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Ogurisama posted...

Lets hope omnicom burns itself out quickly cause of this

That is the hope. By spreading this quickly and effectively, it stands a chance of inducing herd immunity all on its own. Unfortunately, there's so little immune overlap between Omicron and previous variants that that's going to mean pretty much nothing for Covid overall.

BEERandWEED posted...

Lol skewed reporting is some fearmongering.

"The record single-day total may be due in part to delayed reporting from over the holiday weekend. A number of U.S. states did not report data on Dec. 31, New Years Eve, and many do not report data on weekends, meaning that some of these cases could be from positive tests taken on prior days."

But it's that reporting that explained why the spike is so high. How is that skewed/fearmongering?

That is, however, why single-day highs don't mean a whole lot. They often reflect quirks in data collection/reporting, rather than actual massive spikes. Instead, you're best off looking at the 7-day average, which is also pretty readily attainable. Yesterday's 7-day average was around 481,000, which is clearly quite a bit less than a million, but still the highest such figure recorded by a significant margin.

BEERandWEED posted...

Hospitalizations and deaths are still lower than last year.

Yesterday's 7-day average for hospitalizations was about 70% of the highest figure seen during the third wave, a record set almost exactly a year ago. That is lower, but it's currently climbing quite rapidly, and is nonetheless alarmingly high given that the vaccination rate (which is supposed to significantly lower hospitalizations, and otherwise would be) is so much higher than it was a year ago.

SKARDAVNELNATE posted...

1 in 330 makes it sound rare. Hardly worth being concerned with.

Can you name a single disease in history that has managed to infect an average of 0.15% of a given country's population every day for a week?