Coronavirus Thread: Worldwide Pandemic

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increased COVID case rates contributing to higher-than-planned unscheduled absences in some work groups — are resulting in an operation that isn't consistently up to the standards Delta has set for the industry in recent years," said Delta's Chief Customer Experience Officer Allison Ausband in a post.
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More than 7,000 flights canceled worldwide over Memorial Day weekend

More than 1,600 flights were canceled on Monday alone, according to flight tracking website FlightAware.
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US airlines are so desperate for pilots they are dropping some requirements and considering cutting training hours to get more pilots flying sooner

Regional airline Republic Airways asked the FAA in April for permission to hire pilots from its training academy with 750 hours instead of 1,500.
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Abandoning Zero Covid policy in China would have let the Covid spread into rural areas with lower vaccination rates and scarce healthcare infrastructure leading to:
- 112 million cases in 6 moths
- 5.1 million hospitalizations
- 1.55 million dead
- overwhelmed healthcare systems
According to a study in Nature:

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Modeling transmission of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron in China - Nature Medicine

Estimates from a new modeling study suggest that current levels of vaccine coverage in China are insufficient to prevent overwhelming the healthcare system, and that, if left untreated, a nationwide Omicron wave could result in up to 1.55 million deaths.
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barese said:
Abandoning Zero Covid policy in China would have let the Covid spread into rural areas with lower vaccination rates and scarce healthcare infrastructure leading to:
- 112 million cases in 6 moths
- 5.1 million hospitalizations
- 1.55 million dead
- overwhelmed healthcare systems
According to a study in Nature:

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Modeling transmission of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron in China - Nature Medicine

Estimates from a new modeling study suggest that current levels of vaccine coverage in China are insufficient to prevent overwhelming the healthcare system, and that, if left untreated, a nationwide Omicron wave could result in up to 1.55 million deaths.
www.nature.com www.nature.com
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don't we have like a million covid deaths and like 1/3 china's population?
 
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hashmander said:
don't we have like a million covid deaths and like 1/3 china's population?
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Yes, but during the whole pandemic, not just Omicron.


US still has better resources in rural areas than China.

Omicron death rate in the US is around the half of the estimated Chinese one in the study:
Should an Omicron variant epidemic be allowed to spread uncontrolled in mainland China, we project 1.10 deaths per 1,000 inhabitants over a 6-month period. By comparison, 187,372 deaths have been reported in the United States [38] (that is, 0.57 deaths per 1,000 inhabitants) over the period from 15 December 2021 to 15 April 2022, roughly corresponding to the Omicron wave.
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