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2021-12-19 15:26:56 UTC - SOMEWHAT_HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: E86D9517DA74688BEA42E345091806148923EECD9820CFC638D4153590328B34
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UK has 25k Omicron cases, 85 hospitalizations and 8 deaths, but 10k new cases just today. Public health experts react to cases, not deaths, because there is a two week lag between a spike in cases and hospitalizations, and a second lag between hospitalizations and deaths. https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-reports-leap-10000-confirmed-omicron-coronavirus-cases-2021-12-18 https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/hsph-in-the-news/data-animation-shows-time-lag-between-covid-19-cases-and-deaths/
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