{"id":23784,"date":"2021-12-23T14:41:30","date_gmt":"2021-12-23T19:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=23784"},"modified":"2021-12-23T14:41:30","modified_gmt":"2021-12-23T19:41:30","slug":"omicron-sucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=23784","title":{"rendered":"Omicron sucks&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;couldn&#8217;t find a political topic for today so I thought I&#8217;d talk about the latest covid variant, Omicron, and what is known about it now&#8230;the latest testing shows that 70-90% of new cases are no longer delta but omicron and shows how fast this new one spreads and that is a little scary&#8230;.but, it appears that it multiplies in the airways of the nose and doesn&#8217;t shred the lungs like delta does&#8230;at least that&#8217;s what it looks like so far&#8230;but, there are almost 140 million cases predicted in the US between Jan 1 and March 1 2022&#8230;.and that means that 60% of the US will have been infected with some form of covid&#8230;and the scary part is that 90% of those with omicron may not even know it and will spread it even farther and faster&#8230;.one tiny little ray of light is that it appears that the hospitalization rate from omicron is 90 to 96% less than delta and the fatality rate is 97 to 99% lower&#8230;but the sheer volume of infections will still overwhelm most hospital systems in the first three months of next year&#8230;.those of us that have gotten our booster shots have a really good chance of staying out of the hospital and then not having the long covid that is ravaging many in this country&#8230;it looks like my choice to stay away from my grandchildren was the right one&#8230;even though my kids are still pissed at me and aren&#8217;t talking to me anymore because I haven&#8217;t visited&#8230;oh, well&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;couldn&#8217;t find a political topic for today so I thought I&#8217;d talk about the latest covid variant, Omicron, and what is known about it now&#8230;the latest testing shows that 70-90% of new cases are no longer delta but omicron and shows how fast this new one spreads and that is a little scary&#8230;.but, it appears &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=23784\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Omicron sucks&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1114],"tags":[3078],"class_list":["post-23784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","tag-omicron-variant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23785,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23784\/revisions\/23785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}