U.S. faces pandemic crossroads with Covid deaths still too high and new omicron variants emerging, Fauci says

White House chief medical advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci on Thursday said the U.S. is at a crossroads in the Covid-19 pandemic as new omicron subvariants are gaining ground across the country.

Fauci, in a radio interview Thursday, said the pandemic has clearly eased since last winter, but deaths, which average more than 2,600 per week, remain far too high. At the same time, the new omicron variants are knocking out key tools used to protect the most vulnerable.

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A COVID wave of BQ infections that started in New York has already reached California. It’s about to engulf the rest of the nation, experts say California is now an “emerging hotspot” for the family of variants, known to be the most immune evasive and transmissible yet, according to experts. YahooFinance

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Let’s Declare a Pandemic Amnesty We need to forgive one another for what we did and said when we were in the dark about COVID. Emily Oster The Atlantic

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