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In the good news bears category, Omicron cases — mostly caused by the BA.1 variant — continue to decline in most places around the country. We are seeing a fabulous fall in cases, hospitalizations, and need for ICU beds.
You don’t need to be a Junior Epidemiologist to see how much better things are this week — just look at any update and you’ll see beautiful downhill graphs in virtually every state.
Other good news is there’s still no other scary variants in the offing right now. That can of course change in an instant, but for the moment we’re not sensing a super scary threat from BA.2 (yet), deltacron, or anything new being found in wastewater or worldwide testing.
However, we do have to keep an eye on European countries that are often ahead of us and so serve as “canaries in the coal mine.” This week some had an uptick in numbers and we need to watch and see: is this just the…
