{"id":1170124,"date":"2021-12-29T17:06:45","date_gmt":"2021-12-29T22:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1170124"},"modified":"2021-12-29T17:06:47","modified_gmt":"2021-12-29T22:06:47","slug":"omicron-not-the-same-disease-as-previous-covid-variants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/omicron-not-the-same-disease-as-previous-covid-variants\/","title":{"rendered":"Omicron \u2018Not The Same Disease\u2019 As Previous COVID Variants"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fomicron-not-the-same-disease-as-previous-covid-variants%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1170124&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The new COVID-19 is not the same as the old COVID-19, according to John Bell, a professor of medicine at the University of Oxford and the U.K. government\u2019s life sciences adviser.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe incidence of severe disease and death from this disease has basically not changed since we all got vaccinated and that\u2019s really important to remember,\u201d he said Tuesday on BBC Radio 4.&nbsp;\u201cThe horrific scenes that we saw a year ago \u2014 intensive care units being full, lots of people dying prematurely \u2014 that is now history in my view and I think we should be reassured that that\u2019s likely to continue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On the new Omicron variant that is now spreading, he said: \u201cThe disease does appear to be less severe, and many people spend a relatively short time in hospital. They don\u2019t need high-flow oxygen, average length of stay is apparently three days, this is not the same disease as we were seeing a year ago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Researchers for a new study also say Omicron appears to be milder than the Delta variant, leading to up to 80% fewer hospitalizations.<\/p>\n<p>Of the people who contract the virus and are hospitalized, they\u2019re also 70% less likely to be admitted to the intensive care unit or be put on a ventilator compared to those with Delta, The Daily Mail <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10339089\/Omicron-Covid-MILDER-three-major-studies-confirm-Research-England-Scotland-South-Africa.html\">reported<\/a> on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medrxiv.org\/content\/10.1101\/2021.12.21.21268116v1\">study<\/a> led by South Africa\u2019s National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo even though cases of omicron were less likely to end up in hospital than cases of delta, it is not possible to say whether this is due to inherent differences in virulence or whether this is due to higher population immunity in November compared to earlier in the year,\u201d Paul Hunter, a professor of medicine at the U.K.\u2019s University of East Anglia, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10335919\/Omicron-80-CENT-likely-cause-hospital-admission-Delta-major-study-suggests.html\">told<\/a> the Mail.<\/p>\n<p>Another study found much of the same. \u201cA separate study out of Scotland, by scientists at the University of Edinburgh and other experts, suggested the risk of hospitalization was two-thirds less with omicron than delta. But that study pointed out that the nearly 24,000 omicron cases in Scotland were predominantly among younger adults ages 20-39. Younger people are much less likely to develop severe cases of COVID-19,\u201d the Associated Press <a href=\"https:\/\/fox11online.com\/news\/coronavirus\/omicron-less-likely-to-put-you-in-the-hospital-studies-say\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis national investigation is one of the first to show that Omicron is less likely to result in COVID-19 hospitalization than Delta,\u201d researchers wrote, the AP said. While the findings are drawn from early data, \u201cthey are encouraging,\u201d the authors wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, according to a report from the British government, which will release the early data in the coming days, the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 is milder than the Delta variant.<\/p>\n<p>The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), which operates much like the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), found that those who contract Omicron are less likely to become severely ill compared to people who get the Delta variant, according to the data, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/newsletter\/london-playbook\/scoop-omicron-milder-in-uk-new-years-fireworks-liz-vs-no-10\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Politico<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMore people are likely to have a mild illness with less serious symptoms \u2014 probably in part due to Britain\u2019s large number of vaccinated and previously infected people, and possibly because Omicron may be intrinsically milder,\u201d Politico reported. \u201cChief Medical Officer Chris Whitty has previously cautioned against too much optimism based on the initial optimistic signs from South Africa in the past few weeks. However, the UKHSA\u2019s view after studying cases in Britain is that Omicron is indeed usually less severe than Delta.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent, and ran the Drudge Report from 2010 to 2015. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new COVID-19 is not the same as the old COVID-19, according to John Bell, a professor of medicine at the University of Oxford and the U.K. government\u2019s life sciences adviser. \u201cThe incidence of severe disease and death from this disease has basically not changed since we all got vaccinated and that\u2019s really important to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1170124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1170124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1170124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1170124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1170124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}