Omicron?
Isn’t that they one that’s indistinguishable from the common cold?
Some people still get very ill from omicron and BA.2 and BA.3 its two sub lineages. For those people who’s own body either cannot or did not in time develop killer antibodies using an infusion of mAb usually saves their lives. Americans are largely walking comorbidities with an obesity rate over 40% and nearly a 50% hypertension rate for adults over 40 it’s little wonder people still get deathly ill from a bug that targets those health issues. Its a good thing that these mAb retain effect against omicron since it’s going to be around basically forever now that it has reached endemic proportions. The key is getting the mAb before the bug trashes your lungs and then you have a multi month recovery.
In 41 years of infectious diseases practice, I have never seen anyone intubated and requiring mechanical ventilation from a common cold.
It's certainly true that, whereas with delta surging, we would have 13-15 ICU patients, now we have 2-4. That's a good thing.
But it's not a cold.