<story><title>Omicron variant was 73% of U.S. covid cases last week</title><url>https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#variant-proportions</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>walterbell</author><text>785 Omicron cases in Denmark, Dec 16 report for Nov 22 to  Dec 7, Table 2, &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.eurosurveillance.org&amp;#x2F;content&amp;#x2F;10.2807&amp;#x2F;1560-7917.ES.2021.26.50.2101146&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.eurosurveillance.org&amp;#x2F;content&amp;#x2F;10.2807&amp;#x2F;1560-7917.E...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  0% fatal, 0.13% ICU, 1.2% hospital
  4.3% Covid-recovered 
  76% double vax, 7% booster
  14% unvax, 2% single vax
  77% no travel history
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Edit: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cnn.com&amp;#x2F;2021&amp;#x2F;12&amp;#x2F;18&amp;#x2F;politics&amp;#x2F;white-house-omicron-warning-joe-biden&amp;#x2F;index.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cnn.com&amp;#x2F;2021&amp;#x2F;12&amp;#x2F;18&amp;#x2F;politics&amp;#x2F;white-house-omicron-...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt; Some of Biden&amp;#x27;s advisers are encouraging the administration to begin discussing publicly how to live alongside a virus that shows no signs of disappearing ...
Steering public attention away from the total number of infections and toward serious cases only -- as some Biden advisers have encouraged -- could prove a challenge after nearly two years of intense focus on the pandemic&amp;#x27;s every up and down.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Edit2: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=29633899&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=29633899&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt; The CDC’s Nowcast algorithm has some kind of bug, and the prevalence of Omicron nationwide wasn’t really 73% in the week ending December 18.  Take that to the bank ... You will see this walked back.  The CDC will explain what happened.  The Twitter experts will have to walk back their initial tweets.  The press will have to publish a new round of articles clarifying their prior wave of headlines.  It might happen tomorrow, later this week, or some time next week, but it will happen.  This result won’t stand.&lt;/i&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>6tZAfJuXT2LL</author><text>Here are more up to date numbers from Denmark in English and Danish:
&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ssi.dk&amp;#x2F;-&amp;#x2F;media&amp;#x2F;cdn&amp;#x2F;files&amp;#x2F;covid19&amp;#x2F;omikron&amp;#x2F;statusrapport&amp;#x2F;rapport-omikronvarianten-20122021-9j51.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ssi.dk&amp;#x2F;-&amp;#x2F;media&amp;#x2F;cdn&amp;#x2F;files&amp;#x2F;covid19&amp;#x2F;omikron&amp;#x2F;statusr...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;23038 Omicron cases in total.
On December 15 44.1% of confirmed cases were Omicron.&lt;p&gt;The last page has a comparison with Delta on hospitalizations.
It finds 1.4% of Delta infections led to hospitalizations compared to 0.5% for Omicron.
However, this could be due to the fact that most of the Omicron cases were reported in the last week, and haven&amp;#x27;t yet &amp;#x27;had the time&amp;#x27; to lead to hospitalizations.&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s also a lot more infected who has received two or three doses compared to Delta.</text></comment>
<story><title>Omicron variant was 73% of U.S. covid cases last week</title><url>https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#variant-proportions</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>walterbell</author><text>785 Omicron cases in Denmark, Dec 16 report for Nov 22 to  Dec 7, Table 2, &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.eurosurveillance.org&amp;#x2F;content&amp;#x2F;10.2807&amp;#x2F;1560-7917.ES.2021.26.50.2101146&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.eurosurveillance.org&amp;#x2F;content&amp;#x2F;10.2807&amp;#x2F;1560-7917.E...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  0% fatal, 0.13% ICU, 1.2% hospital
  4.3% Covid-recovered 
  76% double vax, 7% booster
  14% unvax, 2% single vax
  77% no travel history
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Edit: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cnn.com&amp;#x2F;2021&amp;#x2F;12&amp;#x2F;18&amp;#x2F;politics&amp;#x2F;white-house-omicron-warning-joe-biden&amp;#x2F;index.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cnn.com&amp;#x2F;2021&amp;#x2F;12&amp;#x2F;18&amp;#x2F;politics&amp;#x2F;white-house-omicron-...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt; Some of Biden&amp;#x27;s advisers are encouraging the administration to begin discussing publicly how to live alongside a virus that shows no signs of disappearing ...
Steering public attention away from the total number of infections and toward serious cases only -- as some Biden advisers have encouraged -- could prove a challenge after nearly two years of intense focus on the pandemic&amp;#x27;s every up and down.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Edit2: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=29633899&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=29633899&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt; The CDC’s Nowcast algorithm has some kind of bug, and the prevalence of Omicron nationwide wasn’t really 73% in the week ending December 18.  Take that to the bank ... You will see this walked back.  The CDC will explain what happened.  The Twitter experts will have to walk back their initial tweets.  The press will have to publish a new round of articles clarifying their prior wave of headlines.  It might happen tomorrow, later this week, or some time next week, but it will happen.  This result won’t stand.&lt;/i&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>roenxi</author><text>Yeah, but it is really too early to tell. The cases in that update are largely in young people (age &amp;lt;= 65) and it takes about a week from symptom onset to end up in hospital. That data seems to be as at 9 Dec, even if the hospitalisations were high the data would not necessarily show them.</text></comment>