Both Delta and Omicron are making this winter peak different from past surges.
The U.S. has once again reached an ignoble pandemic milestone, with more than 100,000 Americans currently hospitalized with covid-19. The rise in hospitalizations follows a dramatic surge in cases fueled by the emergence of the Omicron variant. But there are several considerations that will make this peak in illness different from those in the past.run by Newsnodes and BNO News, there are 104,737 Americans hospitalized with covid-19, including nearly 20,000 in intensive care units.
The data is very clear by now that an individual case of Omicron is milder on average than an individual case of Delta. This mildness is partly due to the immunity that many people carry to the coronavirus—immunity that may not prevent infection but still can blunt its harm to the body. There’s alsothat Omicron is inherently less likely to cause severe illness because it doesn’t infect lung cells as readily as previous strains of the virus.
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