Preliminary report from Imperial College doubts that Omicron is less severe, gets deleted

This post is maybe a little more meta than the usual meta, so please bear with me. This is about the evolving role of HCA as it becomes less about straight up mockery and more about making a difference.

I will link a [preliminary report](https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/mrc-gida/2021-12-16-COVID19-Report-49.pdf) from Imperial College which includes the concerning conclusion that "we find no evidence (for both risk of hospitalisation attendance and symptom status) of Omicron having different severity from Delta, though data on hospitalisations are still very limited."

Correct or incorrect, this question is rather important to everybody's life at the moment, am I right? But why am I posting this here on HCA? Because [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/rl45j7/omicron_infections_appear_no_less_severe_than/).

That's right, r/coronavirus mods deleted the Reuters article, calling it "clickbait" (even though the headline directly quotes the report) and calling the Imperial College report a "garbage study". Personally, I find Reuters to be generally credible and the Imperial College Faculty of Medicine impeccably credible. The polar opposite of "garbage" and "clickbait".

So how did we get to the point where we consistently see better information and better moderation on r/HermanCainAward than the subreddit whose stated purpose is to aggregate pandemic news?

What I'm saying is simply this: go HCA! This subreddit is becoming more important and more credible all the time. Let's just keep up this good work.