Op-ed:

Variant Truths

By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots / Right Side Patriots Radio

 

...Simply, it took a certain amount of time for the original Covid-19 strain to reach our shores, and it also took time for the Delta variant to start raising havoc here in our country as well, but Omicron reached our shores sooner rather than later and has proven itself to spread more quickly. However, that does not change the fact that in epidemiology a very steep and fast increase in the number of those infected by a virus tends to be followed by a just as fast and steep decrease in viral illness along with its symptoms tending to be less severe in nature, including seeing less hospitalizations and deaths.

 

And this is the scenario South Africa has proven, and it's the same scenario we are now seeing here in the U.S. And said scenario has changed to such a degree that health expert Dr. Ashish Jha, the Dean of the Brown University School of Public Health and former health expert at Harvard University, recently stated that public health officials should stop using previous Covid-19 case data as the central metric by which the severity of the current Covid-19 pandemic is measured, because it's no longer reliable as Omicron does appear less virulent despite its being highly contagious...

 

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