Omicron is a pussycat compared to the Wuhan strain of SARS-CoV-2.
While CDC stats are questionable because of so many people (at least 25% of the total) who are actually dying “with” COVID rather than dying “of” COVID, check out these CDC statistics on the lethality of Omicron variant …
The last row (Omicron) is just for one week of follow-up at the beginning of December 2021, but that allowed me to uncover the group sizes very easily.
The vaccinated group on the right represented 86% of the total here, so when you weight the average according to the number of people in each group, the average weekly death rate per 100,000 overall is just 1.788.
For perspective, the average weekly pneumonia/influenza deaths per 100,000 of the worst 12 weeks of the flu season of 2017/18 was 1.767.
The rough estimate is that Omicron isn’t worse than a severe case of the flu.
Applying a corrective fudge-factor to account for the fact that CDC deliberately overcounts COVID deaths by referring to at least 25% of everyone who dies “with” COVID as if they died “of” COVID, brings the corrected weekly death rate down to 1.341.
In other words — after correcting for the CDC “fudgery” — then Omicron isn’t even as bad a severe flu.
REFERENCE
[Week 51 of 2017 to Week 10 of 2018 inclusive had average weekly P&I deaths of 5764 when US population was 326.216 M] — CDC. Available: https://gis.cdc.gov/grasp/fluview/mortality.html
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Addendum
Interestingly, a web search for “Omicron fatality rate” brings up revolving websites, so that scrolling down just gives you the same core of about ~21 websites, recycled, over and over again.
If I was paranoid, I’d say that those ~21 websites are the ones that the government wants me to visit when doing research on Omicron, and that they don’t want me looking any deeper than that.
Thankfully, I’m not paranoid, so I completely understand that it must be a glitch where the search engines just cannot find any other data on Omicron, so that they merely recycle the first ~21 sites in cased you scrolled past them by accident.
In this way, the search engines are “looking out for you” and helping to make sure you didn’t miss anything from those ~21 websites that they found. Here’s a string of screenshots with the marker at right showing that I am scrolling down for the next 3 or 4 entries each time.
Watch for the repeats!
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Summary: 42 total websites and approximately 21 unique websites