The first omicron outbreak in South Africa has peaked and appears to be sharply falling, holding out the prospect the omicron wave could be shortlived.
showed omicron infection in the lungs was significantly [10 times] lower than the original Wuhan variant, which researchers said may explain the lower disease severity being observed with omicron.
According to Yale medical professor Howard Forman, hospitalisation rates in South Africa were around 45 per cent of the delta outbreak, even though the number of omicron cases was 120 per cent of the delta peak. “First, there’s the simple limit to testing capacity. As things increase, our testing capacity doesn’t increase as fast, and so we’re missing more and more cases. That can give you a distorted picture – it could look like a plateau in Gauteng, but you could imagine it’s really a much higher crest.”
”As a rough guess, you might go from, like, one in 10 cases reported in South Africa to one in 20 or even one in 30 cases – that wouldn’t seem unreasonable to me.
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