Omicron infections are associated with a 91% reduction in risk of death compared to the Delta variant, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said on Wednesday (Jan. 12), citing a new Kaiser Permanente Southern California study that looked at 52,297 Omicron cases and 16,982 Delta cases in California between November 30 and January 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The study, which is yet to be peer reviewed, also showed that Omicron infections were also associated with a 74% reduction in risk of going to the ICU, as well as a 53% reduction in risk of being hospitalized, Walensky said. No patients with Omicron required mechanical ventilation.
Additionally, those with Omicron had a shorter duration in hospital stay compared to Delta patients: \u201cThe duration of hospital stays was approximately 70% shorter, with the median of stays being 1.5 days for Omicron, compared to about five days for Delta,\u201d Walensky said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cLooking at all hospital admissions for Omicron, 90% of patients were expected to be discharged from the hospital in three days or less,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2b07\ufe0f53% less risk of symptomatic hospitalization
\u2b07\ufe0f74% less risk of ICU admission
\u2b07\ufe0f91% less risk of death
0\ufe0f\u20e3Omicron patients required mechanical ventilation<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The study was done with CDC collaboration and funding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Omicron infections are associated with a 91% reduction in risk of death compared to the Delta variant, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said on Wednesday (Jan. 12), citing a new Kaiser Permanente Southern California study that looked at 52,297 Omicron cases and 16,982 Delta cases in California between November 30 and January 1. The study, which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50027,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}