From: slider@anashram.com   
      
   LONDON, Dec 13 (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on   
   Monday the first patient had died after contracting the Omicron variant of   
   the coronavirus.   
      
   https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/first-uk-patient-has-died-omicr   
   n-variant-sky-2021-12-13/   
      
   ### - yak!   
      
   so it's not TOTALLY mild then??   
      
   one report today from africa however (which has had omicron the longest   
   coz it started there) suggesting that it's actually 10 times LESS lethal   
   than previous strains... this factor being somewhat offset, perhaps, by   
   dint of it being that much more infectious, thus more people catching it   
   still translating into many-many deaths from it, the percentage of   
   fatalities versus infections compared to previous strains currently   
   remaining unknown...   
      
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