Stayin' Alive

Increasing vaccinations and regular booster shots are enabling us to weather infection by Omicron without dying. This is our new normal?

Covid-19 infections in the United States continue to soar to new daily records. And while deaths from Covid continue to fall, more people are requiring hospitalization and intensive care, continuing to support the case that Omicron’s apparently lower lethality is due as much to higher vaccination levels as to the new strain’s reduced virulence.

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