The doctor from South Africa making that claim seems to have been basing it on a couple of dozen very self-selecting patients at her private practice. The reali

The doctor from South Africa making that claim seems to have been basing it on a couple of dozen very self-selecting patients at her private practice. The reality is that the hospitalizations are increasing rapidly in South Africa. https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1466480120215048199 https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1466480120215048199 It might be a bit milder (though we won't know for a while, there's a lot of confounding factors and data lag). It could also be a bit more seriousl. But it seems very unlikely to be an order of magnitude milder.