The U.S. is heading into its second Christmas and New Year's with Covid-19 cases on the rise again, but armed this year with available vaccines and boosters.
While the booster push from the White House and CDC does appear to be motivating some Americans to get the shots, many appear to either be opposed to or unaware of the updated recommendations.shows that half of vaccinated adults who have not yet received a booster dose say the news of omicron makes them more likely to get one. The new variant doesn't appear to be persuading unvaccinated Americans, however.
Omicron is thought to have emerged from an HIV patient in South Africa where just 26% of the population is fully vaccinated, scientists have said. Omicron, which was first detected in southern Africa last month, has proven to be extremely transmissible, yet much remains unknown about the severity of the illness it causes. Despite some signs that hospitalization rates from omicron may be lower than those from the delta variant, it's too early to draw any conclusions about omicron's severity, Maria Van Kerkhove, the WHO's Covid-19 technical lead, said at the Wednesday briefing.
The omicron Covid-19 variant has quickly overtaken delta as the dominant strain of the virus across the U.S., accounting for 90% of the cases in some parts of the country, CDC director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said Wednesday. Earlier this week, Texas reported what appears to be the first omicron fatality in the U.S. in an unvaccinated man in Houston.
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