A record number of Covid-19 cases driven by the Omicron variant is putting hospitals under increasing pressure in parts of the U.S. and Europe.
Omicron continues to appear milder than earlier coronavirus variants, scientists and doctors said, particularly in people who have been vaccinated or have suffered a previous infection. But its heightened transmissibility has pushed Covid-19 infections to unprecedented levels, resulting in large numbers of hospitalizations.
We really need to do something that is unique from the previous interventions
Omicron Cold: 'In about 15% of cases of the common cold, the cause is a coronavirus. The human coronaviruses HCoV-OC43/-HKU1/-229E/-NL63 continually circulate in the human pop in adults and children worldwide and produce the generally mild symptoms of the common cold.'
So good to know that after Trump’s Operation Warpspeed resulted in the vaccination, Biden’s plan was able to supply us with therapeutics, testing kits and prepared hospitals! He did that, right? No? Oh.
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