Good news about Omicron

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In reply to KidDoc • 7:54p, 12/28/21
KidDoc said:
In Aggieland the health department is saying 90% omicron.


I guess the south had our delta this summer, cdc revising numbers way lower just seemed odd, but guess it was just an estimate.

Thank you!
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In reply to DadHammer • 8:35p, 12/28/21
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DadHammer said:
KidDoc said:
In Aggieland the health department is saying 90% omicron.
Omicron took over pretty quickly, yes? Impressive spread capability.


Yes it is very impressive. Multiple national and international health experts are saying 50% positivity rates on testing which is bonkers. When the NFL and NBA breakthroughs started a few weeks ago I figured that was Omicron. The case numbers are going to be insane with this wave but it seems relatively mild thank God.
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10:52a, 12/30/21
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More good news!

What Are T Cells? Studies Show They Protect Against Omicron - Bloomberg
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In reply to KidDoc • 12:42p, 12/30/21
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T Cells have a much longer "memory", correct? So a vaxxed (6+ mo ago) but not boosted should still have a good chance my mild disease.

Obviously unvaxxed higher risk and boosted lowest but it's not like unboosted = unvaxxed like the CDC is suggesting.

I'm pretty sure I read an article in 2020 to that said people who got the original SARS had T cells defending against COV-2 18 years later which is insane.

Found it

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Next, we showed that patients who recovered from SARS possess long-lasting memory T cells that are reactive to the N protein of SARS-CoV 17 years after the outbreak of SARS in 2003; these T cells displayed robust cross-reactivity to the N protein of SARS-CoV-2.

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Thus, SARS-CoV-2 N-specific T cells are part of the T cell repertoire of individuals with a history of SARS-CoV infection and these T cells are able to robustly expand after encountering N peptides of SARS-CoV-2. These findings demonstrate that virus-specific T cells induced by infection with betacoronaviruses are long-lasting, supporting the notion that patients with COVID-19 will develop long-term T cell immunity. Our findings also raise the possibility that long-lasting T cells generated after infection with related viruses may be able to protect against, or modify the pathology caused by, infection with SARS-CoV-2.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2550-z?flip=true
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8:24a, 1/8/22
I saw this on another thread, but I think it qualifies as good news.

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In reply to StandUpforAmerica • 2:23p, 1/8/22
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StandUpforAmerica said:
I saw this on another thread, but I think it qualifies as good news.

In my (obviously limited) experience with COVID, flu is much worse for children.
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In reply to StandUpforAmerica • 9:41a, 1/9/22
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Great news. Maybe people can stop all the nonsense and get back to normal living, work, and travel.
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9:47a, 1/12/22
'As omicron cases rise, COVID-19 deaths appear to decline'
https://www.wptv.com/coronavirus/as-omicron-cases-rise-covid-deaths-appear-to-decline

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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. It is an unusual turn for many doctors on the front lines of COVID.
"In Florida, we're seeing less deaths which is great," said Dr. Larry Bush of Wellington.

"The hospitalizations are definitely increasing just because of sheer numbers of positivity cases we're seeing," Dr. Bush said.

Unlike the Delta variant over the summer, cases in the hospital are appearing to be less severe, easing pressure on ICUs.
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"Fortunately we're not seeing a high percentage people especially among vaccinated and boostered who are sick and requiring ICU", said Dr. Jason Wilson at Tampa General.
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Doctors say there appear to be several reasons for the less severe cases and deaths, including increased vaccination rates and even the antibody effects from the Delta surge.

"Even though it's not the exact same variant or strain as omicron, there is some cross coverage in the antibodies because they have common parts," said Dr. Bush.
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In reply to KidDoc • 9:50a, 1/12/22
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KidDoc said:
StandUpforAmerica said:
I saw this on another thread, but I think it qualifies as good news.

In my (obviously limited) experience with COVID, flu is much worse for children.
Well, all of the statistics since the beginning of this hold that to be true.
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9:42a, 1/25/22
7 day average for Texas for new cases down to 54,674. A week ago it was 72,196.
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9:11p, 1/27/22
Down to 49,787
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8:24a, 1/28/22
Down to 46,750
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8:26a, 1/28/22
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1st time since omicron there was a single-day decrease in hospitalizations and the 7 day avg should be hitting that mark pretty quickly. That first chart should be filled out in green rather soon.







src https://twitter.com/jonahfleish/
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In reply to AgsMyDude • 10:48a, 1/28/22
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These are terrific charts!!

So, the first graph shows the rate of change in hospitalizations, right? Meaning, if it's red then we are increasing the number of hospitalizations and if its green, we are decreasing the number of hospitalizations.

Just want to make sure I'm reading the chart right.
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In reply to imjustsayin • 3:42p, 1/28/22
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Correct! And yeah his charts are great.


I was doing a similar setup for TX regions before I found his (mine aren't as fancy).

For example, San Antonio seems to follow the same trend. The holiday reporting seems to skew some day to day but overall should be seeing negatives really soon.



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8:45a, 1/31/22
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Good news around here. DFW cases are way down over the weekend. Have a friend working at a major hospital and ER census was down to 30 for a lot of the weekend. For reference, capacity is about 80 beds and their average total census has been around 200 since last summer.
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In reply to ramblin_ag02 • 10:03a, 1/31/22
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Great news!
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In reply to ramblin_ag02 • 11:14a, 1/31/22
Great news, thank you for sharing doc!
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11:35a, 1/31/22
Texas 7 day average down to 36,940
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In reply to StandUpforAmerica • 11:44a, 1/31/22
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Wild stuff when you are "down" to 36K per day....


happy for the trends though...especially the hospitals...
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In reply to planoaggie123 • 12:01p, 1/31/22
planoaggie123 said:
Wild stuff when you are "down" to 36K per day....


happy for the trends though...especially the hospitals...
When it's ~37% less than the week before, that's pretty good news.
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In reply to StandUpforAmerica • 12:04p, 1/31/22
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completely agree...just shows how wild the numbers got there....as far as cases....
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In reply to planoaggie123 • 8:22a, 2/1/22
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There was a bad cold going around at thanksgiving. Every single person I know got it and was sick. If we measured all these colds we would never calm down. The numbers were as high or higher than omicron I bet.
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8:25a, 2/1/22
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In reply to StandUpforAmerica • 8:44a, 2/2/22
StandUpforAmerica said:
Texas 7 day average down to 36,940
33,807
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9:31p, 2/3/22
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In reply to StandUpforAmerica • 1:52p, 2/7/22
StandUpforAmerica said:
StandUpforAmerica said:
Texas 7 day average down to 36,940
33,807
25,210
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12:14a, 2/8/22

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In reply to petebaker • 2:26a, 2/8/22
The science didn't change the polling did.
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In reply to petebaker • 8:11a, 2/8/22
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"The science has changed" tally is getting to be a pretty long list. And people wonder why many citizens question what they are being told
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9:23a, 2/8/22
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She must be planning on running for office of some sort...
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6:09p, 2/8/22
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Y'all may have covered this already but J&J quietly stopped making their COVID vaccine late last year so that's you won't be finding that anywhere. Assume partially due to this thing going away.

Source: MSN
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8:38a, 2/9/22
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In reply to StandUpforAmerica • 9:04a, 2/9/22
StandUpforAmerica said:
StandUpforAmerica said:
StandUpforAmerica said:
Texas 7 day average down to 36,940
33,807
25,210
20,809
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