Across the country, even before Omicron admissions have started to rise, the bed occupancy in our hospitals is 94%. Even in a normal winter, critical bed crises are a common problem, with operations cancelled and patient care often compromised as a result. This, however, is not shaping up to be a normal winter. The Omicron variant is spreading with a speed that is terrifying to me, even after all I have seen and done over the past months. Is this variant really, as we all hope, less virulent than its predecessors?

Source: The Guardian December 21, 2021 04:42 UTC