27 Dec 2021

“The lower hospitalization rate is likely due to two things: greater immunity among the public from vaccines and prior coronavirus infection, and that omicron might be slightly less severe than delta. Vaccines don't stop infections with omicron, but they do reduce the risk of hospitalization by about 70% - with a booster shot, that figure is even higher. If you're a person who has no immunity at all, no vaccination and no prior infection or your prior infection was a year and a half ago and it was mild, you're not out of the woods. There is a reasonable chance that you will get very sick with omicron.”

www.npr.org/2021/12/27/1068303629/covi...
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Robert Wachter

   Chairperson

Chair of the Department of Medicine at University of California, San Francisco

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Covid-19 - The new variant Omicron

Covid-19 - The new variant Omicron and vaccines protection

Omicron variant and it's effect on vaccinated people