BBCNEWS BBC News December 31, 2021 10:04:00
So, it's very transmissible, but very much milder disease, and we're seeing that by all the parameters. hospitalisation is much less, and in fact if you look at the severity of hospitalised individuals, it's about 73% less in terms of icu admission, high care admission and so on. we kind of always thought that these waves would come in sort of a cyclical pattern, and certainly the first and second wave obeyed that, each were about 75 days approximately in duration, with about a 100 day interval between them. and then along came the delta third wave in our country, and that was quite a bit long...