A report on hospital admissions in South Africa's worst-affected Omicron (B.1.1.529) COVID-19 variant district—Tshwane near Pretoria—sheds light on clinical patterns, offering some optimism, but with the caveat that the information portrays only the first 2 weeks of the surge.Meanwhile, some scientists who are assessing transmission data say case counts could dwarf the Delta (B1617.2) variant, which even in the face of milder disease would still overburden healthcare systems.
The worries about the more transmissible variant come amid reports of super spreader events in Norway and Denmark.Early snapshot at hot spot hospitalIn a Dec 4 report from the South Africa Medical Research Council, scientists detailed clinical findings and data from a