US omicron surge now

Omicron in the US is rip roaring away

SA data

https://www.nicd.ac.za/diseases-a-z-index/disease-index-covid-19/surveillance-reports/daily-hospital-surveillance-datcov-report/

Omicron variant, Houston Methodist patients

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/health-science/2021/12/17/415844/omicron-variant-is-now-responsible-for-nearly-half-of-houston-methodists-covid-19-cases/

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/health-science/2021/12/15/415577/houston-hospitals-see-a-covid-19-uptick-as-omicron-and-delta-continue-to-spread/

Omicron variant, doubling every two to three days

At least 45% of Methodist’s COVID-19 patients were omicron as of Friday

Wednesday, 32% COVID-19 tests on symptomatic patients

Saturday, (4 days before) 13%

Half of the hospital’s omicron patients have been vaccinated with either two or three doses

Four times as many positive COVID-19 test results since last week

Fueled by the continued spread of the omicron variant

Dr. Marc Boom, Methodist president and CEO

If this spreads so rapidly that there are massive numbers of infected people,

even if on average they’re very mild, if that hits the vulnerable in our population and they end up hospitalized, that can still be an incredibly challenging time

S. Wesley Long, medical director of diagnostic microbiology

Very likely reach 100% of all COVID-19 cases within the hospital by January

That would be a faster sweep than even the delta variant, which took about a three-month span to sweep prior variants and achieve 100%,

It is also possible that delta remains in some equilibrium with omicron over time

US

Cases

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_dailycases

Hospitalizations

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#hospitalizations

Rip roaring away

Could bring the highest level of cases yet

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/12/20/covid-omicron-variant-live-updates/

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio

we are seeing a very substantial rise in the number of cases in a way we haven’t seen previously

New York adults had at least one dose, 94%

People with 2 doses, 70% (10% above national rate)

Dr. Anthony Fauci

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/fauci-warns-omicron-variant-raging-world-rcna9293

raging around the world

Omicron variant is really something to be reckoned with

Our hospitals, if things look like they're looking now, in the next week or two are going to be very stressed

because, again, we have so many people in this country who are eligible to be vaccinated who have not yet been vaccinated

The hospitalization to case ratio appears to be smaller than delta

We are going to see breakthrough infections, there's no doubt about that

The difference between a vaccinated and boosted person who has an infection and someone who has an infection who's never been vaccinated,

there's a major difference with regard to the risk of severity

President Biden, winter plan tomorrow

Lots of flights

Broadway cancelled

Sports events cancelled

Education going remote

UK surge

Omicron
Cases, + 12,133 + 8,044 = 45,145
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1042543/20211220_OS_Daily_Omicron_Overview.pdf

https://covid.joinzoe.com/data#levels-over-time

https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk

London hospital admissions

Professor Niels Hoiby

Denmark

Total vaccinated with mRNA vaccine = 4,304,710

Total myocarditis + pericarditis = 129 (0.003%)

One case in 33,369

Norway

Total vaccinated with mRNA vaccine = 3.765.354

Total myocarditis + pericarditis = 274 (0.0073%)

One case in 13,743

2.4 times more cases in Norway

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