Omicron Once Again On The Upsurge.

May 6, 2022 Glen Turpening

The Omicron variants continue to multiply and and steadily spreading in the general population once again. (New York Times)

When the coronavirus was in retreat across the United States in late February, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued new recommendations that veered away from depending on the number of new cases in a community to determine the need for pandemic safety measures. The focus shifted more toward the number of hospitalized people with the virus. Far more new cases than before would be required to push a community into the medium or high-risk categories. The change turned most of the U.S. map green at a stroke. Until then, 95 percent of counties in the United States were considered high-risk, but afterward, fewer than one-third of Americans were living in places in that category, the agency said. The new guidelines gave millions of people confidence to remove their face masks, and recommended that as long as the pressure on hospitals remained manageable, the country could return to some version of normal life.

By Adeel Hassan and Sharon Otterman, writing for 'The New York Times'

Covid-19 continues to stealthily travel around the Globe with little signs of abating. The population of the World, however, has moved on and is completely tired of the pandemic and the restrictions that go with it. The virus will continue to mutate and create more variants that could completely bypass the current vaccines that are used to fight the disease. The public wants to get on with their lives but the Coronavirus is not interested in packing up and leaving anytime soon. Doctors and health professionals hope that the new variants continue to cause mild infections but we could soon run out of luck in this regard.