Omicron severity data and hospitalization rates

We have some reasonable data now on how severe omicron disease is. The good news is that it appears to be much less severe than Delta.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.20.21268096v1.full-text

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.21.21268116v1.full-text

https://www.research.ed.ac.uk/en/publications/severity-of-omicron-variant-of-concern-and-vaccine-effectiveness-

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/mrc-global-infectious-disease-analysis/covid-19/report-50-severity-omicron ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uni8FwH80k