Look at South Africa. The Omicron variant swept through there starting about 8 weeks ago. It didn't cause a major increase in deaths.

This is absolutely false.

Before people die they have to be in the hospital. Hospitalization rates are extremely low considering the infection rate. Death rates are also very low.

This is essentially a flu at this point, even for the unvaccinated. People with 2 shots are as susceptible to omicron infection as the unvaccinated, and once the booster wanes, so will the triple boosted.

Child hospitalization rates are at an all time high

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/covid-warning-sym...

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/childrens-national-...

Read more carefully.

Hospitalization rates are down. Number of hospitalizations may be up but the spread is larger than it’s ever been. Omicron is 5x more contagious than the original Covid at levels we’ve never seen before as a society.

Sorry if that was unclear: yes we are saying the same thing, that more children are now in the hospital for covid. I was talking about the rate per 100k children.

And that number is trending up. It has actually being trending up since Delta: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7036e2.htm