The Omnicron variant is killing 1250 people per day since Jan 3rd. Delta variant was more deadly. I posted that unvaccinated people are dying from Omnicron and they are. The 1250 deaths per day is not something to be happy about.
https://www.vox.com/coronavirus-covi...ns-deaths-2022
Originally Posted by adav8s28
VOX. unreliable source
South Africa is over Omicron, and their good news may be a harbinger of hope for the U.S.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-o...turning-point/
Johannesburg — Only eight weeks after the world first heard about the
Omicron variant of the
coronavirus, when researchers in South Africa who discovered the strain notified global authorities, that country's wave of infections has fallen as sharply as it climbed. Not only that, but South Africa has weathered its fourth wave of COVID-19 with very little interruption to people's lives.
CBS News foreign correspondent Debora Patta reports that in the suburbs of Johannesburg, restaurants are busy again, traffic is jammed, and the city is bustling
.
Omicron quickly became the focus of global anxiety as infections spread across South Africa with ferocious speed. Within days, the country was at the epicenter of the pandemic. And then… well, not much happened at all.
"The Omicron wave now accounts for less than 5% of all of the deaths that have occurred due to COVID-19 [in South Africa] since the start of the pandemic," Madhi told Patta. He believes that while many more variants will emerge, the acute phase of the pandemic, with its devastating death tolls, may well be over.
South Africa is not alone, either. In Britain, too, there are signs that the Omicron wave — which hit just as fast as it did in South Africa — is ebbing, with
infections falling sharply in recent days and
no precipitous spike in deaths attributed to the Omicron wave. Scientists are optimistic that soon, COVID-19 may be referred to as an endemic disease in Britain, rather than an epidemic.