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There is a recently released preprint that concludes that omicron-infected have an 80% reduced likelihood to be hospitalised compared to non-omicron infections.

by snet0 5y ago

There is a recently released preprint that concludes that omicron-infected have an 80% reduced likelihood to be hospitalised compared to non-omicron infections. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.21.21268116v1 https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.21.21268116v... Of course, it's not yet peer-reviewed, and doesn't model the possible outcomes based on the conclusions, but it certainly seems to be great news.

rsfern 5y ago
This paper is interesting and I agree seems like good news. It was posted yesterday BTW. There is a wrinkle though: the 80% reduction in hospitalizations is compared to this summers delta infections, but they found no difference in hospitalizations compared to non-omicron infections this November (the time period of the study). They have some discussion of maybe if that’s due to prior immunity or something, but it seems like things are still just not clear, and more data is coming down the pipe.