As the omicron variant sweeps through South Africa, Dr. Unben Pillay is seeing dozens of sick patients a day. Yet he hasn’t had to send anyone to the hospital.
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And that includes older patients and those with health problems that can make them more vulnerable to becoming severely ill from a coronavirus infection, he said. — Just 3% of patients hospitalized recently with COVID-19 have died, versus about 20% in the country's earlier outbreaks. Pillay says his COVID-19 patients during the last delta wave "had trouble breathing and lower oxygen levels. Many needed hospitalization within days,” he said. The patients he’s treating now have milder, flu-like symptoms, such as body aches and a cough, he said.
“Omicron has driven the resurgence,” Phaahla said, citing studies that say 70% of the new cases nationwide are from omicron.
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