The NHS could still be under huge pressure despite the possibility that the Omicron variant may cause milder disease, a leading UK scientist has said.
Professor Paul Elliott, public health medicine expert at Imperial College, London, warned “there are many many cases and sadly some of those people may get severe illness and end up in hospital.”Professor Elliott described it as “encouraging news” that perhaps the infection when you get it might be less severe in terms of hospital cases, but he added: “Of course, with this very rapid rise and increase in cases – and we have seen the national cases go above 100,000 – then more cases means more pressure on the health service. “Even though a smaller proportion (of people) might get severe