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Hope seen overall once the omicron wave increases global immunity
2022-01-26
[Dallas Morning News] World health officials are offering hope that the ebbing of the omicron wave could give way to a new, more manageable phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, even as they warn of difficult weeks ahead and the possibility of another, more dangerous variant arising.
Don't say we didn't warn you!
In the U.S., cases have crested and are dropping rapidly, following a pattern seen in Britain and South Africa, with researchers projecting a period of low spread in many countries by the end of March. Though U.S. deaths — now at 2,000 each day — are still rising, new hospital admissions have started to fall, and a drop in deaths is expected to follow.

The encouraging trends after two years of self inflicted coronavirus misery have brought a noticeably hopeful tone from health experts. Rosy predictions have crumbled before, but this time they are backed by what could be called omicron’s silver lining: The highly contagious variant will leave behind extremely high levels of immunity.
Whoa! A new development! Up until now, saying anything about 'natural immunity' could get you de-platformed.
On Sunday, Dr. Anthony Fauci talked on ABC "This Week" about a "best-case scenario" where COVID-19 would fall to manageable levels so the United States could get "back to a degree of normality."
Like when you weren't on the TV all the time? Normal, like, where nobody knew your name?
And on Monday, the World Health Organization issued a statement anticipating an end to the "emergency phase" of the pandemic this year and saying that the omicron variant "offers plausible hope for stabilization and normalization."
Who's on first?
Both Fauci and the WHO’s Europe regional director, Dr. Hans Kluge, cautioned that new variants are likely to emerge, but with vaccination, new untested, expensivedrug therapies and — during surges — useless, virtuous activities, like testing and masks, the world could reach a less disruptive level of disease in which the virus is, as Fauci put it, "essentially integrated into the general respiratory infections that we have learned to live with."
But can we learn to live without Tony?
I’m certainly willing to try.
Falling, too, are new U.S. hospital admissions of patients with confirmed COVID-19. They are averaging nearly 20,000 per day, down about 7% from the previous week, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Those numbers include patients who went to the hospital for other reasons and tested false positive. But even after accounting for these incidental infections, the trend is hopeful.
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Posted by:Bobby

#5  Jim Carry....that's appropriate
Posted by: swksvolFF   2022-01-26 10:18  

#4  ^#1 TW - I'm sure I had a snarky title, but I don't remember, either!
Posted by: Bobby   2022-01-26 08:58  

#3  Drs. Fauxi and Kloodge. Sounds like another Jim Carrey movie in the works.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret   2022-01-26 06:26  

#2  Global human herd immunity may happen. It may not happen. Either way, we're all gonna die -- eventually.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843   2022-01-26 06:11  

#1  Apologies, Bobby — somehow I lost your headline. Do you remember what it was?
Posted by: trailing wife   2022-01-26 00:24  

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