Dr. Robin’s Covid-19 Updates

Omicron Is Waning and Life Is About to Get A Whole Lot Easier

(at least for a few months)

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I’m a Boston-based cancer doctor and I’ve been writing weekly fact-based-no-blame-no-rumors-all-science-all-the-time essays about Covid-19 since March 2020.

You can read my views on what to do if you get Covid here — or about kids and Omicron here — or you can read about vaccines/anti-vaxxers throughout history here

Omicron is winding down. In Massachusetts, the poop-ometer is showing wastewater levels back to normal. Cases are down, hospitalizations are down, and although deaths keep happening, they are on the way down as well.

So we are moving out of the Omicron woods. And — fantastically — there are currently no ominous variants peeking through the trees.

As hard as we look, we are not seeing any new variants right now.

Back at the start of the pandemic, America was not adept at detecting variants which takes special testing, technicians, infrastructure — we weren’t well set up for it.

Now we’ve gotten better, although not nearly as good as some other countries like South Africa, Denmark, etc.