My take is that it is very mild based on a surge of cases in my area. A ton of people are getting sick. Some are testing and some aren't but few are headed to hospital and those that do are among the more nervous Nellie count. This differs a a lot from Delta but then again I also thought if was mild. This is just milder. Cold like. Not even a fever now. It's really overrated.
My take is that it is very mild based on a surge of cases in my area. A ton of people are getting sick. Some are testing and some aren't but few are headed to hospital and those that do are among the more nervous Nellie count. This differs a a lot from Delta but then again I also thought if was mild. This is just milder. Cold like. Not even a fever now. It's really overrated.
I had Covid a year ago, whatever was the then current version. It was also mild in the sense that I did not go to a hospital (I did go to an outpatient clinic on Day 1 to get tested and get help with stomach flu-like symptoms).
Me too, except no clinic. I self prescribed quercetin and zinc three days, it passed with mild symptoms. "Confirmed" 3 months later with antibody test, which also has a record of false positives. Wife had symptoms few months later during delta wave, same treatment, same result. No symptoms for me. Whole lot of uncertainties in analyzing this episode. Many careers in psychology will be made from this panic.
I've been keeping an eye on Canadian data and one thing I've noticed... The spread is mostly in younger populations, so far. Nursing homes, where a ridiculous amount of deaths occurred, should have an easier to around just due to the exposure in previous waves, so it may look milder. Most cases of covid for the young or middle aged were quite mild before (my in laws had late last year, one barely had a fever and the other a mild cough). I expect the most virus naive populations will have a harder time. I will try to keep tabs on hospitalizations up north where data is available.
That's the problem with a lot of these early studies. They ignore the fact that initial Omicron spread has been mostly among the young - in every country. However, as that shifts more to the old, as every wave has, then we see the true severity.
My take is that it is very mild based on a surge of cases in my area. A ton of people are getting sick. Some are testing and some aren't but few are headed to hospital and those that do are among the more nervous Nellie count. This differs a a lot from Delta but then again I also thought if was mild. This is just milder. Cold like. Not even a fever now. It's really overrated.
I had Covid a year ago, whatever was the then current version. It was also mild in the sense that I did not go to a hospital (I did go to an outpatient clinic on Day 1 to get tested and get help with stomach flu-like symptoms).
Me too, except no clinic. I self prescribed quercetin and zinc three days, it passed with mild symptoms. "Confirmed" 3 months later with antibody test, which also has a record of false positives. Wife had symptoms few months later during delta wave, same treatment, same result. No symptoms for me. Whole lot of uncertainties in analyzing this episode. Many careers in psychology will be made from this panic.
I've been keeping an eye on Canadian data and one thing I've noticed... The spread is mostly in younger populations, so far. Nursing homes, where a ridiculous amount of deaths occurred, should have an easier to around just due to the exposure in previous waves, so it may look milder. Most cases of covid for the young or middle aged were quite mild before (my in laws had late last year, one barely had a fever and the other a mild cough). I expect the most virus naive populations will have a harder time. I will try to keep tabs on hospitalizations up north where data is available.
Covid always was a mild disease -- for MOST people.
It's easy to keep the death count down - you just don't stuff infected people into old aged homes (again)
That's the problem with a lot of these early studies. They ignore the fact that initial Omicron spread has been mostly among the young - in every country. However, as that shifts more to the old, as every wave has, then we see the true severity.
I suggest you look at NYC, which as in early 2020 is ahead of the curve for rest of US. Hospitalizations there are skyrocketing, and ICU (lagged a bit) is also rising quickly: https://coronavirus.health.ny.gov/daily-hospitalization-summary