“We’ll have to wait and see”
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Got a link?
https://globalnews.ca/news/8636502/covid-omicron-death-south-korea-data/
Omicron variant’s severity and death rates averaged 0.38% and 0.18%, respectively, compared with 1.4% and 0.7% for the Delta cases.
Just to add those death rates are heavily skewed by deaths over 65.
The death rate under 40 is basically zero.
So people in South Korea are still getting sick and dying from the virus. A lower rate is good, for sure, but if the number of cases overall is going up enough you still have the same load on the healthcare system. Your article doesn't say how much the case count has increased, just that records are being broken: "The Omicron variant has led to a surge in cases — daily new infections topped a record 100,000 last week"
We're coming off a peak load on the system here in Canada and that's good. Restrictions are coming off but we're still in territory that is concerning. https://covid-19.ontario.ca/data
People have always gotten sick and died.
Are you insane? Eliminating death is impossible.
You're completely lost. Hospitals are always full especially during flu season. None of this is new it's been happening for decades.
Do not, under any circumstances, go to this page and read about recent excess global mortality. https://ourworldindata.org/excess-mortality-covid
Do not fiddle with the graph to see how many extra people have died in Canada and the US since January 5 2020. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/excess-mortality-p-scores-projected-baseline?country=CAN~USA