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Sydney is in the middle of our omicron outbreak and 50% of cases in hospital are vaccinated and 50% are not.
93.1% vaccination rate, omicron seems mild but for the elderly and those with preexisting life threating issues it can be the thing that pushes them over the edge.
For the 6.9% of unvaccinated population that make up the other 50% of hospital admissions its another story, most are under 50 years and few, if any have preexisting conditions.
We locked down for Alpha and Delta and just let Omicron rip, sadly the economic downturn has been worse under omicron due to the numbers off work and not even able to work from home..
Hopefully future strains in the years and decades ahead are this mild and our failed experiment of letting a pandemic rip is never repeated again.
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