Early Data Hints at Omicron's Potential Toll Across America

[NickB79]

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/01/09/us/omicron-cities-cases-hospitals.html?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=news_tab&fb_news_token=9yBhPfLLjZ8KRyIhMw%2FFuA%3D%3D.N%2BFxIFum4BQeVy%2BNrMp9Rtqw1Bu8eBuKQZ2fO380K7GcvJ%2B%2F2JDSq4fS%2BIKN1JL0RmLlP3DUxlQbQKAlP%2BldbhOeaLl%2BMCYH9LRe6IUV7Dxbv3DzMtD5MeO3FZvYx0MAMNaJaB%2FOqWJUftxCqFE9cjsgGaeB26FZv94W0bsS5PRqyxNmiAzo7vCT1E2N6WzL23uShlrjgRxbEoPT6lRaWZj%2FM%2B5qz9p7K%2B8R086hJC945uHSRRziTsHsk3MfdJ7t8fSwwlMfu6BAR9ahsd2Nt9od1j7Ddiqr7M0ev65ktQI%3D

The extremely transmissible Omicron variant is spreading quickly across the United States, making up a vast majority of U.S. cases after becoming dominant in the week before Christmas.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have said that it is still too soon to predict the full impact Omicron could have on deaths and illness across the country. But data in some of the earliest-hit cities is beginning to show what the future could hold.

In New York City, Boston and Chicago — cities with some of the country’s earliest Omicron surges — deaths have followed cases at a slightly reduced scale than in previous peaks. But because of the extraordinarily high case count, even a proportionally lower death toll from the current case curve in the United States could be devastating.

[BigmanPigman]

1. I was just thinking the same thing.

It is simple math.