> a bad cold or the flu If Covid was only 40% worse than the flu and the cold, then this wouldn't have been a pandemic at all. Also, one thing that possibly d

> a bad cold or the flu If Covid was only 40% worse than the flu and the cold, then this wouldn't have been a pandemic at all. Also, one thing that possibly distorts this study is that a large amount of South Africans got only vaccinated in recent months. Given that the vaccine is most effective in the beginning, this might positively affect South Africans's resilience against Omicron and it's not clear yet (afaik) to what extent that skewed the stats.