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Kate 19:52 on 2021-12-14 Permalink Reply  

• jeather 19:57 on 2021-12-14 Permalink

  Hard to be certain if omicron is to blame (probably not, based on timing, though it will be soon) when we don’t sequence.

• Faiz Imam 22:45 on 2021-12-14 Permalink

  I work at RONA, minutes after the government announcement we received news that all office workers that started back at the office or in a hybrid mode only a month or two ago were to work from home until mid January.

• Michael 22:49 on 2021-12-14 Permalink

  Well, fuck me!

• steph 23:17 on 2021-12-14 Permalink

  I started a progressive return to work last week, one day a week. It’s now been called off. WFH has been 100% a sucess. I don’t know why any return is necessary. I won’t complain – in 2021 I went to the office a total of one day,

• H. John 11:33 on 2021-12-15 Permalink

  Public Health Ontario has a report out on early testing for Omicron. They found it probably counts for as many as 80% of new cases:

  Highlights

  • SGTF, a genetic marker seen in the Omicron variant, can be used as a sensitive variant screening method for identifying the Omicron SARS-CoV-2 lineage.
  • The modeled proportion of samples screening positive for SGTF increased from 80% are likely to be Omicron.
  • It is estimated that each Omicron case is infecting 7.7 times more individuals than Delta in Ontario during the November 28 to December 9 period