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While studies show that there is a significantly less likely chance that someone infected with the Omicron variant will require hospitalization, Dr. Anthony Fauci during ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday communicated a concern about “overrun” hospitals.” While the symptoms with Omicron are “mild,” it does spread rather rapidly.
When it comes to the “one thing… we all agree upon,” according to Fauci, it’s how contagious Omicron is, something he chose to emphasize rather than how several studies from multiple countries show the variant is less severe and leads to fewer hospitalizations. Dr. Fauci tells @jonkarl that “we’ve got to be careful that we don’t get complacent” about battling omicron, even if data from other countries might show a lesser degree of severity.
“It might still lead to a lot of hospitalizations in the United States.” https://t.co/CxSdhhlI9G pic.twitter.com/l9PeENDnwL — This Week (@ThisWeekABC) December 26, 2021 Some of the relevant exchange was as follows: KARL: So in terms of Omicron, we know how wildly contagious it is, but what is your sense about how — what do we really know about how sick people are getting from this? As you know, there was data out of South Africa that suggested that it was less than 2 percent of those that were infected were hospitalized. That compared with about 20 percent that had been hospitalized under the Delta wave. That, by the way, is a country that doesn’t have, you know, anywhere near the kind of vaccination level that we have. And we saw some indications out of England too that it seems to be less severe.
What is — are you comfortable now in saying that Omicron is —
FAUCI: Yes.
KARL: — wildly contagious, but not as severe a disease?
FAUCI: Well, there’s one thing that’s for sure that we all agree […]
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