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SA severity may not be representative because of greater prior immunity and a younger age skew.

joshuahedlund 5y ago
Exhibit B will be the UK. Their cases started spiking about two weeks ago. So far their hospitalizations haven't budged and are even a bit lower than they were a month ago, less than a quarter of their pandemic peak[1] [1]https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/healthcare https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/healthcare
- nooneisanon 5y ago
  If you're looking at the UK the daily numbers for London (which is ahead of the rest of England, and the rest of the UK) are here: https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/covid-19-hospital-activity/ https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas...
  - joshuahedlund 5y ago
    Thanks. Looks like you can filter my link by London as well, which shows hospital admissions have doubled in the last 10 days from about 1/6 to about 1/3 of the previous peak (though patients in hospital is lower at 1/4, possibly reflecting shorter stays but hard to say). London cases have continued spiking since but may possibly be peaking now (not sure how much lag there is in backdating reported cases here) so it will be interesting to see how much the hospital numbers rise from here.
- rich_sasha 5y ago
  Hospital admissions are actually up a little: https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/ https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/ (parent link of the one you provided). That said, deaths are still dropping, and have been dropping since November, which was a local minimum in case numbers. The pertinent fact, I think, is that the UK is vaccinating like crazy, coming up to 1m boosters per day recently (total population just short of 70m IIRC), even 12-18 year-olds are getting jabbed now.
- bigodbiel 5y ago
  England had high prevalence during the Summer, so not even them, maybe Denmark
- ChrisRR 5y ago
  That is skewed by the vaccinations of course.
abainbridge 5y ago
Comparing SA with itself, omicron looks less severe than delta.

Exhibit B will be the UK. Their cases started spiking about two weeks ago. So far their hospitalizations haven't budged and are even a bit lower than they were a month ago, less than a quarter of their pandemic peak[1] [1]https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/healthcare https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/healthcare

nooneisanon 5y ago
If you're looking at the UK the daily numbers for London (which is ahead of the rest of England, and the rest of the UK) are here: https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/covid-19-hospital-activity/ https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas...
- joshuahedlund 5y ago
  Thanks. Looks like you can filter my link by London as well, which shows hospital admissions have doubled in the last 10 days from about 1/6 to about 1/3 of the previous peak (though patients in hospital is lower at 1/4, possibly reflecting shorter stays but hard to say). London cases have continued spiking since but may possibly be peaking now (not sure how much lag there is in backdating reported cases here) so it will be interesting to see how much the hospital numbers rise from here.
rich_sasha 5y ago
Hospital admissions are actually up a little: https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/ https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/ (parent link of the one you provided). That said, deaths are still dropping, and have been dropping since November, which was a local minimum in case numbers. The pertinent fact, I think, is that the UK is vaccinating like crazy, coming up to 1m boosters per day recently (total population just short of 70m IIRC), even 12-18 year-olds are getting jabbed now.
bigodbiel 5y ago
England had high prevalence during the Summer, so not even them, maybe Denmark
ChrisRR 5y ago
That is skewed by the vaccinations of course.

abainbridge 5y ago

Comparing SA with itself, omicron looks less severe than delta.