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Re:How severe are Omicron Infections? by matthewmacleod on Sunday December 19, 2021 @05:06PM (#29618913)
For some reason the focus still seems to be largely on case counts instead of actual outcomes.

The reason seems obvious - it’s been only 25 days since the discovery of the first case. There haven’t been many outcomes yet to focus on - as far as I remember, the average time between symptom onset and hospitalisation is something like 10 days, depending on the age group.

Re:How severe are Omicron Infections? by epgui on Sunday December 19, 2021 @07:28PM (#29620215)
Also, incidence is how you track Rt, which is one of the most important metrics for infectious diseases.