CV and mad panic behaviour

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The CDC said that while many of the first reported Omicron cases appear to be mild, a lag exists between infection and more severe outcomes. Symptoms would also be expected to be milder in vaccinated persons and those with previous SARS-CoV-2 infection.

I think it's too early to tell, but the growing restrictions and actions in Europe suggest it's more severe or a bigger issue than we are being lead to believe, I'm still concerned about the long term impact of Omicron on young children as children and infants seem to be more affected by Omicron than the other variants. Of course, most children and infants are not vaccinated.

Great to read that the vaccines still have good efficacy at reducing the severity of disease from the Omicron variant.

As we get more variants the likelihood we'll get breakthrough infections grows, and given that in many or the reporting locations the bulk of population are vaccinated it's natural to have more vaccinated people detected with infections than unvaccinated. However, as long as the vaccines provide some efficacy the fundamentals haven't changed, and in European Omicron affected regions more than 70% of ICU intubation/ventilation cases remain as unvaccinated people. That doesn't mean the chance of individual transmission is increased, it just means the number of vaccinated far outweigh the number of unvaccinated. Fundamentally the big constant remains, if you're unvaccinated and get Sars-CoV-2 you are about 10x more likely to be hospitalised and require intubation or ventilation, you're 10x more likely to become a burden on the health system, you're cost of care is likely to be far more expensive to society.