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The IHME has just published what they expect for the coming 3 months. They expect much lower severity of each individual infection, but an extremely high number of infections.

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Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME)

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Dec 22, 2021

BREAKING: According to our updated #COVID19 model, we project 3 billion infections over the next three months globally, #Omicron rapidly spreading around the world since Oct. 8 Model

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7:30 AM · Dec 23, 2021

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On the bright side, it should push out the more severe delta strain and give humanity a huge chunk of herd immunity with much less casualties.

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Dec 23, 2021

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@MaxCRoser

how much in% that will be in severe cases? if it's just 10% from 3 billion people then it will result in 300 million hospitalization, that is absurdly high... for the context just from today sata total worldwide reported covid cases hasn't even crossed that number yet...

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ENDEMIE ❤️‍🔥

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This is the expected and normal path of a virus to take. The more people infected with the milder strain the quicker it becomes yet another winter sniffle.

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How can they claim both at the same time?

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#Covid19 will end like the common cold. ‘If it changes its spike protein so much that it can’t interact with that receptor, then it’s not going to be able to get inside the cell. So, there aren’t many places for the virus to go to’ #DameSarahGilbert,

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40 percent of Americans are projected to get Omicron by mid February. Just wild.

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