MRNA - Omicron patients are less likely to end up in hospitals real-word data suggest

Newly released results from several studies on Wednesday indicated that the patients infected with the Omicron variant of coronavirus are less likely to put patients in hospitals compared to the Delta variant. In one study conducted in the U.K., data collected from Scottish hospitals by a group of researchers suggest that Omicron infections are linked to two-thirds of the reduction in the risk of hospitalization compared to Delta. However, given the high transmissibility of Omicron, hospitals will still overwhelm with COVID cases, experts, including Dr. Jim McMenamin, an incident director for Covid-19 at Public Health Scotland who conducted the study, warned, according to The New York Times. Meanwhile, a team of researchers at Imperial College London reported similar results after comparing Omicron and Delta cases in the first two weeks of December. According to initial estimates, those with Omicron are 15 – 20% less likely to visit a hospital and 40 –

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Omicron patients are less likely to end up in hospitals, real-word data suggest