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randye
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DEC 18, 05:16 PM
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Rickady88GT
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DEC 18, 06:10 PM
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This death is possibly another person that died with covid rather than of covid. But either way I meant to say deaths in America, thus the freedoms comment. My bad.
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Patrick
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DEC 18, 06:36 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by Rickady88GT:
This death is possibly another person that died with covid rather than of covid.
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Of course. 
| quote | Originally posted by Rickady88GT:
But either way I meant to say deaths in America...
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Why not limit the area to your state, your city, your neighborhood, maybe your kitchen?
News flash... what goes on in the rest of the world eventually affects the US. Viruses know no borders.
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rinselberg
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DEC 18, 08:16 PM
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I think it's still early going, as far as Omicron. I don't think it is any more dangerous than Delta in terms of lethality, severity or possible long term damage from it (to a person's health) but I am not putting much stock in the idea that it is less dangerous. I don't think there's enough data.
I did see a report earlier today that describes Omicron as more infectious or more transmissible than Delta by a factor of 70 times. Not 70 percent more infectious, but 70 times more infectious.
 [This message has been edited by rinselberg (edited 12-18-2021).]
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Rickady88GT
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DEC 18, 08:40 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by Patrick:
Why not limit the area to your state, your city, your neighborhood, maybe your kitchen?
News flash... what goes on in the rest of the world eventually affects the US. Viruses know no borders. |
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Because that isn't what I wanted to do.
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Rickady88GT
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DEC 18, 08:49 PM
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Omicron was discovered November 11th. To date mabe one person World wide has died. In America none has. After being in over half the States in America and no deaths from it, people still FREAKING out over nothing.
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Patrick
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DEC 18, 09:57 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by Rickady88GT:
...people still FREAKING out over nothing.
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Got my booster shot on Thursday. There were probably a hundred people in the hall at any given time (as everyone is asked to sit for 15 minutes after their shot). I didn't see a single person "FREAKING out". Maybe we're just calmer folk in Canada.
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Rickady88GT
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DEC 18, 10:15 PM
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Patrick
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DEC 18, 10:39 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by Rickady88GT:
Seems a little freaked out to me.
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Seriously?  You must have a very low threshold.
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rinselberg
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DEC 18, 10:49 PM
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"Preliminary laboratory data hint at what makes Omicron the most superspreading variant yet"
Megan Molteni for STAT; December 17, 2021.
https://www.statnews.com/20...reading-variant-yet/
Read-o-Meter pegs this as a 9-minute read, for anyone to read it attentively from top to bottom.
If this were a restaurant instead of a news report, it would rank the highest number of "stars" from Michelin. Which I thought was 5, but maybe it's only 3, although it seems it could be 5 for just a very few of the most exceptional restaurants in the world. In other words, this is hands down the most impressive reporting on Omicron that I've encountered, to date.
These paragraphs are "key" :
| quote | But what exactly gives Omicron its competitive advantage has so far been unclear. Preliminary data, announced via press release Wednesday, which provide a first look at how Omicron may behave inside the human body, offers a clue to what might be behind its superspreading powers: more virus in people’s airways, which could mean more virus in the air.
The new research comes from a Hong Kong University team led by public health professor Michael Chan Chi-wai and pathologist John Nicholls. Previously, the researchers pioneered a method for growing human tissues extracted from the lung and respiratory tract, which they used to study how SARS-CoV-2 invaded cells and replicated compared to other dangerous coronaviruses. Using this same system, they analyzed how live, replicating particles of Omicron infected the tissues. They found that over the first 24 hours, Omicron multiplied about 70 times faster inside [upper] respiratory-tract tissue than the Delta variant. When they ran the same experiments with the lung tissue, they found Omicron was actually worse at infecting those cells than either Delta or the original strain of the virus that originated in Wuhan.
That seemingly helps explain the variant’s infectiousness, and also why it may not be causing as severe sickness as previous variants of the coronavirus — as early data suggest. |
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So that's Omicron in a nutshell.
"If you can find a better report, read it."[This message has been edited by rinselberg (edited 12-18-2021).]
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