Should I Cancel Holiday Travel? And More Omicron Questions, Answered
Posted on AllSides November 30th, 2021
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Just as we were all looking forward to the holiday season, hoping to put the Delta coronavirus wave behind us, the World Health Organization sounded a fresh alarm on Nov. 26 about the Omicron variant. Announced by South African scientists just two days before, the WHO designated Omicron as an official “variant of concern” because it seems to be spreading quickly and may possess mutations that could help evade vaccines or immunity from prior infections.
When Delta began to threaten the US in early June, it had already caused a devastating...