South Africa Covid death count today 128.
Maybe the most attention getting item in the world . . . Russian case count decline has reversed upwards. No sign of it in deaths yet. Should not take long.
What you fail to mention, fearmonger, is that this number of deaths is 1/6 the level of their January 2021 peak, and that new cases in the last month have declined from 37K on December 12 to about 5.2K on January 14. Even deaths are substantially down today from yesterday.
Omicron has been radically less deadly even while infecting record numbers of people, and cases in South Africa had an extremely fast run-up followed by a nearly equally dramatic decline.
Down from 140 the previous Friday.
Obviously they are just starting Omicron.
Any guesses as to whether Omicron has reached a major Russian city or populaton it had not, previously?
(Sort of like some states here in the US “lagging”.)
And... the incredible virion numbers increase the chances of a mutation set that retains the R0 and immunity hopping of Omicron, and regains the CFR of Delta. Many misunderstand: A CFR of under 5% combined with the manner and timing of COVID's transmission puts essentially no genetic or "evolutionary" pressure on COVID to NOT jump back up in CFR. Think of it similarly to flu: Eventually a nastier variant will arise. Hopefully we can adapt.