My current Best Guess from reading Reliable Internet Sources(tm): > What’s the hospitalization rate and long term effects from Omicron COVID? Hospitalization

My current Best Guess from reading Reliable Internet Sources(tm): > What’s the hospitalization rate and long term effects from Omicron COVID? Hospitalization could be about the same. While we see decreased hospitalisations in South Africa, the assumption is that this is due to widespread immunity from exposure to earlier waves and vaccinations. For the last two weeks, Omicron has been hitting populations that have higher shares of naive subjects. Now the first results on hospitalizations are coming in. Refreshing my tabs constantly :-) I assume that long-term damage is related to immediate severity, so it's likely not going to be worse. But I'm out on a twig here. > Do we have sufficient data to suggest that it’s milder than Delta etc? Suggestive evidence of mildness is being discussed. No conclusions.