[HN Gopher] Vaccines and Omicron mean Covid now less deadly than...
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       Vaccines and Omicron mean Covid now less deadly than flu in England
        
       Author : diaphanous
       Score  : 15 points
       Date   : 2022-03-10 20:58 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | OnlyMortal wrote:
       | As it happens, there's been a 52% increase in infections and 17%
       | increase in hospitalisation recently. Death rates are flat
       | though.
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       | Was reported on Channel 5 News today.
        
       | diaphanous wrote:
       | https://archive.ph/W8HfL
        
       | somewhereoutth wrote:
       | It may well be less deadly, but it is far more contagious.
       | Reinfection also seems to be not uncommon. We do not fully
       | understand the long term effects of even a mild case, or indeed
       | how repeated reinfection might compound any such effects, given
       | that we might expect to catch it once or twice a _year_ as
       | opposed to once or twice in our lives for flu.
        
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