Omicron wave will crash on US with 60% of people infected by March and 140 MILLION new infections -

[Ms. Toad]

8. This is misleading because of people's math illiteracy

Omicron will cause more infections but lower hospital rates, analysis shows

Marginally lower hospitalization rates multiplied by dramatically higher number of infected people will result in a much larger number of people in the hospital. We are bursting at the seams now.

Globally, the analysis projected that the world will see 3 billion or more infections over the next three months, which is as many as the entire two years of the pandemic, said Dr. Chris Murray, director of the university's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation.

It is too early to have reliable numbers on hospitalization, but one estimate I've seen is 1/3 as many.

So - assuming that is correct (a ginormous assumption) - we would have the equivalent of 7.3 months' worth of hospitalizations a month. (The hospitalizations were not evenly spread over the 3 years, so it won't be quite as bad as that sounds - but we don't have spare capacity around here to absorb even a fraction of a month's extra hospitalizations.