A lot of it depends on this one factor.
and booster rates, natural immunity, and more mild illness) mitigating the severe impacts of that spread on the other hand. Local prevalence of the virus “was the old measure,” Scott Gottlieb, M.D., former commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, toldon Sunday. “In the age of omicron, with a much more contagious variant and with the fact that the population has a lot of immunity so we're less susceptible overall, we may need to rethink that.
Looking ahead, if we see hospitalizations continue to fall and deaths follow suit, for instance, does it make sense keep restrictions in place based on the fact that local prevalence remains high per the CDC classification? Or should we allow for a higher level of community transmission as long as other indicators look good? “We may need to decide that once we get to 20 cases per 100,000 per day that may be the point at which we start to withdraw these [restrictive measures],” Dr.
Whether more local governments follow suit remains to be seen. Freeman, the NACCHO CEO, said that local and federal public health employees will be meeting in the coming months to talk about the transitional phase of
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