[nostromo]

This image really puts it in context: https://images.app.goo.gl/13amCWF8aJ8q2eZAA

The red portion of the graph on the far right is the new variant.

[tigershark]

It started from an extremely low base. And extrapolating that curve is completely wrong as you can see from today numbers. 2.8k compared to yesterday 2.4K. It’s obviously still early to know anything conclusive but the relatively small increase today is a very good sign. We’ll know something more next week.

[dillondoyle]

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/extrapolating.png

[sharken]

To further put things into perspective, here the daily number of infections have gone from a few hundred up to 5.000.

And this was before Omicron was known.