Dr. Howard Smith Oncall

  Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/n1Y55Jk-mp0   With Omicron spreading faster than any previous CoVid version, it is proving to be the deadliest variant to date with a previous 7-day average of 2200 deaths.  This is far greater than the numbers recorded during the Delta variant’s heyday and the greatest number of cases since February, 2021 when CoVid vaccinations were just beginning.   The CDC reports that Omicron kills 9 persons per 1,000 cases compared with 13/1,000 for Delta and 16/1,000 during the pre-vaccine era.  With the current 7 day average of 555,252 cases per day and a reported 30% increase in deaths, Omicron could kill more than 4,997 persons a day or more than twice as many persons as previously reported.   One reason Omicron is killing so many is that far too many vaccinated persons are not boosted.  We know that 2 shots of the otherwise excellent mRNA vaccines just don’t vanquish Omicron well enough.   We all want the pandemic to be over, but that fact is that it’s not.  Cases are dropping, but it’s