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Re:Omicron variant was 73% of U.S. covid cases last week by nostrademons on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @01:44AM (#29634686)
Hospitalizations are not flat. They're doubling roughly every week [1], and are at close to 50% of their Delta peak [2].

[1] https://www.nicd.ac.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/NICD-COVID...

[2] https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/omicron-updat...

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Re:Omicron variant was 73% of U.S. covid cases last week by runeks on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @03:18AM (#29635170)
The first link seems to show a flattening. Where are you seeing a doubling per week here?
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Re:Omicron variant was 73% of U.S. covid cases last week by nostrademons on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @12:24PM (#29639632)
Ignore the last bar (2021.50) - there are reporting delays, and the total goes up as more data comes in. The following day [1] shows it at 6887, +1292 for the day, and the day after [2] shows it at 8019. This is good practice for any very recent (< 1 week old) data - expect there to be reporting delays, and that the most recent totals will be updated in the future.

If you look at the bars for 2021.46 - 2021.49, there's a clear exponential trend with a doubling time of about a week, going from 715 to 1446 to 3994 to 7558.

[1] https://www.nicd.ac.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Datcov19_N...

[2] https://www.nicd.ac.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Datcov19_N...

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