This is a reader requested topic! Let’s talk about Delta and Omicron. Specifically, which one was worse? This is actually a very good example of the difference between thinking medically and thinking about public health. It unpacks very neatly. It was more dangerous for any individual person to be infected with Delta than to be infected with Omicron. Delta infections are more likely to cause severe complications. They were more likely to hospitalize you and they were more likely to kill you. So as an individual person, if you had to choose between the two, the infection you wanted was omicron. That's the individual medical perspective.
Oh, this is useful. (Not requested by me, or anything, but very useful.)