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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Man lots of deluded people here. Two months ago hospitals around me were collapsing under the weight of "mild" omicron cases.

Lots of people who died were 30 thru 60. LOTS![/quote]

Indeed, insane how quickly memory fades. We pretty much didn't have hospitals available in my area. Military helping out in hospitals. People dying for non-covid related reasons because they couldn't get care.
BA2 is causing a major increase in hospitalization in the elderly and under 5s again in the UK. Record hospitalizations for the elderly since vaccines became available - even though they are much more vaxxed and boosted than we are. If BA2 takes off here, and it looks like it will, we are looking at a more deadly wave than BA1 due to the longer interval since the booster and vaccinations.[/quote]

Where the heck did this happen??[/quote]

My husband works at a DMV hospital, and his group covers a bunch of them. They were not overwhelmed. There was some very, very limited delays of some non emergency cases, out of an abundance of caution and for maybe 2 weeks. There were some some additional covid patients in ICUs, but it was not overwhelming. This was allegedly happening in some places, but not throughout the DMV hospitals-- there is a link between high vaccination rates in adults and lower hospital admissions (bc the vaccines largely prevent severe disease in most cases'). The demographics in Michigan and their hospitals, for example, are different.[/quote]

It happened in my highly vaccinated state. "allegedly happening in some places". Shut up![/quote]

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