bad knees wrote:MrSparkle wrote:bad knees wrote:
The current infections are likely Delta. Omicron will take over in a month or two and may well generate another round of infections.
That's what they say; hope not. These positive tests are happening out of nowhere way too fast after a large round of boosters and double vaccinations, and the current US infections seem to be reporting more mild reactions than when delta was first reported, which kind of matches some of the reports on omicron? I know an older guy who has long covid now and had a rough time back in the spring of this year; got hit with the delta variant. It was around earlier than the "delta wave" was reported to first hit America. Unless this is just a mutation of delta.
I'm just speculating, but why exactly would a strain detected first in South Africa travel to Europe so much faster than America? We have tons of people traveling in every direction, and airports and travelers are a web, not a 2-way port. I'd imagine all these mutations and variants are crossing paths. The only patients' really studied are the ones with severe cases or deaths; the standard tests don't test for the variants as far as I know, so I'm certain there just isn't enough data to prove one way or another which dominant variant is passing around at this exact moment.
CDC says Omicron is only 3% of the cases in the US at this point. And rising.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/14/omicron-now-makes-up-almost-3percent-of-us-covid-cases-according-to-the-cdc.html
I get it. I was just saying my speculative 2c. A massive majority of people tested are not taking tests that decipher the variant. It would make sense that testing and data are not acting as quick as the actual virus. We had COVID passing in the states back in Dec. or Jan. 2019, but it wasn't until Feb. and Mar. where it was actually registering.
Just saying, hope we don't see 2 back-to-back waves.
