References
References
Share of SARS-CoV-2 sequences that are the omicron variant:
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/covid-cases-omicron
Omicron infects and replicates in airways 70 times better than Delta and other variants:
https://www.med.hku.hk/en/news/press/20211215-omicron-sars-cov-2-infection
Daily cases of SARS-CoV-2 infection:
https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explorer
Around 800,000 people a day are getting infected with COVID just in the US
https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explorer
Some experts think that maybe only like 1 in 4 or 1 in 5 people that test positive actually report it
https://twitter.com/trvrb/status/1483996722191683584
>40% of Americans infected by mid-February
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bB1kMgMgDRk
>40% of Europeans too!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALZ1PiUrFCk
Changes and mutations to Omicron spike protein:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-03552-w
Animal studies on omicron infection show less lung disease
https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-1211792/v1
Omicron outcomes are less severe than previous variants:
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.01.11.22269045v1
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.21.21268116v1.full.pdf
https://www.gavi.org/vaccineswork/omicron-really-less-severe-previous-coronavirus-variants
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/01/220124203747.htm
Evidence is stacking up that adults with Omicron are much less likely to go to the ER, to be hospitalized, to need oxygen, or to die from omicron infection…
(Omicron infections are 91 percent less fatal than the delta variant, with 51 percent less risk of hospitalization)
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.01.11.22269045v1
Unvaccinated people are overwhelmingly more likely to go to the hospital if they get COVID, omicron included…
https://www.healthline.com/health-news/by-the-numbers-covid-19-vaccines-and-omicron
we’re already seeing data that says people who are fully boosted are up to 88% less likely to be hospitalized with omicron…
“Hybrid immunity” AKA injection + infection is likely better than infection alone
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abj2258
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7032e1.htm
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3971108
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.10.18.21265113v1.full.pdf
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2101667
Omicron could shift COVID from pandemic to endemic
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2022/01/optimism-on-omicron-shift-from-pandemic-to-endemic/