Covid case counts may be losing importance amid Omicron

President Joe Biden’s chief medical adviser, Dr Anthony Fauci, said, "...it is much more relevant to focus on the hospitalisations as opposed to the total number of Covid cases".

The explosive increase in US coronavirus case counts is raising alarm, but some experts believe the focus should instead be on Covid-19 hospital admissions. And those aren't climbing as fast.

Dr Anthony Fauci, for one, said Sunday on ABC that with many infections causing few or no symptoms, "it is much more relevant to focus on the hospitalisations as opposed to the total number of cases". Other experts argue that case counts still have value.