United States omicron surge will continue
https://covid19.healthdata.org/united-states-of-america/district-of-columbia?view=resource-use&tab=trend&resource=all_resources
https://www.publichealth.columbia.edu/public-health-now/news/jeffrey-shaman-where-pandemic-might-take-us-2022
New York hospitals
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/04/health/covid-omicron-hospitalizations.html
Incidental positives 50% to 65%
Dr. Rahul Sharma, emergency physician
We are seeing an increase in the number of hospitalizations
But the severity of the disease looks different from previous waves
We’re not sending as many patients to the I.C.U.,
we’re not intubating as many patients,
and actually, most of our patients that are coming to the emergency department that do test positive are actually being discharged
France, Omicron wave
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2022/jan/07/covid-news-live-bolsonaro-criticises-plans-to-vaccinate-young-children-as-brazil-cases-soar
Prof Alain Fischer
I think we are coming to the peak of this new wave
primarily towards the beginning of the second fortnight of January,
so if we work it out this would be in around 10 days’ time
Sir David Spiegelhalter, University of Cambridge
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-59902498
There’s still no sign of a serious increase in intensive care ventilation and deaths,
and we would have expected to see that by now
Hospitalisations in England, with good luck they won’t go above 3,000
This is down to the fact that people have voluntarily been very cautious about their behaviour
London has peaked 31st December
London hospital admission fall below 400 per day line
Flu numbers still low
Zoe study
https://covid.joinzoe.com/post/omicron-spread-slows-but-cases-hit-vulnerable-over-75s
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