COVID-19 Outbreak Information Updates (Reboot) [over 150.000,000 US cases (est.), 6,422,520 US hospitilizations, 1,148,691 US deaths.] (7 Viewers)

[faceman]

I remember reading about Covid parties happening in the early weeks of the pandemic
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Experts have warned against trying to catch Omicron at so-called COVID-19 parties following reports of people attempting to deliberately contract the disease.

"I've heard some very scary stories about parties of people and trying to get infected. That is very unsafe," Dr Maria Van Kerkhove, technical COVID-19 lead at the World Health Organization, said in a briefing Tuesday.

Reports have emerged from around the world of people trying to catch the virus for reasons including obtaining natural immunity or to obtain health certificates without having to get a vaccine. Others have reportedly tried to catch the virus in an attempt to avoid disruption to future events. Switzerland made so-called COVID-19 parties illegal, local news reported on December 23.

Experts warned against the perception that the dominant Omicron variant results in milder disease as a reason for people to think it is safe to try to get themselves infected.

Dr. Robert Murphy, executive director of the Havey Institute for Global Health at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, told CNN that intentionally getting COVID-19 had caught on "like wildfire".

"And it's widespread, coming from all types of people, the vaccinated and boosted and the anti-vaxxers," he said Tuesday. "You'd be crazy to try to get infected with this. It's like playing with dynamite," he added..............

MSN

www.msn.com

we had a few here that did this when the alpha strain first hit the U.S. They know who they are. Imo they they survived
a game of russian roulette and

Another article about why people shouldn’t try to intentionally catch Covid
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Many people have asked me the same question in recent days: If omicron is a milder variant, and contracting it provides additional immunity, why not get it over with?

Even previously cautious individuals are asking whether they should intentionally expose themselves to covid-19. If they’re going to get the coronavirus sooner or later, why not get it now?

I understand people’s weariness with the pandemic and continue to believe that the vaccinated should not have restrictions imposed on them.

But here are four reasons people shouldn’t deliberately try to catch the coronavirus:


Hospitals are full. It is true that omicron is milder than previous variants. The vast majority of vaccinated and boosted people will not end up hospitalized if they are infected. But some will become severely ill.

Hospitals are at or over capacity in many parts of the country, and hospitalizations from covid-19 have just exceeded the previous peak from last winter.

If you are sick enough to need care, you may have to wait hours in the emergency room for treatment and then spend days in the ER waiting for a hospital bed…….

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/01/12/want-just-get-omicron-get-it-over-with-heres-why-you-shouldnt/

The most important reason wasn't mentioned. If you purposely catch Covid it may be the last decision you ever make.
I've lost 3 friends who thought they would be among the 99% who survived.

 

[Eeyore]

 

[Saint_Ward]

Coronavirus humor

Debated whether this should go here or in the serious thread because, you know . . . some people seriously do this.Just let Darwin run it's course at this point.

saintsreport.com

Not sure the 2nd one is funny though...

 

[Eeyore]

Coronavirus humor

Debated whether this should go here or in the serious thread because, you know . . . some people seriously do this.Just let Darwin run it's course at this point.

saintsreport.com

Not sure the 2nd one is funny though...

There's another thread for the funny ones.

 

[bclemms]

Study: 91% fewer deaths from omicron than delta

There were also shorter hospital stays for omicron patients

www.ny1.com

The researchers analyzed the medical records of 69,279 patients at Kaiser Permanente of Southern California who tested positive for COVID-19 from Nov. 30 to Jan. 1. Three-quarters were infected with the highly transmissible omicron variant, and the rest by delta.

The analysis found there was a 53% reduction in symptomatic hospitalization, a 74% reduction in admission into intensive care units and a 91% reduction in deaths — one from omicron compared to 14 from delta.

No patients with omicron required mechanical ventilation, compared to 11 cases with delta infections. And those who were hospitalized with the omicron variant had shorter hospital stays — a median of 1.5 days versus five days.

Reductions in disease severity were evident among both vaccinated and unvaccinated patients, the researchers found.

I want to see some bigger, more diverse peer reviewed studies before rolling with this as fact. However, that is right in line with what I was guessing a few weeks ago.

If true Omicron is less deadly than the flu and for the vaccinated probably in line with the common cold. At least in a per case accounting. Omicron is also crazy contagious so it can still cause a lot of problems with so many impacted at once.

 

[faceman]

Not sure the 2nd one is funny though...

It wasn't meant to be.

 

[SaintInBucLand]

I want to see some bigger, more diverse peer reviewed studies before rolling with this as fact. However, that is right in line with what I was guessing a few weeks ago.

If true Omicron is less deadly than the flu and for the vaccinated probably in line with the common cold. At least in a per case accounting. Omicron is also crazy contagious so it can still cause a lot of problems with so many impacted at once.

Dr. Walensky was touting this very study today.

Press Briefing by White House COVID-19 Response Team and Public Health Officials | The White House

Via Teleconference 11:04 A.M. ESTMR. ZIENTS: Good morning. And thanks for joining us.Today, Dr. Walensky will share the latest on

www.whitehouse.gov

 

[Doug B]

Dr. Walensky was touting this very study today.

She's trotted ahead on thin data before.

Having said that, I pretty much agree with bclemms -- probably right, but not yet time to spike the football.

 

[nolaswede]

I know Lousiana hit another record today when it comes to cases, but what about New Orleans? What site do y’all use to see the different +- cases for each parish? Since the cities seemed to get it first, hopefully New Orleans has already reached it’s peak, or within a day or two.

 

[Saint_Ward]

I know Lousiana hit another record today when it comes to cases, but what about New Orleans? What site do y’all use to see the different +- cases for each parish? Since the cities seemed to get it first, hopefully New Orleans has already reached it’s peak, or within a day or two.

I just go to the NY Times covid map. I literally Google that. I didn't save the url. Then click on a state. It's free access.Hopkins.

Edit: just because I'm nice like that. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/covid-cases.html

Otherwise, Louisiana department of health.

Or John's hopkins.

 

[Saint_Ward]

BTW, here is Orleans Parish. Not sure if it actually peaked, or it is an artifact of the data. Low positive cases reported one day, then no testing reported.

 

[Bayouboy]

Does anyone know why this variant seems to be unaffected by the vaccine? I haven't really looked at the numbers, but it seems like everyone will catch this thing within the next week or two (or you won't get it at all). Hopefully, this could really kick he virus in the nuts as there will be no one else to infect!

 

[SamAndreas]

BTW, here is Orleans Parish. Not sure if it actually peaked, or it is an artifact of the data. Low positive cases reported one day, then no testing reported.

I like that. This boards software allows for nice stuff to be done.

You mentioned not being "sure if it actually peaked, or it is an artifact of the data." Then you explained a day with no data. Which would think was probably a weekend day when offices were closed. My guess would be in agreement, that is could be, or is likely to be, a false peak caused by the pace of the data coming in.

I'm worried about a different kind of artifact of data giving us the illusion that this will be a spike kind of surge, Straight up, followed by straight down. And have that illusion being caused by locations, and even whole states running low, or even completely out of the tests needed to create sufficient data point to map the reality.

That we could see graphs that show things getting better when they are not getting better.

 

[LogeEndZone]

I know Lousiana hit another record today when it comes to cases, but what about New Orleans? What site do y’all use to see the different +- cases for each parish? Since the cities seemed to get it first, hopefully New Orleans has already reached it’s peak, or within a day or two.

On the LDH site, it said they didn't update the parish or region case counts yesterday, so all we got was the statewide data. Hospitalizations did drop slightly yesterday in the New Orleans region.

 

[bclemms]

She's trotted ahead on thin data before.

Having said that, I pretty much agree with bclemms -- probably right, but not yet time to spike the football.

Again, I think it's right. I've been saying this for weeks and with numbers that are almost exactly the same as that study.

Just wouldnt' tought it as fact fresh off the printer.