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Up to severe pneumonia: How mild is a mild course of the omicron really? That’s what doctors say – knowledge

Omicron is commonly considered a mild variant of the coronavirus. Several studies attest that the variant has a milder course of the disease than Delta. But “mild is something else…”, tweeted Christian Karagiannidis, scientific head of the DIVI intensive care register and head of the ECMO center of the Cologne-Merheim Lung Clinic, last Friday. What happened?

In his tweet, Karagiannidis refers to the rapidly increasing number of hospitalizations in the USA. There – where the omicron variant has been predominant since Christmas – new highs in corona-related hospital admissions are currently being measured. The US clinics currently have more than 150,000 corona patients.

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