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conuly‘We've Never Seen This Before in NYC': COVID Positivity Rate Doubles in 3 Days on Omicron Spread
NYC offers 500,000 free rapid Covid tests, 1 million masks amid case surge (One million masks sounds like a lot until you remember that the population of NYC is over eight million....)
As COVID-19 cases climb in NYC, so do classroom closures
Several NYC Restaurants Temporarily Close Due to COVID Spike
Records fall and borders close as world races to get control of Omicron
The Omicron variant advances at an incredible rate
Omicron infects 70 times faster than previous COVID strains: study (Though it appears to be less severe - at least in the short term, nobody *knows* the long term effects of this variation yet - the gains there could be wiped out with greater transmission, especially as greater transmission = more cases = more chances for mutations = greater odds of a future mutation that evades the vaccine. We have got to take the issue of immunizing all those other, poorer countries seriously. I'm not saying don't get your booster, but it's more important to get a first shot in more arms over there than a third shot in people's arms over here.)
NYC offers 500,000 free rapid Covid tests, 1 million masks amid case surge (One million masks sounds like a lot until you remember that the population of NYC is over eight million....)
As COVID-19 cases climb in NYC, so do classroom closures
Several NYC Restaurants Temporarily Close Due to COVID Spike
Records fall and borders close as world races to get control of Omicron
The Omicron variant advances at an incredible rate
Omicron infects 70 times faster than previous COVID strains: study (Though it appears to be less severe - at least in the short term, nobody *knows* the long term effects of this variation yet - the gains there could be wiped out with greater transmission, especially as greater transmission = more cases = more chances for mutations = greater odds of a future mutation that evades the vaccine. We have got to take the issue of immunizing all those other, poorer countries seriously. I'm not saying don't get your booster, but it's more important to get a first shot in more arms over there than a third shot in people's arms over here.)
