Morning Jolt: Omicron Is Spreading Like Wildfire — But Not Killing

On the menu today: The good news is that Omicron doesn't look deadly at all, but the bad news is that it looks super-contagious and will end up putting a lot of people in the hospital, which will pose its own set of risks to human life; Time picks a particularly un-woke figure to be the magazine's person of the year; and, go figure, it turns out that enforcing a vaccine mandate is a lot more difficult than the Biden administration first expected.

Omicron: An Explosion of New Cases . . . a Handful of Deaths?

A top headline in the New York Times this morning declares that, "Omicron Is a Dress Rehearsal for the Next Pandemic." I can't help but notice that we're not quite done with this pandemic. "The next pandemic"? What, did somebody spot someone sneezing outside another Chinese bioresearch lab?

Omicron is giving us a mixed bag of news. The best, and arguably most important, news is that so far, this variant has killed almost no one. I write "almost" because the United Kingdom reported its first confirmed death from Omicron yesterday ...

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WITH JIM GERAGHTY December 14 2021 WITH JIM GERAGHTY December 14 2021 Omicron Is Spreading Like Wildfire — But Not Killing On the menu today: The good news is that Omicron doesn't look deadly at all, but the bad news is that it looks super-contagious and will end up putting a lot of people in the hospital, which will pose its own set of risks to human life; Time picks a particularly un-woke figure to be the magazine's person of the year; and, go figure, it turns out that enforcing a vaccine mandate is a lot more difficult than the Biden administration first expected. Omicron: An Explosion of New Cases . . . a Handful of Deaths? A top headline in the New York Times this morning declares that, "Omicron Is a Dress Rehearsal for the Next Pandemic." I can't help but notice that we're not quite done with this pandemic. "The next pandemic"? What, did somebody spot someone sneezing outside another Chinese bioresearch lab? Omicron is giving us a mixed bag of news. The best, and arguably most important, news is that so far, this variant has killed almost no one. I write "almost" because the United Kingdom reported its first confirmed death from Omicron yesterday ...   READ MORE

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