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Originally Posted by PuckSlap

Wow… every other study done says the exact opposite. All symptoms are more mild and similar to the common cold.

Hospitals beds are more instead of less in South Africa, and people who are in hospital were tested positive for unrelated reasons for hospitalization.


https://www.nicd.ac.za/diseases-a-z-...datcov-report/


https://covid.joinzoe.com/post/omicr...over-in-london

Here you can compare the most common symptoms of Covid, alpha, and Delta. The symptoms aren’t similar until you get down to the bottom 4. Fever, coughing, fatigue.

https://covid.joinzoe.com/post/omicr...over-in-london

I don’t think the ZOE data supports your statement

From your links

To compare Delta and Omicron, London data was selected from a week where Delta was dominant (03-10.10.2021) and compared to the most recent data (03-10.12.2021). This initial analysis found no clear differences in the early symptoms (3 days after test) between Delta and Omicron.

Anyway we will know within a week once the UK sample gets larger and we can get real-time comparisons between Delta and Omicron rates of hospitalizations. Everyone is hoping for good news. The data to support it currently does not exist in an age adjusted, case adjusted manner.

Omicron case counts peaking in Guateng should mean that regardless of how bad it is it will be short lived.