With Covid-19 hospitalizations rising as the holiday season gets into full swing, experts are urging people to take precautionary measures against a new variant that may quickly sweep the nation
While the Delta variant is still a worrying presence, there could be millions of more Americans infected within weeks due to the high transmissibility of the Omicron variant, said Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota.
" People wait in line to receive a Covid-19 test at a mobile testing site in Manhattan on December 8, 2021.Vaccines still the best way to fight Covid-19, officials sayEven with the potential spread of the Omicron variant, former Obama White House health policy adviser Dr. Zeke Emanuel said that the US has tools to fight Covid-19 unlike during its onset."In March 2020, we didn't understand a lot about coronavirus. Second of all, we have vaccines now.
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