[RayChuang88]

It's a case of lots of positives but few people actually seriously ill from this variant. Especially those who have the full vaccine regime and those who have recovered from a COVID bout earlier.

[Brian Griffin]

See the graph about two-thirds down; hospitalizations are about 40% of the peak and climbing fast:

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/covidview/index.html