Only weeks ago, many Americans pictured safe, fully vaccinated or boosted holiday gatherings with family and friends. Now with the arrival of the Omicron variant, many people may be questioning the safety of gathering even with those who are fully vaccinated against COVID, but haven’t yet received a booster shot.
“We’ve seen cases of Omicron among those who are both vaccinated and boosted and we believe these cases are milder or asymptomatic because of vaccine protection,” said Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, during Friday’s White House COVID-19 briefing. So ... to gather or not to gather? Yahoo News Medical Contributor Dr. Lucy McBride provides some guidance into the holiday season this year as Omicron is expected to become the dominant strain in the U.S. in the coming weeks.Yahoo News: For starters, how does Omicron affect the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines?It looks like Omicron is a highly contagious variant of SARS-CoV-2.
Don’t need their guidance👍. They’ve done enough lying.
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