More U.S. states report cases of the new variant.
Omicron continues to spread across the United States, and around the world, as scientists try to pin down how fast it spreads and how much of a threat it poses compared to other strains of the virus . As of Saturday morning, omicron cases had been, pretty much all of which were among people who had traveled to South Africa recently. None of the cases so far in the U.S.
have resulted in serious illness; and the World Health Organization has said that no omicron cases, which have been detectedWHO officials note that it will take weeks to know how infectious omicron really is and how effective the current crop of vaccines is against the new variant. Experts emphasize that vaccines will provide some protection against the variant, especially against the worse outcomes of infection, like hospitalization and death.
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