The study indicates that Omicron is less severe than the Delta variant and that two of the Covid vaccines offer good protection

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Experts at Discovery Health, South Africa’s largest private health insurer, who collected the data, said that while there were high numbers of sudden injuries in vaccinated people, the cases appeared to be less serious, which they said was also backed by stories. Evidence from doctors on the ground.

Speaking at a Tuesday morning news briefing, Discovery Health CEO Ryan Nawash said: “You can see very clearly that this way adults have a 29 percent lower risk of admission.

“If you look at the proportion of patients admitted to high-care ICU due to severe illness, across the first three waves, the proportion of patients in high-care and ICU collectively is over 30 percent, and up to 35 percent, while you can see In this omicron period, only about 13 percent.

So the data is linked to anecdotal comments. And so we think this is the early stage of having hope that the intensity will be less.

“What is clear is that vaccinated individuals generally have milder infections. We hear that it is the unvaccinated who need admission and oxygen to the hospital in the first place.”

“You can see that the natural excess mortality is still much lower than in previous waves, despite the rapid growth in the number of infections during this omicron period.”

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