Today, King County saw more than 8,000 new cases of mostly Omicron, this is 3-1/2 times the peak of Delta, yet, only 51 people are hospitalized, only 17 on ventilators, and only three deaths attributed to this wave. We don't know what percentage of these deaths are trailing Delta cases, but 3 out of 8000 puts the death rate at .036%, the annual flu is 3x more deadly than this. Still early though and still ramping up and there is always a delay between sickness and death so the final rate remains to be seen. In South Africa where the Omicron peak has passed, the death rate was around .046%, still less than half the flu. None the less, with only 51 out of 8000 hospitalized, where Delta involved almost 46% hospitalized, Omicron isn't looking like the end of the world except for big pharma profits, but they'll no doubt be able to collect on treatments for cancer, auto-immune, and heart and lung diseases that their death shots introduced for years.