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The figures are from Dec 24. I guess you didn't look.
But you're right that omicron changes some things because of how rapidly it spreads. Are you saying that with omicron the ratio of vaxxed/unvaxxed people needing healthcare will change? That all of a sudden the unvaxxed will quit needing proportionally way more healthcare than the vaxxed?
If so I'd like to hear why.
It's not clear yet how serious omicron's impact on the healthcare system will be, but Massachusetts is calling out the National Guard to help the hospitals. https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2021/12/21/massachusetts-activates-national-guard-to-support-hospitals/
Dec 24, yes, and the hospitalization stats are a lagging indicator. The hospital stats are for delta and pre-delta.
The hospital stats are for what was in the hospitals that day.
Asking again: how do you think Omicron is going to change things? Do you think the vaccines will no longer reduce the severity of infection from the virus?
Vaccination doesn’t stop omicron infection. That is known. I don’t know whether vaccine will no longer reduce severity of the infection from the virus.
FYI… vaccines were originally pitched as over 90% efficacy of preventing infection. Slowly, that changed to it reduces severe infection (not prevent, reduce). Now covid has progressed to a variant we call omicron, which is way milder than the original covid that we shut down for. Maybe the vaccines will reduce an already low hospitalization rate of vaccinated people, maybe not.
They were always rated two ways: prevention of infection and reduction of severity. When unboosted the prevention efficiency slowly falls but its "effectiveness remains high against hospitalization or severe disease" https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/science/science-briefs/vaccine-induced-immunity.html
And spreads way faster, so we don't know yet how severe its impact will be on the healthcare system. The first few reports of death from it are trickling in. Interestingly one of them had "natural immunity" from a previous infection, and was unvaccinated. https://publichealth.harriscountytx.gov/Portals/27/Documents/HCPH%20Reports%20First%20Omicron%20Related%20Death%20sm.pdf?ver=oK77qT2qjHEIryPPhgBoog%3d%3d