As the Omicron variant sweeps through South Africa, Dr Unben Pillay is seeing dozens of sick patients a day. Yet he hasn't had to send anyone to the hospital.
And that includes older patients and those with health problems that can make them more vulnerable to becoming severely ill from a coronavirus infection, he said.In the two weeks since Omicron first was reported in southern Africa, other doctors have shared similar stories. Just three per cent of patients hospitalised recently with COVID-19 have died, versus about 20 per cent in the country's earlier outbreaks.
Gauteng saw a 400 per cent rise in new cases in the first week of December, and testing shows Omicron is responsible for more than 90 per cent of them, according to health officials. Dr Pillay is a director of an association representing some 5,000 general practitioners across South Africa, and his colleagues have documented similar observations about Omicron.
Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)
What are the symptoms?
It may be milder but if it is more contagious, the numbers will be so much higher.. so just do the math. You can have more people in hospital than a less contagious more serious illness.
Fiona_M_Russell Why is it that people think only hospitalisation and deaths are the key markers in this? Long Covid…chronic illness happens, often from only mild disease. Death of brain grey matter and loss of IQ. Ask anyone with ME/CFS which is similar if you want their life.
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You can't say that guys!
Virtually everything *except science which can’t yet determine*
ketaminh Surely too early to call. COvid has already run through the African continent, the weak succumbed, those left standing are immune or resilient, or both. Maybe this is why omicron is looking friendlier? Happy to be wrong on this.
Probably should headline that with “South African doctors say it’s too early to tell”… because that is, in fact, what the doctor said. I have an open mind on the matter…
Clearly someone who has been indoctrinated by mainstream thinking. What a thought for People like you - jabbed and starting to hear that this is lesser impactful AND that more boosters are required even though they don’t yet know how effective jab is against moronic variant.
Fake news.
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