Don't use Google, because the real numbers are censored. Use Duck Duck Go and you will find the information. Most people who test positive do not get sick. Yes, a lot of people are sick, but many more had a positive test and did not get sick.
They also inflate the hospitalization numbers. Everybody who goes to the hospital for whatever reason gets tested. If they test positive they count it as a hospitalization, even though the China virus was not why they are in the hospital.
I am sorry, but that is wrong, and I do use Duck Duck Go
"The
omicron variant has helped drive the United States into uncharted territory for
the pandemic. The country was
reporting an average of more than 400,000 new Covid-19 cases every day as of January 3, easily eclipsing last winter’s record of 250,000. And infections are still spiking, with the number of newly reported cases quadrupling since the beginning of December.
There is still a lot of uncertainty with the omicron variant: We’re still learning exactly how transmissible it is, how likely it is to cause severe disease and for whom. But
we know more now than we did when it first began spreading in the US.
All the early indications were that
omicron was even more transmissible than its predecessors, at least in part because of its ability to partially evade preexisting immunity, and that has proven to be true. While earlier CDC estimates that the variant took over in the US in mid-December
turned out to be overstated, omicron
now appears to have surpassed the previously dominant delta variant in its share of new US cases."
Even with less severe disease, omicron will bring big disruptions in the new year.
www.vox.com
Once you come down with a severe case of Omnicrom come back and tell us how mild it was. You most likely won't die from it, but you are going to feel like you are sick as hell, it is nothing like a common cold, at least it wasn't for me, my wife, or any of my friends who have come down with it. I have had pneumonia and I felt worse with the virus. I still have a nagging dry cough, sinus issues, and fatigue, chest muscles are sore from coughing too..
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