An interesting take. You can see the huge gap between infection rates and deaths yourself by just googling "South Africa Coronavirus" and switching between the infection/death plots.<p>That being said, there is definitely a lag between infection/death (which I think media outlets are being cautious in making such a dramatic take yet, for instance see this CNBC article: <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/09/south-africa-omicron-crisis-cases-hospitalizations-and-vaccinations.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/09/south-africa-omicron-crisis-...</a>), so we'll see if this holds up.
As sam-2727 says, this would be the dream scenario - the Unicorn that will lead us back to normal. My hope is that Covid would become cold/flu like and anything suggesting this is VERY good news. Particularly if it remains responsive to vaccines, letting them be a backup re: hospitalization.
What the tweet and graph misses is the fact that the NICD systems have a delay in reporting due to some recent IT changes for data security. <a href="https://twitter.com/nicd_sa/status/1469405508679483395" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/nicd_sa/status/1469405508679483395</a>