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If Omicron is less severe, why are people ending up in the hospital and dying from it? Is it true that everyone will eventually get Omicron? Why is it important to reduce transmission? WHO’s Dr Maria Van Kerkhove explains in Science in 5.
we’re talking about omicron today if it is a less severe variant why are people still ending up in hospitals and why is it still killing people so omicron is the latest variant of concern and we have increasing information that omicron is less severe than delta but it is still a dangerous virus people who are infected with omicron have the full spectrum of disease everything from asymptomatic infection all the way through severe disease and death what we are learning is that people with underlying condition people with advanced age people who are unvaccinated can have a severe form of cova-19 following infection from omicron
