For Omicron: for all we know, if that were the version we faced first in 2020, it would cause just as severe and maybe even worse disease. Or not! Unclear. We don't know yet because we haven't yet seen reports of it impact on completely unvaccinated/uninfected populations.
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someone needs to address the pediatric data coming out of south africa. the messaging on all things covid has been so bad in part bc many people ignore bad outcomes (beyond mortality stats) for kids who still can't be vaccinated. if this one is worse for kids, it's a crisis.
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yeah i'm surprised there hasn't been more on this. It does seem that the numbers for under 20 are worse than Delta (even though that may just be about transmissiveness, not necessarily severity)--and kids under 5 remain 100% unvaxxed.
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Very useful data. However hard to attribute attenuation of clinical illness to immunity when delta is causing severe illness and omicron not. Also different manifestations in children. Something else is going on.
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Keep hearing that omicron is many times more immune evasive, yet causes less clinical illness? Does not make sense to me.
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but symptomatic, a huge wave can still be a strain. If a tiny percent of those are severe that can add up quickly if the wave is big enough. Remember it is in *addition* to other seasonal viruses.