https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-59696499
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UK researchers have analysed the likely impact that a Covid booster shot will have on Omicron and say it could provide around 85% protection against severe illness.
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.....protection against severe disease from Omicron may be around 80 to 85.9%, compared to around 97% for Delta - the other variant that is currently dominant in the UK.
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Obviously 86% is not as good as 97%, but its still damn good, and better than 0%.
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However, there are other parts of the immune system, such as T cells, that can fight Covid too. The modelling could not assess the impact of these.
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Originally Posted by Pierre
Supposed to double every two days isn’t it, that hasn’t happened.
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That was never going to happen for very long.
At that rate it would soon run out of people to infect.
Looking at the governments covid site ;
* Deaths are still falling atm.
* Hospitalisations are starting to rise slightly.
-- They are still lower than Oct & Nov levels, and still nothing like last winter.
* Cases are rising (as also is testing).
-- The peak atm appears to have been Wednesday (incomplete data still atm).