12/5/2023 0 Comments New york lockdown december 2021![]() It was a mistake we can’t afford to repeat. ![]() The COVID lockdowns over the past 18 months led to countless businesses closing, supply-chains jamming, kids (needlessly) falling behind in school, social lives wrecked, suicides rising. Meanwhile, the world should know by now the severe cost - both economically and in terms of public health - of imposing broad-based lockdowns and tough restrictions. The head of the National Institutes of Health has said that the current COVID-19 vaccines should be enough to battle the new Omicron but it is still too early to be definitive. Other drug makers are hopeful they can tweak their own boosters within months. In Botswana, where the new variant is thought to have originated, 16 of 19 confirmed cases (84 percent) were asymptomatic.Īnd in Israel, officials say a Pfizer booster provides up to 90 percent protection against severe illness from Omicron. On Tuesday, a World Health Organization official said Omicron cases so far have been “mild,” and there’s no evidence vaccines won’t be effective against serious illness from the new strain.ĭoctors in South Africa, which has seen a rise in Omicron infections, say patients there show milder symptoms than from previous strains. Which means this is no time for drastic new restrictions, particularly like those imposed at the height of the pandemic. Yet there are also signs it may not be as harmful as some feared. Omicron is spreading: Officials confirmed the first case in the United States on Wednesday. Kathy Hochul (D) on Friday declared a state of emergency aimed at increasing hospital capacity and addressing medical staffing shortages as the nation braces for the new omicron variant of the coronavirus. NY sees highest COVID death surge in nearly a year, data analysis reveals Nov 27, 2021, 02:40 AM EST Updated New York Gov. ![]() ![]() Omicron subvariant XBB.1.5 possibly more likely to infect the vaccinated: officials New COVID variant Arcturus may be 1.2 times more infectious than Kraken strain New COVID-19 strain Arcturus may cause pink eye ![]()
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