Does omicron lead to hospitalization? How sick does omicron make a person? UK studies suggest omicron is less likely to lead to hospitalizations.
A medical worker performs a Covid test at a drive-thru site in London this month.During a media briefing Wednesday, Dr. Jim McMenamin, a director at Public Health Scotland, called the research"qualified good news," but added that"it's important that we don’t get ahead of ourselves. The potentially serious impact of omicron on a population can't be underestimated."
While promising,"it doesn't mean that we are able to throw caution to the wind and have a big holiday party in which we get all of our elderly relatives together and start coughing on them," said Bill Hanage, an associate professor of epidemiology at Harvard's T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
"I would point out that even if you have a diminution in severity, if you have a much larger number of individual cases, the fact that you have so many more cases might actually obviate the effect of it being less severe," he said.Dr. Christopher Murray, a professor of health metrics sciences at the University of Washington and director of the
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