Omicron variant was 73% of U.S. covid cases last week

Re:Omicron variant was 73% of U.S. covid cases last week by NicoJuicy on Monday December 20, 2021 @11:49PM (#29634016)

About backing things up:

The article you referenced, referenced a research with a added comment where they declare they can't deduct information about hospitalisation:

> add a comment on page 5 that the crude ratios of hospitalisations to cases give no information on severity on their own due to the differences in the age distribution of Omicron and Delta cases.

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/mrc-global-infectious-disease-ana...

So your referenced article seems useless about hospitalisation ( the information you extracted from it)

This is also from the UK who had an increase in delta already before Omicron came. My guess is that Denmark would be a better reference to compare hospitalization for Omicron.

Except if you are seeing something that i don't?

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Re:Omicron variant was 73% of U.S. covid cases last week by acdha on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @10:52AM (#29638533)

I shared that as an example of actual experts saying not to get over eager. Your post is confused enough that I’m not sure whether you thought I was saying it was more or less severe rather than what I intended: we need to wait for the data.

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Re:Omicron variant was 73% of U.S. covid cases last week by NicoJuicy on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @01:58PM (#29640706)

Didn't got that since I also said it before ? :p

Ps. Early data in Denmark is frequently updated and looks positive concerning hospitalisation.

( But still early after only 3 weeks)

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