500,000 cases a day would be 12,500 new cases in hospitals at the South African Rate of 2.5% of Omicron cases going to the hospital

 12,500 new Omicron cases every day going to the hospital

 would be likely 

given 500,000 Omicron positives per day starting

about a week from now according to doctors on CNN.

One doctor mentioned that we have already hit 250,000 cases

in a single day here in the U.S. in the last week already.