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Omicron in Hong Kong

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Omicon came in the west after at least three other variants, the ancestral strain, alpha and delta. All i would say is that omacron is nor a mild strain. It is at least as severe as the ancestral strains. So if you actually add all the mobidity and mortality numbers up cumulatively, then we're not really out of the ordinary. We were ar really just part of this natural history. With the exception, and it's an important exception, that is, we experienced it twoyear after cobet emerged, and one year fully into the vaccine era.

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