Monday, December 20, 2021

Merry Sickmas Ho Ho Ho

With the eradication of Covid-19 off the table, …

In the United States, so-called breakthrough cases — infections among the vaccinated —…are fast becoming the status quo.

The highly contagious Omicron stands to make the notion of a surprise breakthrough infection “completely irrelevant”. …

Every wave of the pandemic has posed its challenges, but Omicron offers the vaccinated a preview of one of the more frustrating aspects of endemicity: regular breakthroughs.

(NYT)