SARS-CoV-2 Omicron Variant is as Deadly as Previous Waves

Researchers studies 130, 000 records of individuals who were hospitalised or who died in the US. Then they studied the association between omicron strain and the deaths/hospitalisations after adjusting for the effects of vaccination but not treatment. The evidence is intuitive: omicron is as deadly as previous waves. What seems to happen is vaccines blunt the impact. This is a preprint