Posted on 12/18/2021 10:59:06 AM PST by SeekAndFind
South African Health Minister Joe Phaahla said today that only 1.7% of COVID cases in the current Omicron wave are being hospitalised compared to 19% in the previous wave and that the vast majority of cases are “fairly mild.”
“In the current wave, only 1.7% of Covid cases are being hospitalized, an average of fewer than 350 cases daily over the past two weeks, versus an average of more than 800 in the previous wave, at an average of 19%,” reports Business Tech based on Phaahla’s statement.
Gauteng, the province that includes Johannesburg, has also seen a decline in positivity rate to 25%, meaning the Omicron wave could be past its peak in that region.
According to the data, hospitalisations are also lower across all age ranges, contradicting claims in the UK that it would be hit harder due to its older population.
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As we highlighted yesterday, Phaahla said rates of hospitalisations and deaths remain “relatively low,” adding that there was no need to raise the restriction level and telling South Africans to enjoy their Christmas.
Such good news isn’t apparently welcome to governments in the UK, which continue to impose more draconian measures which have served to all but cancel Christmas, despite the fact that just 15 people have been hospitalised with Omicron and just one person has died.
In England, Professor Chris Whitty appears to be ignoring data out of South Africa to make doomsday predictions about there being over 4,000 hospitalisations a day from Omicron.
There is also a continuing obsession with insisting it is “too early” to make judgments on data coming out of South Africa despite such data for weeks confirming that Omicron is mild and isn’t causing hospitals to be overwhelmed.
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The population in South Africa is younger than the U.S. and Europe. So we’ll have to wait and see. Even if it’s less lethal, just because it is more infectious, it will cause a wave in hospitalizations and deaths unless it turned out that this variant is truly mild.
Every indication and all the data since this variant broke- from SA to England- has been this variant is significantly milder.
Hence it will mean nothing here in zhao biden’s America as it does not fit the agenda of fauci the fascist and the left.
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but the commie media wont report this because their plan is to shut down the country til November 2022..that way more mail in voting fraud will continue
its basically the sniffles
How many of those feeling ill are actually sick from some other virus, but they happen to be “testing positive” for COVID?
My boy just tested positive at ISU in Evansville. He has has symptoms since Monday and is almost sure it’s Omicron as his symptoms are only mild fatigue, scratchy throat and headache.
He says today he feels almost normal with the exception of the scratchy throat.
correct, I keep asking:
“How do the age, weight, and co-morbidity factors in SA compare with ours?”
One source said the average age in SA was 27 years old. So their experience could be meaningless, or not. The UK is heavily discounting it.
I’m old enough to remember when this would have been called the flu
So let me get this straight: The western nations are totally ignoring the actual data coming from South Africa and the results that South African doctors are saying?
So leftists really are the real racists
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