THE OMICRON variant might be infecting more than 100,000 people per day in the UK, but official figures show that the number of hospitalised patients who require ventilators to survive Covid is the lowest since January 2021.
reported on December 28 in the UK, it appears only 9.88 percent of those who are hospitalised due to Covid require a ventilator bed. At the worst point of the pandemic in 2020, more than 15 percent of Covid patients needed a ventilator, but the record was set in July 2021 with nearly 18 percent.The new figures could justify the studies claiming that Omicron symptoms are milder.
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