africa doctors caution that south africa s experience is unique it s summer well and the population is younger, but in london, south africa s experience is having a sequel here cases spiked from omicron, but in the past few days have started to drop. hospitals have been overwhelmed, but that s more because of too few staff rather than too many covid patients doctors and nurses have had to call in sick after testing positive in fact, hospitalizations in london have increased only gradually compared to last year even as covid cases speaked and two key statistics that speak to the severity of the disease, the number of patients on ventilators and deaths have barely risen. there s no guarantee the u.s. follows the same path especially since a greater percentage of the population are vaccinated in the uk when it comes to