UK Covid cases are down almost 50% in two days from their peak. Hopefully they've seen top of this wave. So far no pressure on ICUs or deaths. Ontario doomcasters should note: @NathanStall @BogochIsaac 
South Africa's omicron wave is about 6 weeks old and waning almost as fast as it began. ICU occupancy, a lag statistic, has continued up but is NOWHERE near peaks of earlier waves. Numbers on right are weekly on same day.
on December 16, Ontario Science Table showed steeply increasing South African case data and warned that hospitalization increase accompanied it (implying admissions were for COVID, not with COVID).
Look at actual cases plotted at right (black). As so often, Science Table spoke out at absolute top of "market". No sooner had SciTable published than S African cases began to drop sharply.
although ICU occupancy has been SciTable's primary hospitalization metric, that's not what they showed in S Africa. Data issue when COVID widespread arises because of "with COVID" as opposed to "for COVID".
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