Omicron New Reports On Severity of Disease in Unvaccinated, Vaccinated, and Previously Infected

Omicron is spreading at a tremendously fast pace. This new COVID-19 variant is more than likely to become the globally dominant variant sooner rather than later. Many questions remain though, one of which is whether this variant causes more severe disease. Here we discuss two new studies that looked at severity of disease in those with Omicron who are unvaccinated, vaccinated, or previously infected.
*Apologies, the video is a touch noisy as we are on holiday without our usual set up, but wanted to get this information out to you all in a timely manner!

Check out our previous video on Omicron linked below!
Omicron The New COVID-19 Variant: Everything You Should Know And More
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSinJnASWKo

The first study out of Scotland found that those infected with Omicron had a 2/3 decrease in hospitalization rate. They also found 10x higher reinfection rate with Omicron. Lastly, they found the booster led to a 57% decrease in symptomatic Omicron infections compared to those with 2 doses of a vaccine. All of this though is preliminary data based on low numbers of patients.
https://www.research.ed.ac.uk/en/publications/severity-of-omicron-variant-of-concern-and-vaccine-effectiveness-

The second study our of the Imperial College of London found a 20-25% reduction in hospital visits in those with Omicron and a 40-45% reduction in hospital admissions lasting longer than 1 day with Omicron. Previous infection reduced any hospital admission by 50%.
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/mrc-global-infectious-disease-analysis/covid-19/report-50-severity-omicron/

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