Good news is Omicron may be less severe, bad news is it’s surging faster

Analysis: smaller proportion of people hospitalised with Covid variant means little when rise in infections is so huge, warn experts

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Evidence that infections caused by Omicron may be less severe than other Covid variants is good news but is likely to make little or no difference to the duration of the pandemic, according to experts.

Several pieces of research published this week suggest that people infected with Omicron are much less likely to require hospitalisation.