The Worst of the Omicron Wave Could Still Be Coming

[Swede]

A long descent from a peak in cases could exact a larger toll than even Omicron’s blistering ascent.

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2022/01/omicron-peak-covid-what-happens-next/621257/?utm_campaign=the-atlantic&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR06YQQ6J5KZ8GAoW0SkpYrK1U04_FeyyJoSCCWhWOyQaYP-PV2b7MCVkQM

[Fiendish Thingy]

1. I think March could be rough in some areas, with overwhelmed hospitals

I think we’ll see a jump in kids in hospital.

[Rebl2]

3. We already had

higher numbers of kids in the hospitals where I am in MO. Now the schools in my area are dropping mask mandates in several districts so I would guess the numbers will shoot back up.

[Rhiannon12866]

2. K&R! We cannot let our guard down now, thanks to the unvaccinated, new variants could be coming...

[wnylib]

4. Don't know about other areas, but around here,

the rise in omicron cases coincided with holidays, when people visited friends and relatives, went to parties, and shopped for holiday foods and presents.

Omicron arrived here in August and increased as expected for this variant. But after Halloween, there was a jump in cases. After Thanksgiving, new cases made a
huge jump and kept rising higher. After Christmas and New Year, our cases were off the chart at 24%.

Then gradually they started to decline and are still going down. But, as our county health website says, the numbers of new cases are higher than their figures show. Many people have positive results from home tests which are not reported so are not part of the official figures.

I expect to see a rise after spring break that will continue through Easter before going down again.

[Lucky Luciano]

5. Note this article is a month old.

[twodogsbarking]

6. This just in, Titanic sinks.

[Ford_Prefect]

7. While this was published a month ago it presumes to predict events we are in fact seeing now.