The other states are reporting the same phenomena. Omicron is getting deadlier in a shorter period of time. There was a death reported a couple days ago of a health care worker that died the same day he was diagnosed.
Illinois health officials reported 123,812 new COVID-19 cases (click here) over the past week, along with 843 additional deaths and over 310,000 new vaccine doses administered, marking yet another drop in cases but a rise in deaths from the previous week.
Last week, the state reported 183,722 new cases and 746 deaths.
The drop in cases comes after state officials report the omicron peak has been reached, particularly surrounding hospitalizations.
In all, 2,897,174 cases of coronavirus have been reported in the state since the pandemic began, according to the latest data from the Illinois Department of Public Health. The additional deaths bring the state to 30,688 confirmed COVID fatalities....
The top graph is the number of cases. Previous to omicron the graph grew steadily day after day. Omicron came along and the number of cases (yes, this is globally) began to increase significantly. The reason for the increase is omicron. It transmits past the body's defenses.
The chart below is the number of deaths. It has been consistently increasing day after day at about the same rate as with delta. The percentages of cases to deaths is going to look different because the death rate will look watered down in relation to the cases, but, COVID-19 and it's variants are taking the lives of people regularly. The deaths have not abated and it proves this virus is not going away. It continually is exposed to human beings and it is still killing at the same rate day after day.
The variant omicron has a different strategy in that it can infect more people, but, it is just as deadly as delta. The reason there is a spike in the USA in deaths compared to delta is because the USA is heavily infested with the virus and now that omicron has arrived and the LOOSE MORALS surrounding this faster spreading virus continue and there is THE OLD WIVES TALE that this virus is a walk in the park, the deaths are escalating compared to delta. Delta was taken seriously, now that omicron spikes quickly and the return to work is half of delta there is looser and looser social behavior.
Not me. I am now doing Palates exercises at home rather than going to the gym. I wear an N-95 mask supplied to me by Mid-Michigan hospital. I wear it everytime I go anyway and that is kept to a minimum.
This ain't over and the increased death rate in the USA needs to be a wake up call to the ever present and deadly virus.
We now have B2-A (I think that is the name) and Americans are not paying attention.
