All good points. More viewpoints to round things out.
From the NYT, Four Big Questions about Omicron by David Leonhardt:
"Severe Covid illness often takes a week or more to develop, and the world has been aware of Omicron for less than two weeks. “We may just not have had enough time to see severe disease develop,” Dr. Aaron Richterman of the University of Pennsylvania said. The initial studies of Omicron patients have also come disproportionately from South Africa, where the population skews young, and many people were previously infected with Delta. Both groups are unlikely to get very sick."
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