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In reply to the discussion: Omicron wave will crash on US with 60% of people infected by March and 140 MILLION new infections - [View all]Celerity
(54,933 posts)COVID is 1.6%, especially with Omicron, AND when the actual amount of cases (which massive studies for over a year plus have claimed are severely undercounted) are factored in. To claim that we have an accurate TRUE case count on a historical basis is anti-science nonsense.
And your numbers push a RW meme by completely ignoring vaccine effectiveness in preventing deaths, as the clear majority of deaths happened before there was as widespread full (at the time, so double jabbed) vaccination rates as there are now (61.7% atm, and over 70% partially vaxxed. and that is for the entire population, and a lot of the unvaxxed are sub 30 years of age, sub 20 years of age, who have a staggeringly LOWER death rate than the older cohorts, especially 65yo and up, who are vaxxed at much higher rates)
There is no chance that 1.4 million new deaths will come in the US from Omicron. That is anti-science, alarmist fear-mongering, and fundamentally relies on YOU (not me) using RW framings that try and dismiss the death prevention effects of vaccines.
https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations?country=USA
