Scientific adviser to the UK government, professor of medicine John Bell said that fewer and fewer patients who are hospitalized with coronavirus need high-flow oxygen in the country. At the same time, the average length of stay in a medical facility for patients was reduced to three days.
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He said that while hospitalizations have increased in recent weeks as the Omicron spread among the population, the disease “appears to be less severe and many people spend relatively short periods in hospital.”
The professor said that the times of high mortality due to coronavirus infection in the country are already in the past, and Omicron is “not the disease that the world saw a year ago.”
“The horrific scenes we saw a year ago in overcrowded intensive care units, when many people died prematurely, are now, in my opinion, just history,” Bell said.
During several waves of coronavirus, including waves of Delta and Omicron strains, a British government adviser noted that “the number of severe cases and deaths from the disease have not changed significantly” since most of the country’s inhabitants passed vaccination against COVID.
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