A Covid-19 'viral blizzard' is about to
hit the US, expert says, with 'millions'
to be infected soon
CNN,
by
Travis Caldwell
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
12/17/2021 9:01:08 AM
The coronavirus will hit millions of Americans in a "viral blizzard" within a few weeks as infections from the Omicron variant pile on top of Delta, an expert predicts. Already, hospitalizations are rising as the holiday season gets into full swing. Long lines for Covid-19 testing formed Thursday in metro areas, including New York, Boston and Miami. The Delta variant remains a problem. And Omicron, with its high transmissibility, could strike millions more soon, said Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota. "We're really just about to experience a viral CORRECTION*
*Source corrected: CNN is source; "Health" is a department, not to be attributed.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 12/17/2021 9:04:32 AM (No. 1009935)
Poor baby, got a sniffle, need some myocarditis to help get rid of it?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
joew9 12/17/2021 9:06:21 AM (No. 1009938)
All I can say is I better damn well not get it considering how sick the vaccine has made me for the last six months. I've suffered enough already but the vaccine side effects have not ended for me yet.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
FJB 12/17/2021 9:09:32 AM (No. 1009944)
Will those nitwits ever shut their faces? Go Buck Fiden.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
gop_guys 12/17/2021 9:10:46 AM (No. 1009947)
As Candace Owens states, after the 5th or 6th variant alarm, most aren’t listening anymore. I know my family isn’t.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Jethro bo 12/17/2021 9:25:16 AM (No. 1009966)
Based on the DCD's own published data, the daily testing now is about the same as it was a year ago. The hospitalizations and deaths a year ago were the highest of the Covid pandemic. However, hospitalizations are not currently tracking with the volume of testing. A year ago the hospitalizations spiked at ~120K per day. Currently around ~40K a day despite near equal testing. Even James Comey's FBI would call that a clue.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 12/17/2021 9:31:18 AM (No. 1009974)
Pardon me if I ignore the latest "wolf!" cry from the Feds.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Toby Ten Bears 12/17/2021 9:34:50 AM (No. 1009979)
How exciting! I can't wait!! (idiots)
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
john56 12/17/2021 9:48:12 AM (No. 1009999)
Of course. How will America survive without the great COVID leadership that now-disgraced and gone Gov. Cuomo is gone and his brother cannot inform the masses of his leadership?
On the other hand, at least our grandparents will be around for Christmas this year.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 12/17/2021 10:03:51 AM (No. 1010009)
Get ready for the 2022 COVID feardemic! Get your COVID ballot early and often! More ballots are being printed to meet the expected demand as we speak!
I'm off the COVID vaccine bandwagon. First, I did it for others, but that was meaningless. Then I did it because everyone else around me was being vaccinated. That stopped when the booster shot gave me a bout of irregular heartbeat. Why should I risk myself just because everyone else is?
Noticed the Lady Chihuahua is also thinking about getting off the vaccine bandwagon. She is willing to get one booster a year (just like the flu shot), but not more. Popular opinion regarding the vaccine is slowly turning.
The vaccine does not work. Too many vaccinated people are catching COVID and dying. The rate of infection and death is going up, not down. Nor is the vaccine safe. Complaints are coming in worldwide, and countries are starting to change policies. Look for the US to be last in this regard.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
JimBob 12/17/2021 10:04:06 AM (No. 1010010)
Does getting the Omicron variant provide natural immunity to the earlier variants?
If so, that could be the best REAL vaccination possible.
The only downside is for Big Pharma, who won't be selling their poison 'Clot Shot' to as many people.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
billa57 12/17/2021 10:04:59 AM (No. 1010012)
Heard immunity is almost here.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Marzipan4 12/17/2021 10:10:01 AM (No. 1010017)
Cue chicken little, flu season is upon us. We’re all gonna die and none will be left to pay taxes to our build back better bungle. But, who will make bricks dear king?
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Namma 12/17/2021 10:13:35 AM (No. 1010023)
my guess is, that if the experts know that a 'viral blizzard" is coming, they are the ones spreading the virus. After all, they seems to know all about the coming blizzard.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
jalo1951 12/17/2021 10:13:55 AM (No. 1010024)
So that means they might actually have to admit if you recover from covid you have natural immunity. With or without the shot you can get covid, with or without the shot you can spread covid. Soooooo, what's the problem?
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 12/17/2021 10:30:49 AM (No. 1010043)
More pandemic panic rubbish. Ignore it. Enjoy your Christmas and be merry. Let the fools suckers and idiots panic and roll up their sleeves.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
FLCracker 12/17/2021 10:30:54 AM (No. 1010044)
Yes, #5. We have gone from counting deaths (which may, or may not, have been caused by covid), to counting people who have been infected. They have to report on the biggest scary number.
What I want to know is, has the overall death toll for the last couple of years actually increased, and by how much?
#9, I'm not going to be a pin cushion for the Govt. I'm waiting to see if Pharma comes up with a new vaccine that addresses the new threat (if it proves to be one), as they do with the flue every year. And then I'll re-evaluate.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
CaptainLibra 12/17/2021 10:32:36 AM (No. 1010046)
What ever happened to that "got to flatten the curve" BS they were hyping last year? Is it flat?
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Safari Man 12/17/2021 10:36:42 AM (No. 1010052)
The dims are going to need to pay China more so they will concoct a more harmful strain of Covid. The current Chinese knock-offs are NOT ginning-up the fear like they used to.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
franq 12/17/2021 10:46:30 AM (No. 1010069)
I agree with #13. God preserve us.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Lucky5 12/17/2021 10:51:51 AM (No. 1010075)
Coldvid. The media is in full on fear mongering mode. It is so pathetic even the sheeple can see it.
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I happen to believe they are right. Because we who refuse the jabs know that these shots make everyone susceptible to every virus that comes down the path. Winter has always been a time of colds and flu, and I think the jabbed are going to fill the hospitals this winter. Maybe the media will finally admit it isn't the unjabbed who are the danger, it is they themselves.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Rama41 12/17/2021 11:06:06 AM (No. 1010097)
Headline leaves out: "Women and minorities hurt most".
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 12/17/2021 11:08:07 AM (No. 1010102)
Folks - - it's so apparent what the communist objective is - -
- - namely - - to keep hyping the Wuhan flu - - until no in-person voting is allowable - - and all voting must be done by mail.
Universal mail-out and mail-in ballots - - are the only way the commies can keep their power. Honest elections are the death knell for the commies - - and they know it.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
cor-vet 12/17/2021 11:15:23 AM (No. 1010112)
In this time of "one sex fits all", we need to combine the Karens and Kens into a single group, and call them the 'Fauxchis!'
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
DVC 12/17/2021 11:18:29 AM (No. 1010113)
"infected"? OK, simple, SIMPLE question......is ANYONE actually SICK?
BS testing, and a disease that seems to be down to about the same as a cold. But, we cannot trust about 90% or more of what is put in the media these days.
CDC lies.
NIH lies.
FDA lies.
Dr. Fraud lies.
Demented Joe lies.
Their 'high tech tests' lie.
Truth is the biggest casualty in this whole Dem-panic.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
BarryNo 12/17/2021 11:58:40 AM (No. 1010151)
My thought is that the Chinese designed these things for the Democrats, and they're being released to drive the Democrat agenda. The Democrats are waging Biological Warfare on the American People. Easiest thing in the World to carry this stuff around to be released in aerosol form. Need a new variant? Presto!!
The only reason these things aren't truly lethal, yet is that like any tyrant, you try to make sure the threat you use to beat on your serfs doesn't come back to bite you. Though I warn you. If we do rebel and they see their futures are done, they may have a more lethal variant in reserve.
It'll be revealed in 2024, if they don't take Trump out, before then.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
DVC 12/17/2021 12:29:59 PM (No. 1010179)
Re #10....it may well prove to be true, but certainly we don't yet know. Seems pretty likely, and I would assume that if enough of the external structures are the same between Alpha and Omicron it should be a good analogy to the cowpox/smallpox situation which brought the whole concept of vaccination to the medical community a couple of centuries back.
It's a reasonable expectation that getting infected with Omicron may provide effective natural immunity.
I still think that the untold story is that a large swath of people had natural immunity to the Alpha variant in 2019. Look up the technical papers on the Diamond Princess "experiment" in Feb-March 2020.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Debrawr 12/17/2021 12:44:50 PM (No. 1010185)
The Midterm Variant.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
MissMann 12/17/2021 12:50:16 PM (No. 1010190)
We've got a variant with mild symptoms yet provides natural immunity. This news should be greeted with cheers--and would be if we were actually "following the science." I feel like going out and licking doorknobs to ensure I catch it!!!
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
Rather Read 12/17/2021 12:54:26 PM (No. 1010194)
My very large family are all going to get together at Christmas. We did it at Thanksgiving and no one got covid. So we are getting together at Christmas - we have all had vaccines or have recovered from mild covid and all the grinches in the DC swamp can mask up and eat gruel. We plan to have fun.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
Strike3 12/17/2021 1:04:22 PM (No. 1010200)
In non-PC talk, the Winter cold season has arrived.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
JunkYardDog 12/17/2021 3:12:22 PM (No. 1010275)
Welcome to CNN! Tonite's story: FEAR. Fear of EVERYTHING. And only by LISTENING TO OUR BLOATED OVER-REACHING GVT and its DRACONIAN MASK MANDATES CAN YOU BE SAFE! Remember CNN fans, being AFRAID is What We DO at CNN.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
Norway 12/17/2021 3:19:21 PM (No. 1010281)
Complete and utter bullsheet.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
WV.Hillbilly 12/17/2021 4:00:11 PM (No. 1010312)
Millions more end up with with natural immunity.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
DVC 12/17/2021 4:58:14 PM (No. 1010344)
Just two more weeks to flatten the curve!
/s off
Yada, yada, yada. Nothing is going to change in my daily routine.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
anonymous 12/17/2021 6:30:31 PM (No. 1010381)
The Left wants Omicron to be worse than it actually is.
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
kono 12/17/2021 6:41:45 PM (No. 1010386)
After "discovering" half a dozen variants and scattering thousands of untested illegal immigrants throughout the country, the Left think they have everything set up for a "blizzard" of cases. Create a problem, promise to solve it, fail miserably (and make the problem even worse), then bill us to repeat the process....
They tried to get unemployment to soar, but couldn't organically, so they devise a "virus", declare emergency powers, force a quarter of the workforce to be indefinitely furloughed as "non-essential". That was enough to force universal-mail-in-balloting to steal an election. Now force another quarter of the workforce to be fired through specious "vaccine" mandates, so they can repeat the steal in the midterms.
Have we had enough of the CommieBullshit, yet? I know I have...
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