A brief note on epidemiology

Mark Sumner at DK has aroundup of news from overwhelmed health care systems around the country. This seems to be getting very little attention from national media, for some reason -- this is a list of local stories, which don ' t seem to have gotten the attention of editors at CNN or the New York Times.This is definitely bad news in the present, but it ' s better news in the long run. The Covid-19 variant that ' s causing this is extremely contagious -- as contagious a measles, apparently. That means you can become infected just by briefly being in the vicinity of an infectious person. One thing that ' s really unpleasant about this virus is that people without symptoms can be infectious. It also appears that people who were previously infected with another variant do not have much immunity to this one. The surge in cases that ' s overwhelming hospitals consists overwhelmingly of unvaccinated people, however, because the vaccines -- if you ' re boosted -- are highly effective at keeping you out of the hospital. So yes, the blame for this falls entirely on the irresponsible or deluded people who refuse to get vaccinated, and the psychopathic politicians and professio=nal TV liars who tell them not to. And they aren ' t just killing themselves -- overloaded hospitals can ' t properly deal with other diseases and injuries. So this is just pure evil.However, because CV-19 omicron is so contagious, it ' s going to rip through the population quickly. Other countries have seen ...
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