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https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/14/health/omicron-variant-south-africa-details/index.html

Studies add to evidence Omicron sneaks past vaccines but may cause milder disease

South African researchers added new details Tuesday to what's known about the Omicron variant of coronavirus, confirming that vaccines provide less protection against the new strain but also saying they still see indications that Omicron causes milder symptoms than previous variants.

https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/omicron-covid-19-variant-11-30-21/h_801ead91dbb027b2e7f223a02b357b2d

Omicron cases have been “extremely mild” so far, South African doctor says

The US, European Union, Japan and other major destinations have moved to block flights from several African countries following the discovery of the newly identified coronavirus variant Omicron. Follow here for the latest news.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/10/health/omicron-cases-us-cdc/index.html

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Dec 21, 2021, 3:35 PM

If you don't take a #### test, you can't die from covid. The fact they have a positivity rate approaching 40% indicates they are missing many if not a majority of cases. Also, it is fascinating...... South Africa has only counted 90,400 covid deaths, EVER.

HOWEVER, since May of last year, South Africa has counted 277,683 excess deaths From 5/3/20 to 12/11/21. Guess the mobifobi or the papsilab must have also been going around. If you subtract the 90,400 known covid deaths from that 277,000 total excess deaths, you end up with what...186,000 more dead people than normal who died since covid started, from something NOT covid (but probably is). I'd guess it's the papsilab if I had to guess. Even in the US we're approaching 200,000 excess deaths since covid started, and that's people above normal levels who died, NOT from covid. So even we miss many covid deaths. Some never got treatment. Some were due to sub-prime medical care. Every major wave in the US even, has a fraction, 5, 10, 15% MORE deaths during a covid spike, that aren't covid. Some are, others are collateral damage, packed hospitals, overworked nurses, etc.

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https://www.samrc.ac.za/reports/report-weekly-deaths-south-africa

Report on Weekly Deaths in South Africa

In the context of the emerging COVID-19 pandemic, it has become essential to track the weekly number of deaths that occur. Deaths recorded on the National Population Register are provided to the SAMRC on a weekly basis. These have been scaled up to estimate the actual number of deaths by accounting for the people who are not on the population register and the

South Africa, while better than most African countries, has come nowhere near accurately documenting covid cases, or deaths. The excess deaths show that. There are only 5-6 countries in Africa that can even count excess deaths. So you literally have no clue about covid cases in countries that can't adequately test, and then those countries do not keep death data, period. So when you see those African countries with low cases and deaths, odds are they are not low, but you have no clue. Heck, Tanzania literally wrote off covid. They haven't had but a handful of cases since it started. They're covid free. No deaths in months. They don't even test for it. It doesn't exist there. But their President died from covid, but nevermind that...it's still not there.

Then you have some countries who actually tried to figure it out. Peru is one of them. Peru can't test every person with a cough and fever. They had positivity rates like SA at 40% or more. They had a lot of people dying. How many? The deaths they could tie to a person, who got tested, then treated, and medically diagnosed with covid, and died from covid, was a fraction of the total extra dead people they suddenly had, and they knew that. So they actually did a study and arrived at a very close approximate number, and it's better to make an educated guess at a real-world number than it is to just give the recorded and diagnosed deaths, as you know those are only a small fraction of the deaths incurred. It gave Peru the highest mortality in the world from covid, but then again they're the only country to have tried at least to estimate it.

And this is why Europe isn't buying the South African message. Everyone said wait because South African data is bad. The news from doctors treating patients and from hospital staff is encouraging, but you don't have the data to confirm that, which is why we are all waiting on Europe to get the full impact from omicron before anyone makes assumptions. Denmark, England, and NYC are what to watch. So far it seems milder though. Bad news is it's also spreading as bad (worse actually) than in South Africa. Just have to see how it pans out. 50% less severe but 200% more transmissible nets you record hospitalizations. 20 times less severe, and twice as transmissible means it's a bad cold and carry on.

But I'd count on getting it though. It will run through more people, faster, than any prior variant, whatever the damage. If 150 million people miss three days of work with a bad cold, that's a 1% off GDP net impact right there.

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Where are the piles of bodies of unvaxxed Omicron victims?

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