfizer triple vaccinated person I would prefer getting Omicron to its descendant that is even farther away from what I'm protected from. The immune system is capable of reacting to series of smaller mutations much better than a big one. This is one of the main ways of developing a series of vaccines that lead to HIV immunity right now.
- EricE 5y agoEmergency rooms are overloaded only because most states have ignored treatments that are effective at not only keeping people out of the hospital but resolving symptoms within a week, readily available, not costly (aha!) and very safe, long used drugs that are well understood. A self inflicted wound is hardly a reason for continued panic. Now that the brain dead vaccine mandates are being shot down staffing should also start to resolve itself. Again, the VAST majority of issues with COVID are self inflicted - driven by politics and severely misguided social pressure.