As it happened: South Korea’s deadly omicron experiment
Social affairsMar 31, 2022
“Never had so many people died from an infectious disease in one day,” Lee said. As the omicron wave overwhelms hospitals, people who would have lived under normal circumstances have been dying from a lack of or delay in access to care, he said. “This is what we call ‘excess’ deaths.” Statistics Korea noted in its March 14 report that since September last year, monthly deaths “have consistently...