Covid-19: fewer hospitalizations with Omicron than with Delta

“IThere is an Omicron tidal wave coming, ”warned Boris Johnson, the British Prime Minister, on December 12th. The tidal wave is here: for the first time since the start of the pandemic, the United Kingdom recorded, Wednesday, December 22, more than 100,000 cases of coronavirus in 24 hours – a record in Europe -, including the majority due to the Omicron variant. These figures, the French public authorities expect to reach them as soon as possible. On December 22, the Minister of Health Olivier Véran warned that we would exceed “very likely 100,000 contaminations per day by the end of the month”, during an interview on BFMTV. We are undoubtedly following in the footsteps of our neighbors across the Channel: 84,272 new cases have been confirmed this m …