The next month could be extra challenging.
Hospitalizations rates are rising, too. Per Reuters, thebeing hospitalized has increased 45 percent in the past week and climbed to more than 111,000—which is a number that hasn't been seen since Jan. 2021. The average case of Omicron has around a 60 percent lower chance of landing you in the hospital than the average case of Delta, Wachter said. But that's not enough to stop hospitals from filling up.
Wachter added,"And so we have a pretty miserable month, even though the average patient has a lower chance of ending up in the hospital than he or she would have had if they had a case of Delta, particularly if they're vaccinated."The UCSF chair is hardly the only expert who has warned about rising hospitalizations and potentially deaths despite the variant being milder overall.
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