Legal Insurrection by Leslie Eastman 1/9/2022
Meanwhile, former Biden advisors publish ‘endemic COVID’ policies in JAMA.While the United States is dealing with its Omicron variant surge, the United Kingdom had its wave hit several weeks earlier.
Scientists and public health officials are reviewing the numbers, and it appears the variant may be less deadly than seasonal flu.
Some experts have always maintained that the coronavirus would eventually morph into a seasonal cold-like virus as the world develops immunity through vaccines and natural infection. But the emergence of the highly-mutated Omicron variant appears to have sped the process up.
MailOnline analysis shows Covid killed one in 33 people who tested positive at the peak of the devastating second wave last January, compared to just one in 670 now. But experts believe the figure could be even lower because of Omicron.
The case fatality rate — the proportion of confirmed infections that end in death — for seasonal influenza is 0.1, the equivalent of one in 1,000.
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