12-22-2021, 03:27 PM
(12-22-2021, 01:10 PM)ac3r Wrote: You've got to look at all of the data coming out of the US, EU, Canada, Asia, the WHO, the CDC et al. If you Google search "omicron mild" and you get a plethora of reports from countries all around the world stating that it doesn't appear to be any worse than what we've seen before and in some cases is having even less of an impact on people likely due to accrued natural immunity or vaccination, which is what we wanted all along.
OK, so maybe the risk of hospitalization in today's population is 80% less than it was before, but we're still in for bad times if the number of cases grows more than 5 times, as it seems likely to.
The number of hospitalizations in Quebec is currently 445, which is slightly more than double the number from a month ago today, although admittedly lower than the peaks we've seen before (1800 in May 2020, 1516 in January 2021). But it's still quite early.
https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-n...ecember-22