The Data Shows Omicron is Milder. How Should That Affect Your Behavior? – The New York Times

The details of the Omicron variant are becoming clearer, and they are encouraging.

They re not entirely encouraging, and I will get into some detail about one of the biggest problems the stress on hospitals, which are facing huge numbers of moderately ill Covid-19 patients. But regular readers of this newsletter know that I try to avoid the bad-news bias that often infects journalism. (We journalists tend to be comfortable delivering bad news straight up but uncomfortable reporting good news without extensive caveats.)

So I want to be clear: The latest evidence about Covid is largely positive. A few weeks ago, many experts and journalists were warning that the initial evidence from South Africa suggesting that Omicron was milder than other variants might turn out to be a mirage. It has turned out to be real.

In hospitals around the country, doctors are taking notice, my colleagues Emily Anthes and Azeen Ghorayshi write. This wave of Covid seems different from the last one.

via www.nytimes.com

Well good. We can all get the milder scariant.