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The Deadly Omicron News for Trump-Humpers Laid Bare
Omicron is on its way, and it loves to infect people who’ve been previously infected with other variants of Covid, the unvaccinated, and even people who think they’re fully vaccinated (but not boosted).
While all of us can get infected with Omicron, how sick you get from that infection is very different, depending on which category you belong to.
Consider this graphic of infections versus deaths in the United Kingdom, where 89.3% of citizens are vaccinated, 81.5% have received a second dose, and 44.3% have gotten a booster on top of the other two doses.
The first bump in infections (top graphic, far left) lead to a massive increase in deaths (second graphic on the far left). That’s because it’s from the first wave of infection, before anybody knew how to treat Covid: many people died because physicians hadn’t yet figured out intubation and the use of steroids, and monoclonal antibodies didn’t exist.
In the second bump of infections (top, middle) Britain’s National Health Service had figured out how to treat Covid so the number of deaths, while high, is a fraction of what it would have been without the benefit of…
