China prepares to face down Omicron
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Is This a Pandemic?
It's spreading very quickly, and that seems to be due to a combination of increased transmiss ability and potentially some ability to get around prior immunity. For those very first cases, we don't have a final count of deaths. There is some indication from south africa that maybe the severity in terms of hospitalization might be lower but it's very difficult to say definitively at this early stage. Because it's slightly milder, it could actually lead us towards a slightly more bearable, i suppose, pandemic where we adjust to a disease that is just a little bit less dangerous.
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