COVID-19 Outbreak Information Updates (Reboot) [over 150.000,000 US cases (est.), 6,422,520 US hospitilizations, 1,148,691 US deaths.]

brandon8283 said
I don't think you have friends, man.

I don't even want to try to count how many people I know personally who got omicron, but I'll throw out a few.

A business acquaintance of mine in her 30s got it, then her husband who is 40 got it, then their three kids, all under 10, got it.

A close friend and his wife (both 20s) got it.

My wife in her 30s got it. I got sick the same week but never tested positive, but it was a pretty big coincidence.

Three close colleagues (50s, 40s, 20s) at work got it.

A former student (20) got it.

My pastor (30s) and his whole family got it, as well as a guy in the church in his 40s that got it, a girl in her late 20s that got it.

And then my mom's friend in her 50s that got it and passed.

This is just me spitballing off the top of my head. If I kept going, this list would grow. So many people were affected by this wave.

Though we dont know what variant, nobody is being told. I know people whom has caught what is suspected Omicron to come deathly sick and I know that can happen with Omicron but at a supposed reduced chance of becoming highly ill and others who are barely sick for a week. During the height of the Delta wave my wife's cousin caught Covid and became deathly ill (ICU), everyone assumed it was Delta, come to find out he had the original Covid from Wave 2, his daughter worked at the hospital and pulled some strings to find out the variant and it was not Delta. Maybe there is no easyway to find out the variant in a short time period to help an individual but it seems like it would help to inform the infected individual of the strain so they can seek proper care and not write it off as "oh its just Omicron".