What this omicron data does, is get added to overall covid numbers and dilutes the mortality rate. I could argue if as many people get omicron as the total number who got previous strains, the mortality rate will almost halve.
We are seeing the virus become less deadly but more transmissible and the total pool of confirmed cases grows fast while the number of deaths grows at a far slower rate. The mortality rate will decline over time.
Just wait and you’ll see. If govts want to keep this going they need to get the death rate up by manipulating the data.
To provide the medical professionals on here some help on analytics.
Mortality rate end of November here was 1%.
Cases have exploded in the last month with omicron, deaths have not.
Mortality rate now 0.7% in just 1 month of new data.
We had 535 hospitalisations before the omicron wave hit. Now we have 1,146 which is a 600+ increase.
The 600 increase in hospitalisations came from 170,000 confirmed cases which continues to go parabolic.
We have approx 63,000 beds of which 1,100 are allocated to covid patients (1.7%). As a comparison roughly 25% of hospital beds are allocated to cancer and dialysis patients yet nobody hears about that.
