2/ A new pre-print (not yet peer-reviewed) study of almost 70,000 patients in CA finds that compared to Delta, #Omicron leads to less severe outcomes, with 50% fewer hospitalizations and 75% fewer ICU admissions. Hospital stays were over 3 days shorter.https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/11/health/california-omicron-hospitalizations.html …
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3/ Last week, a record number of 15 million COVID-19 cases was reported to the
@WHO, with over 43,000 deaths, each a tragedy.@DrTedros hammered home that, "Learning to live with this virus does not mean we can, or should, accept this number of deaths."https://twitter.com/mvankerkhove/status/1480989998879068168?s=20 …
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4/ Wastewater surveillance data in the Boston area is showing a sharp decline in COVID-19 levels- though the strain on the health care system may continue past any peak in cases.https://www.wbur.org/news/2022/01/12/wastewater-covid-level-decline-new-data …
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in cases reported last week: 15 million cases; 43461 deaths:
Each tragic.
Omicron is not mild
Omicron is not flu or the common cold
SARS-CoV-2 is not endemic yet
Now is not the time to give up