Omicron - How does it change Covid risk and what should we do about it?
[Crossposted from https://firstsigma.substack.com/p/omicron with a few small updates to the estimates from the last couple days] My thoughts on how Omicron affects Covid risk and what we should do about it. In particular, I wanted to address some common questions I've seen along the lines of "since it's less severe shouldn't I worry less?" and "is it so transmissible that everyone's going to get it, and if so is there any point in trying to avoid it?" SUMMARY tl;dr: it's worse than Delta and not as bad as during the 2020 surges (since that was befor...
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