The lead chart is from Our World in Data.
As amazing as it might seem, even some Republican governors understand the issue and what’s driving it.
Please consider U.S. Hit With Record Number of New Covid-19 Cases
In Ohio, Gov. Mike DeWine on Monday described how he is focused primarily on hospitalizations as opposed to how many people were testing positive for Covid-19, a key metric earlier in the pandemic. More than 5,000 people were hospitalized with Covid-19 in Ohio on Monday, the most since last winter’s surge. However, the difference now is that authorities have a handle on what and who is driving the high inpatient count, with more than 90% of the patients unvaccinated, said Mr. DeWine, a Republican.
“We’re seeing the power of the vaccine to keep people out of the hospital,” he said.
New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu said he expects data on new infections to become inaccurate because many people won’t report home-testing results to authorities. “The key metric is going to be your hospitalization rate,” he said. “There is no gray area there.”
Republican Governors
- Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine: “More than 90% of the patients unvaccinated. We’re seeing the power of the vaccine to keep people out of the hospital.”
- New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu: “The key metric is going to be your hospitalization rate. There is no gray area there.”
- West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice: “For god’s sake’s a-livin’, how difficult is this to understand?”
- Utah Gov. Spencer Cox: “[Anti-vaccine rhetoric] “is ridiculous. It’s dangerous, it’s damaging, and it’s killing people. I mean, it’s literally killing their supporters. And that makes no sense to me.”
Utah Governor
The quotes from the Utah Governor were made back in July.
For details, please see Republican governor says anti-vaccine rhetoric is ‘killing people’ and denounces ‘propaganda’
West Virginia Governor
In West Virginia, the most Republican state in the nation Gov. Jim Justice had this to say back in September:
“For god’s sake’s a-livin’, how difficult is this to understand? Why in the world do we have to come up with these crazy ideas — and they’re crazy ideas — that the vaccine’s got something in it and its tracing people wherever they go. And the same very people who are saying that are carrying their cell phones around. I mean come on. Come on.”
Truncated, but the governor went on to add “The only weapon we have to fight back with is the vaccinations.”
No Gray Area
Indeed, there is no gray area. However, there is mass denial of that fact on Twitter from the anti-vaxxers.
They will not believe any “government” stat except of course the random outliers that say what they want to hear.
Seemingly, it’s such an amazing national conspiracy on hospitalization data, that at least four Republican governors are now caught up in the conspiracy.
Mercy!
On the Positive Side
On the positive side of the ledger, Omicron appears to be far less serious, at least for anyone with enough common sense to get vaccinated.
I suspect this latest surge will eventually get most or the unvaccinated, but the percentage of complications will be lower.
If so, by March or possibly even the end of January, most adults will have Covid antibodies.
Meanwhile, and unfortunately, the anti-vaxxers are clogging up hospitals once again so I offer this suggestion:
If you are not vaccinated, don’t go to the hospital over Covid no matter what. You made your choice, live or die with it.
The good news is you are overwhelmingly likely live. Congratulations!
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tested for COVID and they get counted as a COVID-hospitalized
individual, when, in fact, they may go in for a broken leg or
appendicitis or something like that. So it’s over counting the number of children who are, quote, hospitalized with COVID as opposed to because of COVID,”
Why do people under 20 need to be vaccinated?
NY Times isn’t mainstream media? I’ve seen this on multiple other news outlets as well. Doesn’t that mean it’s a conspiracy?
Highlights:
The number of patients treated in the hospitals during the same early period of each wave differed (2351 in wave 4 vs maximum 6342 in wave 3).
This implies fewer hospitalizations, as we know that Omicron is highly transmissible.
68% to 69% of patients presenting to the emergency department with a positive COVID-19 result were admitted to the hospital in the first 3 waves vs 41.3% in wave 4.
Showing that Omicron is resulting in fewer hospitalizations.
Patients hospitalized during wave 4 were younger (median age, 36 years vs maximum 59 years in wave 3; P < .001) with a higher proportion of females.
This is interesting and will need to be explored in more depth. Is this due to natural immunity of the elderly or that Omicron is a milder disease for the elderly than previous variants? Another hypothesis is that Omicron is not infecting deep lung tissue, so the elderly are having more mild disease compared to other waves. Few elderly might mean fewer overall hospitalizations but with a young median age.
Significantly fewer patients with co-morbidities were admitted in wave 4, and the proportion presenting with an acute respiratory condition was lower (31.6% in wave 4 vs maximum 91.2% in wave 3, P < .001).
Again, this is good news all around!
Of 971 patients admitted in wave 4, 24.2% were vaccinated, 66.4% were unvaccinated, and vaccination status was unknown for 9.4%.
How this relates to the population of vaccinated and unvaccinated is a little difficult, because the SA vaccine program has significantly increased the proportion vaccinated this fall.
The proportion of patients requiring oxygen therapy significantly decreased ( 17.6% in wave 4 vs 74% in wave 3, P < .001), as did the percentage receiving mechanical ventilation.
Again, very good news!
Admission to intensive care was 18.5% in wave 4 vs 29.9% in wave 3 (P < .001).
More mild disease, even in the severe cases!
The median length of stay (between 7 and 8 days in previous waves) decreased to 3 days in wave 4.
Another super indicator of mild disease!
The death rate was between 19.7% in wave 1 and 29.1% in wave 3 and decreased to 2.7% in wave 4.
This also, should make us all very happy!
Again – remember this data is for HOSPITALIZED PATIENTS ONLY!
A wise man said “never argue with an idiot. They’ll drag you down to their level, and beat you with experience “
Ah, the old “I k ow you are,but what am I” retort. Dr.Kookenstein clearly studied at the Pee Wee’s Playhouse SchoolOf Medicine.
OTOH, made sure my high risk parents were vacc’d. Also told them (contrary to the CDC and the MSM at the time) to still mask up, keep your distance, try to dine outside, and not assume other vacc’d people were safe. They’ve done quite well while a few of their friends who either didn’t vacc or thought it protected them like a suit of armor, not so much.
Upper respiratory tract infections (URTIs) are infections which affect the mouth, nose, throat, larynx and trachea, provoking nasorafingitis (common cold), sinusitis, pharyngitis, laryngitis and laryngotracheitis (Grief, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09540105.2021.1892594#). The positive effects of oral BC supplementation against URTIs are evident for both children and adults. Studies investigating this association show that BC was able to reduce the incidence of URTI and decrease the duration of self-reported symptoms, as shown in Table 2. However, the mechanisms for such effects are not fully elucidated (Brinkworth & Buckley, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09540105.2021.1892594#; Jones et al., https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09540105.2021.1892594#; Patel & Rana, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09540105.2021.1892594#; Saad et al., https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09540105.2021.1892594#).
hospital, they automatically get tested for COVID and they get counted
as a COVID-hospitalized individual, when, in fact, they may go in for a
broken leg or appendicitis or something like that. So
it’s over counting the number of children who are, quote, hospitalized
with COVID as opposed to because of COVID,” said Fauci.
And here we have another one that isn’t potty trained but wants to play dress up as an adult. If you’d quit eating the crayons, you wouldn’t be so grumpy.
Evil bastard.
Yes. It does. Provided fat people go to the back of the line for all diseases made worse by being an out of control slob all your life.
We can speculate that the preponderance of AABs positivity in females—in the absence of symptomatic or recognized infection—represents initiation or proliferation and then persistence of self-reactive immunity with implications for post-acute chronic immune-driven disease states. These findings may be particularly relevant to rapidly accumulating evidence of the post-acute SARS-CoV-2 syndromes (e.g. “long-haul COVID”) that can emerge even weeks to months following resolution of mild or asymptomatic infection”
The linked article is in German, This was on today’s automatic earth site.
“Additional information is known in some cases for the omicron cases available in the reporting system. Information on symptoms was submitted for 6,788 cases; predominantly no or mild symptoms were reported. The most common symptoms reported by patients were rhinitis (54%), cough (57%), and sore throat (39%). 124 patients were hospitalized and four person died. Foreign exposure was reported for 543 (5%) cases.
186 patients were unvaccinated, 4,020 were fully vaccinated, and of these, booster vaccination was reported for 1,137.
Based on the submitted data, 148 reinfections were identified among all submitted omicron infections; no previous cases were identified for any of the person affected by reinfection, previous illnesses were transmitted. Figure 9 shows the distribution of omicron cases transmitted to date in Germany. Omicron cases were detected in all federal states.”
https://www.rki.de/DE/Content/InfAZ/N/Neuartiges_Coronavirus/Situationsberichte/Wochenbericht/Wochenbericht_2021-12-30.pdf?__blob=publicationFile