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> I don’t think that’s really happening anywhere with omicron.

It's almost like a bunch of people got vaccinated, but the US is still losing thousands a day. More than a 9/11's worth every day for the past week.

> It may be that enough of the world is vaccinated at this point (or had covid) that there’s no way to properly compare.

The 10-30% unvaccinated in most developed nations provides plenty of statistically significant population, and we've literally done the comparing. (See charts: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/11/briefing/omicron-deaths-v...)

> But it definitely doesn’t feel anywhere near as bad as previous waves, even in the unvaccinated population.

We know it's less lethal, yes, but extrapolating that to "the vaccine isn't useful" is false.




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