Omicron’s high number of mutations in important viral proteins and signs that the variant was behind a surge of COVID-19 cases in South Africa quickly raised red flags, hurling the pandemic into yet another tsunami of uncertainty.
It’s still unclear if omicron causes milder disease.
“We should not be lulled into any type of complacency,” Ryan Noach, CEO of Discovery Health, a health insurance provider based in South Africa, said December 14 in a news conference. than delta, researchers report December 17. Data on hospitalizations there, however, are still limited. “Our delta surge is ongoing and, in fact, accelerating,” Jacob Lemieux, an infectious diseases physician at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, said in a December 14 call with reporters. “On top of that, we’re going to add an omicron surge. That’s alarming because our hospitals are already filling up. Staff are fatigued.
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