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Thank you, so omicron still sends half as many patients to the ICU as precious strains however its way more infectious sending overall more into hospitals

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Here's the data from that study on that. Much lower percentage admitted with Omicron but more than double the patients

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association between S gene target failure (SGTF) infection, compared to non-SGTF infection, and hospitalisation, South Africa, 1 October – 30 November 2021

Hospital admission n/N (%)

SGTF (Omicron) 256/10,547 (2%)
Non-SGTF (non-Omicron) 121/948 (13%)

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https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021....1.full.pdf