In NH, 67% are reported fully vaccinated. Assuming that there are at least some partially vaccinated people, that means the unvaccinated are less than a third of the population. Yet they make up 2/3 of the hospitalizations. They are not only serving to spread and mutate the virus, they are monopolizing health care resources to the detriment of everyone else.
I hear a lot of "Omicron will save us from Delta ... some day", but they fail to mention that meanwhile NOTHING is going to save a lot of people from otherwise preventable deaths, due to hospitals filled with happy plague rats.
"Omicron isn't that bad", they said. Come on, kids it'll be fun!
A five-fold increase in pediatric admissions in New York City this month. Close to double the numbers admitted in Washington, DC. And nationwide, on average, pediatric hospitalizations are up 48% in just the past week.
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"It's almost like you can see the train coming down the track and you're just hoping it doesn't go off the rails," Dr. Claudia Hoyen, director of pediatric infection control at UH Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital in Cleveland told CNN.
"It's going to be a very interesting couple of weeks. We've just had all of these kids mixing together with everybody else during Christmas. We have one more holiday to get through with New Year's, and then we'll be sending everybody back to school," Hoyen said.
"Everybody is kind of waiting on the edge, wondering what we'll end up seeing."
Sounds like they need a little pep talk from Metaphor. I'm having a hard time getting on board.
I give Meta's Happy Talk at least double the chance of Derec's predictions did a year or so ago, but that was near zero in the first place.
