Omicron is driving the daily American death toll higher than during last fall’s delta wave, with deaths likely to keep rising for days or even weeks.
Omicron, the highly contagious coronavirus variant sweeping across the country, is driving the daily American death toll higher than during last fall’s delta wave, with deaths likely to keep rising for days or even weeks.
“Omicron will push us over a million deaths,” said Andrew Noymer, a public health professor at the University of California, Irvine. “That will cause a lot of soul searching. There will be a lot of discussion about what we could have done differently, how many of the deaths were preventable.” [Don't miss] It’s National Croissant Day this weekend, so here are 6 indulgent croissants from Chicago bakeries“Importantly, ‘milder’ does not mean ‘mild,’” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said this week during a White House briefing.
“He just wasn’t sure it was the right thing to do — yet,” said Todd Culotta, who got his shots during the summer. Dr. Katie Dennis, a pathologist who does autopsies for the health system, said the morgue has been at or above capacity almost every day in January, “which is definitely unusual.”During the coming week, almost every U.S.
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