Perhaps some good news from a paper out of Japan: https://twitter.com/SystemsVirology/status/14747596949717278...
"The 6th preprint from G2P-Japan - #Omicron is less infectious and pathogenic than #Delta and even an early pandemic SARS-CoV-2 in infected hamster model."
Note: less infectious here means intra-cell, it's still more transmissible than Delta.
Note: less infectious here means intra-cell, it's still more transmissible than Delta.
Another thread summarizing what this means: https://twitter.com/sailorrooscout/status/147509796693972172...