Current Events > Is Omicron less dangerous than regular Covid?

(+) Yeah! (+)

Or more so?

It seems to be less deadly overall, but the symptoms can still knock you on your ass. But people are already so far past the point of "I want covid to be over already" that they just treat it like it's not a problem at all.

Depends on what you mean by regular. If you mean Delta, then the answer is just yes. If you mean like the original strain, probably not. Any significant difference there is likely to be from Omicron facing a non-naive population so it takes less time for your immune system to get things working against it.

Maybe if youre vaccinated but its still deadly for unvaccinated. Hospitalizations and deaths are lower only because a lot of people are vaccinated and boosted. I know a few nurses and the hospitals are overloaded with primarily unvaccinated people.