ABC News: Omicron makes up 9 out of 10 new COVID cases in this South African region. This is life in the epicentre.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-12-19/inside-south-africas-omicron-epicentre/100696660 - https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-12-19/inside-south-africas-omicron-epicentre/100696660

THERE have been fewer deaths and hospitalisations from Omicron in South Africa than in previous Covid waves - despite surging cases.

Health chiefs have revealed the good news today amid a record number of new infections.

South Africa’s former Covid-19 tsar has also told  https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/south-africa-sees-fewer-hospitalisations-omicron-surges-say/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 114, 238); text-decoration: underline; - the Telegraph that there are reasons to be optimistic.

Professor Salim Abdool Karim said: “If you look at our current situation, we are showing lower severity across the full cascade.

"We are seeing fewer patients who are now symptomatic. We are seeing more asymptomatic cases.

“Of those who have symptoms, fewer of them require hospitalisations.

"Of those who’ve been hospitalised, fewer of them need oxygenation.

"Fewer of them need ICU care and fewer of them are dying."

Kinda blows the super immunity study theory on your other thread out of the water doesn't it?