Right-wing Twitter v. reality re: Omicron
Right-wing Twitter:
Reality (from one of the states with the highest vaccination rates and rates of natural immunity in the country):
COVID deaths are up 60% in less than two weeks, almost to the Winter 2020-21 peak. Clearly Omicron is not more “mild” than Delta in any important sense. Child hospitalizations for COVID are also at record highs, strongly suggesting any reported mildness is just due to Omicron infecting those with prior SARS-CoV-2 spike protein exposure (which previous variants largely did not do, thus limiting their transmission).