OMICRON UK: Patients in hospital reaches levels not seen since mid Feb: more than doubling from 20 Dec to 11 Jan.
In fact, when you look at the rate of growth: Omicron surged much faster: compared to to 2020 (Alpha). Here we can see Oct 2020: around the same amount of in patients as Dec 2021: 7,852...close enough to compare.
It took till Dec 19, 2020, to hit the 19K+ plus mark: a two month period.

Omicron climbed the same amount in just 3 weeks. More than twice as fast as Alpha:
The question is: is this due to omicron being more infectious, more severe or both?

We should also remember that a 'mockdown' helped slow the spread to some degree in Nov 2020.

Even so: omicron has surged extremely quickly: just like in South Africa.
We should also bear in mind that we did not have vaccines in 2020: so if they have slowed the spread at all, or limited severity (still a big question in my mind with omicron) can you imagine?
It's also worth bearing in mind that the Gov is threatening NHS staff for declaring 'critical incidents' and they are under pressure to essentially cover the true scale of the outbreak.
Given this: we could reasonably assume that we just like the US: we have more in hospital now than during the last peaks.

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msn.com/en-au/news/wor…
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5-6% with Delta...to now 4.5%?? wow, a 0.5% reduction....apparently....
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