Omicron: Current State of Science

I briefly go over where we stand with Omicron

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As I detail in an article I published elsewhere, Omicron is an unfortunate new reality of the pandemic. However, there are reasons to be optimistic. Despite the new variant being highly infectious, existing COVID measures have helped as the death rate is quite a bit lower than last year. While the variant can more easily affect…