Washington Post: Covid deaths highest in a year as omicron targets the unvaccinated and elderly
Though considered milder than other coronavirus variants, omicron has infected so many people that it has driven the number of daily deaths beyond where it was last spring, before vaccines were widely available, according to Washington Post data.
Omicron has been particularly lethal to people over 75, the unvaccinated and the medically vulnerable, according to doctors and public health officials.
The soaring death toll also illustrates why experts pleaded with the public to beware of the highly contagious variant even though it is less virulent than others.
“That feels quite jarring to people who may have assumed omicron is generally on a per-case level less severe and given the fact we have vaccinated at least some portion of the country,” said Jennifer Nuzzo, an epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
“Even if on a per-case basis fewer people develop severe illness and die, when you apply a small percentage to a very large number, you get a substantial number.”
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WNU Editor: It was a bad day for US Covid deaths yesterday (see below):
COVID CASES USA
348,108 FEB 07 2022
87,281 FEB 07 2021
DEATHS
2,739 FEB 07 2022
1,301 FEB 07 2021
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1 comment:
Why people gain weight as they get older
You'll find a correlation between COVID fatality, BMI and/or age.
Or we can wreck the economy.
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