Sheer scale of new student covid cases (real data)

[Anonymous]

omicron cases are plunging in south africa and risk of hospitalization is proving far, far lower than with delta.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:omicron cases are plunging in south africa and risk of hospitalization is proving far, far lower than with delta.

Lot of speculation that they’re plunging because people have stopped getting tested due to cost.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:omicron cases are plunging in south africa and risk of hospitalization is proving far, far lower than with delta.

Lot of speculation that they’re plunging because people have stopped getting tested due to cost.

The way people just refuse to take any optimism…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:omicron cases are plunging in south africa and risk of hospitalization is proving far, far lower than with delta.

From today's Wall Street Journal:

"...South African researchers said they estimate the risk of hospitalization with Omicron is around 70% to 80% lower than with the earlier Delta strain, a promising sign that immunity from prior infection or vaccination offers substantial protection against severe illness.

The findings, published online in a paper that has yet to be peer reviewed, offer further tentative evidence that Omicron infections tend to be milder in populations with high levels of immunity.

Waasila Jassat, a public-health specialist at the National Institute of Communicable Diseases, said there had been no significant increases in admissions to critical-care wards recorded over the past four weeks when Omicron has driven case numbers in the country sharply higher.

“Mortality has been very low in this wave, with the case-fatality ratio lower than at any other point in the pandemic,” said Dr. Jassat."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:omicron cases are plunging in south africa and risk of hospitalization is proving far, far lower than with delta.

From today's Wall Street Journal:

"...South African researchers said they estimate the risk of hospitalization with Omicron is around 70% to 80% lower than with the earlier Delta strain, a promising sign that immunity from prior infection or vaccination offers substantial protection against severe illness.

The findings, published online in a paper that has yet to be peer reviewed, offer further tentative evidence that Omicron infections tend to be milder in populations with high levels of immunity.

Waasila Jassat, a public-health specialist at the National Institute of Communicable Diseases, said there had been no significant increases in admissions to critical-care wards recorded over the past four weeks when Omicron has driven case numbers in the country sharply higher.

“Mortality has been very low in this wave, with the case-fatality ratio lower than at any other point in the pandemic,” said Dr. Jassat."

Also, the scientists and doctors in South Africa have been saying this all along, but no one wants to listen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In the face of everybody in the world, it seems, doing everything they can to keep the schools open, it’s not enough for you. You still have to come on here and complain. So many of you are so damned selfish, thinking only of how the pandemic affects you and your family and no one else. It’s really sad.

+1000

There is a big risk to kids and adults why have underlying issues. Letting Covid spread unmitigated is a disaster even if it is fine for your family. Health care workers are burned out and hospitals are in crisis mode. Same for schools and teachers.

+ 1 million

It’s disheartening how little you care about kids like my daughter, with a rare disease the compromises her immune system. She has these big beautiful eyes that light up the sky. Letting a pandemic rip through schools that her brother could bring home could kill her. Does she deserve to die because you can’t be bothered? Think about what happens to a community when there are no guardrails.

Keep kids in school but do it safely.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:omicron cases are plunging in south africa and risk of hospitalization is proving far, far lower than with delta.

From today's Wall Street Journal:

"...South African researchers said they estimate the risk of hospitalization with Omicron is around 70% to 80% lower than with the earlier Delta strain, a promising sign that immunity from prior infection or vaccination offers substantial protection against severe illness.

The findings, published online in a paper that has yet to be peer reviewed, offer further tentative evidence that Omicron infections tend to be milder in populations with high levels of immunity.

Waasila Jassat, a public-health specialist at the National Institute of Communicable Diseases, said there had been no significant increases in admissions to critical-care wards recorded over the past four weeks when Omicron has driven case numbers in the country sharply higher.

“Mortality has been very low in this wave, with the case-fatality ratio lower than at any other point in the pandemic,” said Dr. Jassat."

Also, the scientists and doctors in South Africa have been saying this all along, but no one wants to listen.

UK data is somewhat mixed, and SA population is significantly younger.

So I wouldn’t place any bets, but I hope SA outcomes ends up being what happens here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:omicron cases are plunging in south africa and risk of hospitalization is proving far, far lower than with delta.

Lot of speculation that they’re plunging because people have stopped getting tested due to cost.

The way people just refuse to take any optimism…

Some people want schools to close because it makes their lives easier.

If you're vaccinated, all the evidence is you'll be fine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In the face of everybody in the world, it seems, doing everything they can to keep the schools open, it’s not enough for you. You still have to come on here and complain. So many of you are so damned selfish, thinking only of how the pandemic affects you and your family and no one else. It’s really sad.

+1000

There is a big risk to kids and adults why have underlying issues. Letting Covid spread unmitigated is a disaster even if it is fine for your family. Health care workers are burned out and hospitals are in crisis mode. Same for schools and teachers.

+ 1 million

It’s disheartening how little you care about kids like my daughter, with a rare disease the compromises her immune system. She has these big beautiful eyes that light up the sky. Letting a pandemic rip through schools that her brother could bring home could kill her. Does she deserve to die because you can’t be bothered? Think about what happens to a community when there are no guardrails.


Keep kids in school but do it safely.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:omicron cases are plunging in south africa and risk of hospitalization is proving far, far lower than with delta.

Today's Washington Post:

NAIROBI — South Africa’s huge wave of omicron cases appears to be subsiding just as quickly as it grew in the weeks after the country first announced to the world that a new coronavirus variant had been identified.

South Africa’s top infectious-disease scientist, who has been leading the country’s pandemic response, said Wednesday that the country had rapidly passed the peak of new omicron cases and, judging by preliminary evidence, he expected “every other country, or almost every other, to follow the same trajectory.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/12/22/south-africa-omicron-coronavirus-cases/

[Anonymous]

Didn’t UK not have masks this year? Did it spread in schools faster than US?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In the face of everybody in the world, it seems, doing everything they can to keep the schools open, it’s not enough for you. You still have to come on here and complain. So many of you are so damned selfish, thinking only of how the pandemic affects you and your family and no one else. It’s really sad.

+1000

There is a big risk to kids and adults why have underlying issues. Letting Covid spread unmitigated is a disaster even if it is fine for your family. Health care workers are burned out and hospitals are in crisis mode. Same for schools and teachers.

+ 1 million

It’s disheartening how little you care about kids like my daughter, with a rare disease the compromises her immune system. She has these big beautiful eyes that light up the sky. Letting a pandemic rip through schools that her brother could bring home could kill her. Does she deserve to die because you can’t be bothered? Think about what happens to a community when there are no guardrails.

Keep kids in school but do it safely.

you daughter qualifies for virtual schooling due to a legit medical condition. YOU should be more responsible and pull her from school. Otherwise, schools need to continue to operate in person.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In the face of everybody in the world, it seems, doing everything they can to keep the schools open, it’s not enough for you. You still have to come on here and complain. So many of you are so damned selfish, thinking only of how the pandemic affects you and your family and no one else. It’s really sad.

+1000

There is a big risk to kids and adults why have underlying issues. Letting Covid spread unmitigated is a disaster even if it is fine for your family. Health care workers are burned out and hospitals are in crisis mode. Same for schools and teachers.

+ 1 million

It’s disheartening how little you care about kids like my daughter, with a rare disease the compromises her immune system. She has these big beautiful eyes that light up the sky. Letting a pandemic rip through schools that her brother could bring home could kill her. Does she deserve to die because you can’t be bothered? Think about what happens to a community when there are no guardrails.

Keep kids in school but do it safely.

I have a friend with three kids one of whom is extremely vulnerable to Covid. She is homeschooling all three this year. She isn’t going around demanding that everyone keep their kids home too or that schools meet some impossible standard of safety to accommodate her individual situation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My middle school kid and all friends are positive. They do not have symptoms.
I think this just needs to blow through everyone.

My husband and I got it too and we have the symptoms of a bad cold. Woke up feeling much better today (day #3).

My ES kid (fully vaxxed) was positive and coughed for a day. I (boosted) got it from him and I'm on day 9 of symptoms and day 5 of feeling like crap. Bad cold-level crap and nothing worse, but I am so over this.

[Anonymous]

I just reported on the Wilson closed today thread that the Wilson Beacon reported that 50 students tested positive last week, but that notifications are seriously lagging: https://thewilsonbeacon.com/19307/news/community-receives-delayed-notification-of-covid-cases-amidst-omicron-wave/