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Omicron hospitalisation risk is far below delta’s

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London | The omicron variant of COVID-19 may be less likely to land patients in the hospital than the delta strain, according to a trio of studies of preliminary data.

Researchers in Scotland suggest omicron is associated with a two-thirds reduction in the risk of hospitalisation when compared with the earlier variant, though omicron was 10 times more likely than delta to infect people who’d already had COVID-19.

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