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Lynne (Dramlin) posted an update Monday, Dec 20, 2021, 6:01pm EST, 2 years, 5 months ago
Jim The vaccinations don't stop people getting the virus, they stop most people getting very sick and dying when they do get the virus. The new variant is around twice as infectious as the delta variant -- the number of cases is doubling in around 2 days instead of the four it took delta. We don't yet have the data to tell if omicron is worse in other ways than transmissibility, but it appears to be able to bypass some of the existing bodily defenses against other variants. From the CDC website: "The current 7-day moving average of new deaths (1,180) has increased 8.2% compared with the previous 7-day moving average (1,090). As of December 15, 2021, a total of 800,939 COVID-19 deaths have been reported in the United States."
Over a thousand deaths a week. It's nothing like the 'flu