Omicron lands in the United States

The California and San Francisco Departments of Public Health confirmed the infection on Wednesday in a traveller who returned from South Africa on November 22.

White House COVID-⁠19 Response Coordinator Jeff Zients called for calm following the confirmation of the first Omicron case in the US. “The President will have more to say about our strategy for fighting COVID this winter tomorrow, but for now, we know that: This new variant is cause for continued vigilance, not panic,” he said.

With unvaxed amounting to 40 % in Trump's heartland, tens of thousands of cases to come flooding hospitals...then lockdowns to follow simply hospitals can't cope.Then these same unvaxed nuts protests against lockdowns..

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