'If COVID history has taught us anything, we should be looking to the UK and Europe as a signal of what to expect locally,” said Bronwyn MacInnis, of the Broad Institute. 'We're typically about two or three weeks behind.”
The commonwealth's COVID levels are way down since the omicron surge, but epidemiologists say a rise in Europe is worrisome. COVID cases spike in parts of Europe
“If COVID history has taught us anything, we should be looking to the UK and Europe as a signal of what to expect locally,” said Bronwyn MacInnis, director of pathogen genomic surveillance at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. . However, in Massachusetts, modeling from MacInnis’s team suggests that, as of March 17, more than half of the cases in the state are from the BA.2 subvariant“I think the next few weeks will be critical,” she said. “We're typically about two or three weeks behind [spikes in Europe].”
“I threw my crystal ball out the window with omicron," she said."So I really hesitate to predict much at this point.”
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