# The Omicron Variant

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-omicron-variant/955134>\
**Category:** The Quarantine Zone\
**Tags:** covid-quarantine\
**Created:** [November 29, 2021, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-omicron-variant/955134 "2021-11-29T13:54:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2021, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-omicron-variant/955134/115 "2021-12-19T16:58:26Z")

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Due to a thread hijack in the Breaking News thread, I’m moving some posts from there to this thread. The thread that started the hijack is this one:

> [@Coronavirus COVID-19 (2019-nCoV) Thread - 2021 Breaking News](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2021-breaking-news/929428/3329):
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> A report from South Africa yesterday: The hospitals have 7,915 Covid-19 patients of which 6.7% are in intensive care units, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases said in a report on Saturday. Of the 532 people in ICU, 209 are on ventilators, the institute said. The number of people in hospital due to Covid-19 is, so far, a fraction of the total at the height of earlier infection waves. Covid-19 inpatients peaked at nearly 20,000 in January and July, the peaks of the country’s s…

That post is also Breaking News, so I’m leaving it in the original thread.

Some posts following @GreenWyvern 's are moved from Breaking News.

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