> Severity of disease: It is not yet clear whether infection with Omicron causes more severe disease compared to infections with other variants, including Delta

> Severity of disease: It is not yet clear whether infection with Omicron causes more severe disease compared to infections with other variants, including Delta. Preliminary data suggests that there are increasing rates of hospitalization in South Africa, but this may be due to increasing overall numbers of people becoming infected We don't know for sure yet one way or another.