It is already 2 weeks for "Omicron" hogging the news. If it is as deadly as Delta, by now you should have heard a lot of death and not "number of infected". Even if there is a delay in death due to better care, hospitals in SA should have full of patients in ICU rooms with pictures showing rows and rows of patients on ventilations. Even if you use the arguments lots of them are vaccinated, there are stil many not vaccinated especially outside of 1st world categories. SA isn't exactly at western EU level. I think this isn't as severe as most healthcare professional have expected. I would speculate this would be nature's way to confer us with some immunity.