Lots of misinformation now being floated that #Omicron is “mild”. That’s nonsense — based on out-of-context quote. Don’t fall for it — nobody know that much yet. And hospitalizations are still rising in the hardest hit #B11529 dominant provinces in South Africa twitter.com/BNODesk/status…
Narratives around the variant potentially being more transmissible/more able to escape *but* milder shared today may be based on a quote taken out of context. Hopium spreads fast, but we need to wait for the data- In the meantime we need to make plans based on potential threat. twitter.com/BNODesk/status…
Update: Die Sequenzierung hat das Ergebnis bestätigt - bei dem gestern Morgen bekanntgegebenen Verdachtsfall handelt es sich um die #Omicron-Variante. @CiesekSandra twitter.com/StM_Klose/stat…