BREAKING: Chris Whitty says 'records will be broken' as Omicron surges over Christmas
But Whitty said he wants to advise people to be very cautious about figures coming out of the country suggesting Omicron is leading to fewer people ending up in hospital.
‘If the peak of this is twice as great, then halving of the size of the hospitalisation rate, you still end up in the same place. And this peak is going very fast.’ But he said there was a danger this is being ‘over-interpreted’ to say Omicron ‘is not a problem and what are we worrying about?’.
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