On the ground despite doubling numbers in my region every three days, there is no increase in hospitalizations. I am of the opinion that this has mutated into a common cold. More upper than lower respiratory. What CoVID I am seeing looks more like delta which was devastating no matter what the conga line of idiots has to say.
This continues to look like a game ender.
The thing I have noticed on that sight is the graphs for daily cases and daily deaths. There are 4 spikes on cases, approximately the same size. However, each matching spike on deaths gets smaller, to the point where there is no appreciable increase in deaths during the increase of (assumed) omicron cases. This is also represented by the weekly trends. For the world, cases are up 8%, deaths down 6%. For the US, cases are up 20%, deaths down 1%.
My local test site has had no line for months. Yesterday, a long line wrapped around it.
It seems like the first big Omicron wave (Gauteng Province, around Johannesburg) has already crested, and hospitalizations/severity remained markedly lower than during the Delta wave there.
Delta had a big run there, and it’s wave was complete before Omicron hit. We might have them both overlapping somewhat, if cross-immunity is weaker with Omicron, until Delta naturally burns out locally.