Re:South Africa’s omicron coronavirus outbreak subsides as f...
by localhost on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @03:29PM
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One report [1] (of many now) about Omicron being less severe than Delta:
"Overall, we find evidence of a reduction in the risk of hospitalisation for Omicron relative to Delta
infections, averaging over all casesin the study period. The extent of reduction is sensitive to the inclusion
criteria used for cases and hospitalisation, being in the range 20-25% when using any attendance at
hospital as the endpoint, and 40-45% when using hospitalisation lasting 1 day or longer or hospitalisations
with the ECDS discharge field recorded as “admitted” as the endpoint (Table 1)"
"Overall, we find evidence of a reduction in the risk of hospitalisation for Omicron relative to Delta infections, averaging over all casesin the study period. The extent of reduction is sensitive to the inclusion criteria used for cases and hospitalisation, being in the range 20-25% when using any attendance at hospital as the endpoint, and 40-45% when using hospitalisation lasting 1 day or longer or hospitalisations with the ECDS discharge field recorded as “admitted” as the endpoint (Table 1)"
[1] https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/m...