The former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration said that there was no indication that the new Omicron variant of COVID causes more severe illness.
Dr Scott Gottlieb spoke with CBS’s Face the Nation on Sunday to discuss new developments of the variant which was first detected in South Africa in late November.
Despite being considered more transmissible, Gottlieb made an effort to ease fears surrounding Omicron based on the low number of hospitalizations of patients infected with the new variant.
‘There’s no indication that it causes more severe illness,’ he told network host Margaret Brennan. ‘What we’ve seen in South Africa in particular, is a decoupling between the cases and hospitalizations,’ meaning those infected are less likely to need professional medical treatment.
Gottlieb also added that the hospitalization rate was down 30 percent in South Africa relative to cases with more severe admissions linked to past waves down 80 percent.
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He also attributed low severity of the illness to the immunity level of populations in both the US and South Africa.
‘Probably around 80 percent of Americans and 90 percent of South Africans have some level of immunity, either from prior infection or through vaccination,’ he added.
‘So even though we’re still getting infected because this is spreading through immune evasion, it’s spreading by evading the immune- immunity that we’ve acquired.’