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Omicron generally caused less severe disease than previous variants, but hospitalizations and deaths shot up given the sheer numbers of infected people. The giant wave ebbed by mid-April.
According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, nearly 7.9 million children have tested positive for COVID, with over 325,000 cases for the week ending Dec. 30., a 64% increase from the week prior.
People age 65 and older are the most vulnerable to any form of the Covid virus. Yet, only 37.5% of that age group has received the updated omicron booster , according to the most recent CDC data .
The first death of a person with Omicron was reported in Germany on 23 December [86] and in Australia on 27 December. [87] By Christmas 2021, the Omicron Strain became dominant in the US. [88] On 3 January 2022, South Korea reported the first two deaths of people who tested positive post mortem for Omicron. [89]
Global excess and reported COVID-19 deaths and death rates per 100,000 population according to the WHO study [12] A December 2022 WHO study comprehensively estimated excess deaths from the pandemic during 2020 and 2021, concluding ~14.8 million excess early deaths occurred, reaffirming their prior calculations from May as well as updating them ...
Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/GettyThe Omicron variant of SARS CoV2 has quickly upended at least three facts we thought we had established about t he COVID-19 pandemic ...
On January 12, 2022, when the death toll had already reached 842,000, a CDC ensemble forecast predicted that 62,000 people would die over the next four weeks. [ 136 ] At the start of January 2023, when the US death toll had accumulated to over 1,120,000, the IHME projected that the death toll would reach 1,130,000 by April 1.
The Omicron variant of the coronavirus has now been reported in at least 19 countries around the world, including the 77 cases found in South Africa and 19 cases in Botswana.. Scientists and other ...