England chief medical officer Chris Whitty
England chief medical officer Whitty on the omicron virus says:
- Covid cases a record that will be broken a lot in the next few weeks
- Hospitalization rates are beginning to increase in some places, especially London
- Wants to urge caution about reports of drops and hop hospitalizations in South Africa
- There is going to be a problem with omicron hospitalizations, size to be determined
- We do not have a clear data on the key questions about omicron including hospitalization rates
- Omicron is a really serious threat; all the things that we do not know about our bad
- We do have some things going for us this time such as vaccines rollout
- There will be substantial numbers of omicron patients going into hospital
