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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It looks like they walked that claim back in a later revision to the paper: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.01.11.22269045v3.full-text They clearly still believe the Omicron variant is inherently less virulent, but they acknowledge the limitations of their data.[/quote] Thanks for the link to the updated paper. As you note, they continue to find that hospitalizations, ICU, and death totals were substantially lower for Omicron than Delta.[/quote] It's not entirely unsurprising. We put evolutionary pressure on the virus to develop a more contagious but less virulent strain. The mitigation procedures enacted would favor a more contagious virus, and with less virulence we stopped adding mitigations.[/quote]
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