In Georgia, for instance, medical leaders in metro Atlanta said hospitals remain overwhelmed. But it’s still raging out of control in other parts of the country. The wave seems to have peaked in some areas where the Omicron variant first hit in the US, like Boston and New York. More than a quarter of the Covid-19 pandemic’s total cases in the United States have been reported in the past month, during the Omicron surge, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.Īs of Thursday, cases dropped at least 10% compared with last week in 14 states, but 26 states saw cases rise at least 10%, according to Johns Hopkins data. What to know about 'the highest level of protection' “Well, there were hints, but we did not expect it to happen exactly the way it did.” “None of us really anticipated Omicron,” Maldonado said. There are disease models and lessons from pandemics past, but the way the highly infectious Omicron variant popped up meant the scientists’ proverbial crystal ball got a little hazy. There was a general consensus among the experts about what happens next: “We really don’t know exactly,” Maldonado said. Yvonne Maldonado, an epidemiologist and infectious disease specialist at Stanford Medicine, and experts at federal agencies, academic colleagues and local public health leaders spent the holidays trying to figure out.
What the next part of the pandemic looks like and when it will get there are what Dr. Tom Frieden, who was director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention under President Obama and is now the CEO and president of Resolve to Save Lives. “I think if we do it right, we’re going to have a 2022 in which Covid doesn’t dominate our lives so much,” said Dr. The latest on the coronavirus pandemic and the Omicron variant
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