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General consensus seems to suggest it is less severe to some degree: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/YBB9yZNJuz5j8hLdP/omicron-post-9 https://www.lesswrong.com/
by finolex1 5y ago
General consensus seems to suggest it is less severe to some degree: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/YBB9yZNJuz5j8hLdP/omicron-post-9 https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/YBB9yZNJuz5j8hLdP/omicron-po...
The problem is that there's so many factors to isolate (testing rates, vaccination rates, behavior changes, demographics of the infected population, etc.) that it is hard to get a precise number yet.
Of course, even if it's less severe, it's also more infectious which could make overall outcomes worse.
- NicoJuicy 5y agoAlso take into account the average hospital duration. Days suggests 2,5 days instead of 8,5 days and that gives a lot of wiggle room. Edit: it's not because of deaths...
- HWR_14 5y agoAverage hospital duration is a weird metric. It's easy to imagine 2 days being very good or very bad, depending on which door people left through.
- NicoJuicy 5y agoSouth Africa recorded no deaths in the beginning solely to omicron. So that would have been the good door. ( That's where the stat came from)