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By Dan Weil The risk of severe disease is 70% lower for Covid omicron sufferers than for sufferers of the delta strain, a study says. Some good news on the Covid omicron front: South Africans who catch that variant are 80% less likely to be hospitalized than other variants. That’s according to a study released by South Africa’s National Institute for Communicable Diseases. The risk of severe disease is 70% lower for omicron sufferers than for sufferers of the delta strain, the study said. It looked at omicron data from October and November and delta data for April through November. The study i…