> In this Omicron phase, however, health outcomes from infection have been mild In the US, Omicron has killed about as many people as Delta did. It's slightly

> In this Omicron phase, however, health outcomes from infection have been mild In the US, Omicron has killed about as many people as Delta did. It's slightly less lethal on a per-case basis, but much more infectious, so on a population level, it's just as deadly. In Hong Kong alone, nearly ten thousand people died from Omicron when the government gave up the zero-CoVID policy. > There's also no winning condition in sight for this strategy Chinese public health officials have set out very clear and reasonable conditions for easing controls: a high level of vaccination, availability of antiviral drugs, overall mortality less than flu.