From the CDC website on hospitalizations:

"The current 7-day daily average for December 8–December 14, 2021, was 7,814. This is a 4.4% increase from the prior 7-day average (7,482) from December 1 –December 7, 2021."

In a country of 334 million, current hospitalizations are substantially lower than 2020 and this past summer. Fact - there are more people in the hospital with cancer than covid right now.

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#new-hospital-admissions

Six Cleveland-area healthcare facilities take out newspaper ad that says “Help.” They are begging people to get vaccinated due to fears of being overwhelmed with patients. Sure, this is just like the flu.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.today.com/today/amp/rcna9351

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m vaccinated, boosted 8 weeks ago, and have covid right now.

What’s your point?

Simple, this isn't the pandemic of the unvaccinated anymore darling.

Fact: the vast majority of the hospitalized are unvaccinated—we may all get Covid at some point, but those who are unvaccinated are the most likely to die.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m vaccinated, boosted 8 weeks ago, and have covid right now.

What’s your point?

Simple, this isn't the pandemic of the unvaccinated anymore darling.

Dp- if you aren’t at the hospital, no one cares.
Guess who’s at the hospital?

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Anonymous wrote:

Why is every tweet so f*cling stupid? How about a little context. Tell us the rate of hospitalization for vaxxed and boosted people. Might that not be helpful to know? Morons, all of them.

DP. Well, in South Africa, they declared contact tracing , and quarantining of those contacts to be no longer necessary.

https://www.news24.com/news24/southafrica/news/covid-19-stop-tracing-and-quarantining-of-contacts-says-ministerial-advisory-committee-20211219

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Anonymous wrote:In NYC every single test center has lines around the block. WTF has the federal government doing this past year to augment testing capacity? What have they done to provide at home testing like what’s available in Europe and Asia? Freaking absurd inaction and incompetence. It’s as though all they considered doing was boosting vaccination rates and absolutely nothing else.

Its a delicate balance of availability and not having people waiting around doing nothing. The surge for testing right now is huge and it is happening during one of the biggest travel/family weeks of the year.
You want at-home testing then you need to have single payer/socialism or an authoritarian government.

Utter nonsense. The federal government could easily have ramped up production and distribution of at-home testing but chose to do nothing.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m vaccinated, boosted 8 weeks ago, and have covid right now.

What’s your point?

Simple, this isn't the pandemic of the unvaccinated anymore darling.

Anonymous wrote:In NYC every single test center has lines around the block. WTF has the federal government doing this past year to augment testing capacity? What have they done to provide at home testing like what’s available in Europe and Asia? Freaking absurd inaction and incompetence. It’s as though all they considered doing was boosting vaccination rates and absolutely nothing else.

Its a delicate balance of availability and not having people waiting around doing nothing. The surge for testing right now is huge and it is happening during one of the biggest travel/family weeks of the year.
You want at-home testing then you need to have single payer/socialism or an authoritarian government.

Anonymous wrote:

Why is every tweet so f*cling stupid? How about a little context. Tell us the rate of hospitalization for vaxxed and boosted people. Might that not be helpful to know? Morons, all of them.

Anonymous wrote:In NYC every single test center has lines around the block. WTF has the federal government doing this past year to augment testing capacity? What have they done to provide at home testing like what’s available in Europe and Asia? Freaking absurd inaction and incompetence. It’s as though all they considered doing was boosting vaccination rates and absolutely nothing else.

In NYC every single test center has lines around the block. WTF has the federal government doing this past year to augment testing capacity? What have they done to provide at home testing like what’s available in Europe and Asia? Freaking absurd inaction and incompetence. It’s as though all they considered doing was boosting vaccination rates and absolutely nothing else.

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Anonymous wrote:
Not interested in the partisan name-calling and finger-pointing. But to answer the question asked- the focus should be on effective treatments.

At this point we know what there is to know about prevention. We need to focus on the other half of the problem. If there were fast and effective treatments, that would also reduce the seriousness of the COVID threat.

Thanks pharma person. First you sell the gov. vaccines that are not true vaccines, then rapid test that aren’t reliable, and now “treatments” for the latest variant. Are you a member of the Sackler family?

Huh? So do I understand that you are saying that it is a BAD idea, or maybe even somehow evil, to focus on developing effective treatments for COVID?

I don't care if those treatments are drugs or somebody discovering that eating three strawberries in a bathtub while playing Kenny G cures COVID. Seems to me that if we can prevent serious symptoms, hospitalization, and death after infection that would be a good idea.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m vaccinated, boosted 8 weeks ago, and have covid right now.

Glad to hear you're not posting from a hospital or on a vent.

Meanwhile, the latest from the CDC:

Cases (per 100K)
Boosted: 48
2 dose vaccinated: 134
Unvaccinated: 451 (nearly 10x higher than boosted)

Deaths (per 100K)
Boosted: 0.1
2 dose vaccinated: 0.5
Unvaccinated: 6.1 (nearly 61x higher than boosted)

If you go here and find highly vaccinated Arlington county, it says the 7 day average of cases is 507.51 per 100k,.fwiw.

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#county-view?list_select_state=Virginia&list_select_county=51013

Anonymous wrote:I’m vaccinated, boosted 8 weeks ago, and have covid right now.

What’s your point?