Omicron Hospitalisation Risk Far Below Delta's In Early Studies
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An Imperial College London team working with a larger set of data from England found that people with Omicron were 15% to 20% less likely to visit the hospital and 40% to 45% less likely to require an overnight stay.
The Omicron variant of Covid-19 may be less likely to land patients in the hospital than the Delta strain, according to a trio of studies of preliminary data.
Researchers in Scotland suggest Omicron is associated with a two-thirds reduction in the risk of hospitalisation when compared with the earlier variant, though Omicron was 10 times more likely than Delta to infect people who'd already had Covid.
An Imperial College London team working with a larger set of data from England found that people with Omicron were 15% to 20% less likely to visit the hospital and 40% to 45% less likely to require an overnight stay.
The fresh data add to earlier findings Wednesday showing that South Africans contracting Covid-19 are 80% less likely to be hospitalised if they catch the new variant, compared with other strains. Omicron infections are also associated with a 70% lower risk of severe disease than Delta, the study by the National Institute for Communicable Diseases showed.
