There isn't a huge death wave yet. ICU rates are climbing at an extremely fast pace in multiple countries so its likely just a matter of time. The U.S. may be spared a worse outcome due to JN.1 getting a slightly later start and it running into winter break.
There is one to two weeks of exponential growth remaining and delayed data so we won't know until it's to late for many.
It's only now reaching older adults after weeks of working its way up through the age group's. This week and next is when hospitalizations will likely start spiking if they are going to. In many other countries the huge spikes are well underway. Sadly, many thousands will die, and millions will end up with persistent infections causing Long-COVID symptoms for months, years and for life in many. Regardless of severity, every COVID infection is shortening lives at the cellular level because antibodies don't block infection. We are dependent on T-cells and we have a finite supply of naive T-cells. The older someone is the greater the risk but make no mistake, everyone is impacted.
my comment is due to Geert´s assumption that next variant would be more virulent. He is right, but not much more virulent, it looks more of a kind of omicron 2.0 event.
Maybe this is going to change any way soon and get uglier. Record levels of wastewater viral concentrations are bad omen. Virus spread must be stopped at some point.
It's beyond comprehension why your substack is not bursting at the seams from the visitors! Unless it's being throttled? Shared your post here: https://live2fightanotherday.substack.com/p/ema-and-fda-washing-hands-we-have
Your post took me here. The below substack is also being written as "Geert Vanden Bossche", is it a scam?
https://voiceforscienceandsolidarity.substack.com/archive
It seems like there is a time split happening on Nov.27, not that these two function in parallel? But a good question. If it's a scam, I fell for it.
Indeed
There are record wastewater viral concentrations and still there is no JN.1 huge death wave. Still relatively mild variant.
There isn't a huge death wave yet. ICU rates are climbing at an extremely fast pace in multiple countries so its likely just a matter of time. The U.S. may be spared a worse outcome due to JN.1 getting a slightly later start and it running into winter break.
There is one to two weeks of exponential growth remaining and delayed data so we won't know until it's to late for many.
It's only now reaching older adults after weeks of working its way up through the age group's. This week and next is when hospitalizations will likely start spiking if they are going to. In many other countries the huge spikes are well underway. Sadly, many thousands will die, and millions will end up with persistent infections causing Long-COVID symptoms for months, years and for life in many. Regardless of severity, every COVID infection is shortening lives at the cellular level because antibodies don't block infection. We are dependent on T-cells and we have a finite supply of naive T-cells. The older someone is the greater the risk but make no mistake, everyone is impacted.
my comment is due to Geert´s assumption that next variant would be more virulent. He is right, but not much more virulent, it looks more of a kind of omicron 2.0 event.
Maybe this is going to change any way soon and get uglier. Record levels of wastewater viral concentrations are bad omen. Virus spread must be stopped at some point.
Thanks for sharing this important discussion