How? Please don't post a link. Just explain it. You stated it.
I'll start with the CDC report last month i.e. December 2021:
no deaths were reported.
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7050e1.htm
NO DEATHS!
I prefer CDC over Don Lemons, although it's a close call!
Originally Posted by LexusLover
You're smart. You've got plenty of brains. So it's hard to figure out why you're so willfully ignorant.
The CDC identified 43 Omicron cases reported from December 1 to December 8 with "initial follow up." And not one person died out of those 43 people, probably as of the date of the initial follow up. Whoop dee doo! The Delta variant still accounted for most COVID cases during December 1 to December 8, and the CDC and others hadn't ramped up testing to identify the Omicron variant.
The CDC estimated 22.5% of cases first reported during the week ended December 18 were Omicron. Most of the rest were Delta.
For the week ended January 1, 2022, they estimated Omicron accounted for 95.4% of cases. The percentage is probably higher now.
The average time from onset of symptoms until death from COVID is around 14 to 18 days. So people dying from COVID around now, January 22, may have initially come down with the disease back when Omicron was around 95.4% of cases. Or maybe on average the % was higher than 95.4.
One other item, this is the best paper I'm aware of from the USA that estimates fatality rate of Omicron versus Delta,
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1....11.22269045v1
And there's good news. The mortality from Omicron among those studied was only 0.09 as high as Delta! That, is, you'd have an 11X greater chance of getting killed by Delta compared to Omicron.
If you do the math, assuming 95.4% of cases are Omicron and using the .09 mortality ratio, then you'd come up with 1.87 Omicron deaths for every Delta death right now:
(0.954 x .09)/(.046 x 1.0) = 1.87
At present there are about 2150 COVID deaths per day. So based on the ratio, there would be about
1400 Omicron deaths per day and 750 deaths from Delta per day in the USA.
Fourteen hundred per day is a lot more than "0" deaths. In fact, Omicron right now is probably the third leading cause of death, not far behind heart disease and cancer.