The variants are growing weaker.... for all we know this omicron may be more of a cure than a disease... it may be the variant that provides mass herd immunity.
I give it another weak or so to know definitively—it was stated two weeks from initial discovery on 30 November to assess. I read S. African reports that it was actually weaker than Delta; I personally don’t think it started in SA or Botswana, but came in perhaps from Europe and the SA medical community jumped on it and reported ASAP, good for them. Then, PM Johnson announces a few hours ago the first Omicron=variant death in the UK. So will keep watching, who knows.
I think the results so far show that it is more highly transmissible but less deadly, i.e.