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lchoro

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It's still a numbers game and comes down to medical system capacity util.


You don't get herd immunity from Omicron since it evades antibodies. The next variant could do it differently.

The percent of severe cases may be lower but the number hospitalized over a much larger set of infections can still overwhelm the hospital systems. It's something you have to plan for the worst, monitor the hospitals, and adjust policy.

Omicron gets past all monoclonal antibody treatments except one which is in limited supply. It supposedly doesn't bind to the lung membranes as effectively previous variants so the lower severity of the disease..

(In response to this post by ColoVT82)

Posted: 12/17/2021 at 11:54AM



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