the Sth Africa anecdotal reports of a more mild illness is being overturned by the experience in EU, UK and US.
the numbers of infection means that more people overall will be severely affected.
two days ago Vic reported two deaths with one being a man, 51 yrs with no co-morbidities... died with the omicron variant.
there is as yet no justification for assuming that omicron is milder..... its been almost a month since WHO said they were analysing the data, but the data is mixed due to some countries not being able to differentiate omicron from delta and other variants.
