{"id":9275,"date":"2022-01-12T10:34:24","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T18:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=9275"},"modified":"2022-01-12T11:16:17","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T19:16:17","slug":"encouraging-omicron-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2022\/01\/12\/encouraging-omicron-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"Encouraging Omicron Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is an encouraging pair of COVID charts<\/p>\n

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(via<\/a>, and<\/a>)<\/p>\n

What I see is that the number of Omicron cases per week is soaring but the number of deaths has not increased. Maybe just maybe this means that Omicron doesn’t kill people and (maybe maybe maybe, fingers crossed) Omicron is a contagious vaccine<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Omicron hit California on about December 22nd. Deaths usually follow confirmed cases in 2-4 weeks, but that doesn’t appear to have happened yet.<\/p>\n

Yes, there are lingering fears about long COVID<\/a>, delayed deaths and bad bad things<\/a>. Heck, have you seen the Rick and Morty episode where Rick makes a love potion for Morty? Hilarious, right?<\/p>\n

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This is an encouraging pair of COVID charts (via, and) What I see is that the number of Omicron cases per week is soaring but the number of deaths has not increased. Maybe just maybe this means that Omicron doesn’t kill people and (maybe maybe maybe, fingers crossed) Omicron is a contagious vaccine. Omicron hit […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9275"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9288,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9275\/revisions\/9288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}