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Just to be clear..
By 'no excess mortality', in this study, it means there was no significant difference in deaths in the (nosocomial) infected group compared with a non-infected group of matched controls.

gonna park this here...

According to a JAMA study of over 300,000 hospital admissions, mortality from nosocomial (hospital-acquired) SCV2 infections were a significant problem in the pre-vax/ pre-Omicron period. Since Omicron however, nosocomial covid was not associated with excess mortality.

"In the editorial, the authors write that the study findings suggest nosocomial transmission and mortality after the Omicron period seems to be no longer statistically significant"

Hospital-based COVID-19 less serious after Omicron (CIDRAP editorial)

Hayley Gleeson (journalist) sure seems aligned with the OzSAGE activist group.

From https://ozsage.org/our-principles/ :

"We have achieved elimination of measles and polio through vaccination in Australia, and it may be possible to do the same for SARS-CoV-2."

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It'd be nice to know whether there has been in fact a shitload of undetected infections with minimal or no symptoms, or whether cases weren't so high but GI shedding is increased with certain variants or on account of other factors related to immunity (or a combination). No one really knows. It's all speculative right now.

For the former, then there is more concern about community transmission during WW highs (for those who want to know). But it also means population immunity should be more established after such a wave.

What might be interesting is a study looking straight at the WW "source".. i.e. rectal swabs! Do certain variants collect in the GIT more than others? Are there "superpoopers"?? Are there factors related to the transmission event that can influence GI shedding? (I care not to elaborate)

China might look into this. They weren't shy of looking at rectal swabs back in 2020 (I remember there were a few papers in kids) and may revisit.

Much screaming on social media over the last couple of mths about JN.1 being the "2nd largest wave" based on wastewater levels.

In terms of hospital positives per capita, in the US, it was 7th, and for us, was equal 6th.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/current-covid-hospitalizations-per-million?country=USA~AUS

In the Netherlands, of patients sampled for flu-like or resp. illness, flu now dominates clearly and the common-cold coronaviruses are ahead of covid.

https://twitter.com/Marc_Veld/status/1750198896800796877/photo/1