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The countries where Omicron surged early have seen a low number of deaths.
The death toll was low because of lower population age or high vaccination coverage.
Experts warn that the situation may be different in the US.
It has been over four weeks since Omicron started hitting.
In spite of the number of infections breaking all previous records, deaths in these three countries have remained lower than in previous waves.
Early data suggests that the situation might be different in the US.
Eric Topol, director of the Scripps Research Institute, said on Friday that the US Omicron wave is worse than what has been seen in the UK.
The US does not share many of the same factors with the three non-US countries with advanced Omicron waves.
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The charts show what is happening in each nation.
South Africa has a younger population.
The Omicron wave in South Africa likely peaked in December, but deaths were lower than in previous waves.
Paul Hunter, professor of medicine at the UK's University of East Anglia, told Insider that the country has a younger population than Europe.
Even though only 26% of people in South Africa have gotten two doses of vaccine, the overall mildness of this wave could be explained by the fact that COVID-19 has hit older people harder.
South Africa's population is thought to have had high levels of immunity from previous waves because of the poor availability of vaccines there.
The UK andDenmark have higher booster levels.
The death toll has remained low in the UK.
Hunter said that an increase in deaths in the last weeks could be due to delayed registration over the holiday period.
The low mortality could be traced to the booster shots.
In both countries, the number of people who have received two or more shots has been high.
The UK Health Security Agency found that protection from two shots against hospitalization from Omicron waned over the course of 24 weeks.
A third dose of vaccine brought the protection back up to 88%.
Hunter said that there is still uncertainty as to whether that trend will continue in other parts of Europe.
He said deaths among people over 60 tend to lag behind cases by a week since younger people are more likely to have seen the virus first.
The US has low booster rates.
In the US, deaths have not gone down.
The number of COVID-19 patients in the intensive care unit is rising steeply.
This isn't as bad as the record high of 28,900, which was set in the Pandemic.
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Scott Gottlieb, former director of the US Food and Drug Administration, said that hospitalizations and deaths seem to be more pervasive than elsewhere. He said that the "decoupling" of hospitalizations and deaths from case numbers was not as strong as the UK.
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