Good follow for balanced and genuinely informed, well qualified Covid insights

[NoleSince1961]

This Johns Hopkins surgeon and epidemiology professor (also with a graduate degree in biostatistics) is a good follow if you're interested in reading the insights of someone who isn't shy about critiquing CDC guidance when he has issues with it -- ie. if it's too muddled, confusing, etc. -- but also doesn't suffer the fools who think their quick toilet break Googling and consumption of FB memes qualifies them to refute actual trained, experienced professionals regarding Covid-19, vaccines, etc.

If you're someone who is more of an all or nothing, binary either/or kind of thinker, and your take is that Fauci is a mockable idiot or to the other extreme that he's an infallible God, or if you believe that "everybody's opinion is equally valid" when it comes to public health matters, then you're not going to like Dr. Segev.
But he's a very bright dude we should listen to, IMHO.

 

[FisherWilcoxTaggart Survivor]

More hand-wringing over what is now essentially the common cold for 99.9% of healthy and able-bodied folks?

I assume the people still super-fixated on this thing may have underlying physical or other problems that fuel their focus. God bless them.

 

[NoleSince1961]

More hand-wringing over what is now essentially the common cold for 99.9% of healthy and able-bodied folks?

I assume the people still super-fixated on this thing may have underlying physical or other problems that fuel their focus. God bless them.

I assume the people who have family and friends around the world and who like to stay informed and respect the significance of Covid-19, including our communal roles in minimizing its impacts, have a perspective that extends far beyond their own self, and even beyond their own family and mindblowingly even maybe beyond their own demographic and tiny speck on the globe. God bless us all.
Happy New Year.

 

[GeddyLee09]

More hand-wringing over what is now essentially the common cold for 99.9% of healthy and able-bodied folks?

I assume the people still super-fixated on this thing may have underlying physical or other problems that fuel their focus. God bless them.

The super fixated are dwindling fast. The main stream media is even downplaying the whole thing now.

 

[NoleSince1961]

The super fixated are dwindling fast. The main stream media is even downplaying the whole thing now.

Seems like your interpretation of what the “whole thing” is in reference to Covid-19 from its first appearance until now, along with unknown future variants if any, might be unusually weighted towards Omicron, and overly dismissive of Omicron impacts around the US and globe as well. But you’ve already made your much more Covid-dismissive stance pretty clear. You do you.

 

[GeddyLee09]

Seems like your interpretation of what the “whole thing” is in reference to Covid-19 from its first appearance until now, along with unknown future variants if any, might be unusually weighted towards Omicron, and overly dismissive of Omicron impacts around the US and globe as well. But you’ve already made your much more Covid-dismissive stance pretty clear. You do you.

Yes by the whole thing I mean Covid in general. The point is that even the staunchest covid supporters in the media are changing their tune. Its funny to me (not in a humorous way) that these outlets like CNN are now in the middle of the biggest wave since the beginning of the pandemic stating that we cant run our lives around the flu. That's a big switch from just a few months ago. Or is that taking a dismissive view in your opinion?

 

[NoleSince1961]

Yes by the whole thing I mean Covid in general. The point is that even the staunchest covid supporters in the media are changing their tune. Its funny to me (not in a humorous way) that these outlets like CNN are now in the middle of the biggest wave since the beginning of the pandemic stating that we cant run our lives around the flu. That's a big switch from just a few months ago. Or is that taking a dismissive view in your opinion?

It’s what I would expect of any legit news network as a pandemic (or any other significant national event) changes… the message and tone changes with what we know or think we know at that time based on the most credible info available
Covid-19 today is NOT as scary or destructive as it was pre-Omicron (not to say Covid-19 can all just be treated as if it’s the common cold… at least not yet), so why shouldn’t every US news organization’s coverage and commentary change in concert with what’s happening around the US primarily and around the globe to some degree as well.

 

[GeddyLee09]

It’s what I would expect of any legit news network as a pandemic (or any other significant national event) changes… the message and tone changes with what we know or think we know at that time based on the most credible info available
Covid-19 today is NOT as scary or destructive as it was pre-Omicron (not to say Covid-19 can all just be treated as if it’s the common cold… at least not yet), so why shouldn’t every US news organization’s coverage and commentary change in concert with what’s happening around the US primarily and around the globe to some degree as well.

Thankfully most of them have finally changed.

 

[GbrNole]

the CDC updated its VOC reporting an hour or so ago. Omicron is now 95.4% of all cases. delta at 4.6% and all other variants under 0.1% combined.

hopefully if omicron continues to be relatively mild this is a good sign.

 

[NoleSince1961]

the CDC updated its VOC reporting an hour or so ago. Omicron is now 95.4% of all cases. delta at 4.6% and all other variants under 0.1% combined.

hopefully if omicron continues to be relatively mild this is a good sign.

Yes, that is definitely good news (at least overall, with due respect to those in the US and elsewhere more seriously impacted by Omicron than the typical experience we've seen in the US to date.)
Here's hoping there's not any variant worse than Omicron on the horizon and that we are truly in the end stage of this super costly Covid-19 experience.

COVID Data Tracker

CDC’s home for COVID-19 data. Visualizations, graphs, and data in one easy-to-use website.

covid.cdc.gov

 

[Dhersh]

the CDC updated its VOC reporting an hour or so ago. Omicron is now 95.4% of all cases. delta at 4.6% and all other variants under 0.1% combined.

hopefully if omicron continues to be relatively mild this is a good sign.

Still seems like a number that is not totally reliable considering the difference in the number of positive tests and the limited number of tests they are able to sequence each day.

 

[GbrNole]

Still seems like a number that is not totally reliable considering the difference in the number of positive tests and the limited number of tests they are able to sequence each day.

agreed. anecdotally the people i know who have been copping positives with at home tests have all had symptoms more consistent with omicron.

no loss of taste or small. no real fever (although they did oddly have night sweats). scratchy throat, runny nose and general tiredness for a couple of days seem to be the most consistent symptoms for them.