There will be different states for different people and for different regions," he said. "There will not be one state of the pandemic. Robert Wachter, chair of the Department of Medicine at University of California, San Francisco. "When I go to the store this afternoon, what helps me is to know how much COVID is in my community," said Dr. In the meantime, living with COVID in 2022 will likely mean assessing local risks and protecting oneself through vaccination, masking and social distancing. She said that was among the reasons she believes it will be some time before the world moves from pandemic to endemic COVID-19. Celine Gounder, an infectious disease specialist at New York University. "You still have a lot of people who are susceptible" because they are not yet vaccinated, said Dr. Many experts believe this second line of defense will prevent hospitalizations and deaths. But as the outbreak has spread around the world, it has become more. Immune system T cells, which destroy infected cells, also appear still to be able to recognize the variant. When the virus was first identified in China in late 2019, lockdown seemed extreme. Blood test results from fully vaccinated people show Omicron has learned to escape neutralization a booster dose might restore that protection. So far, most of the studies looking at the effectiveness of vaccines against Omicron have focused on neutralizing antibodies, which latch on to the virus and prevent it from entering and infecting cells. David Dowdy, an infectious disease epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins. And that immunity is more effective against serious illness than it is against getting infected at all," said Dr. "Even if that immunity is not as good against Omicron, it doesn't mean that it's worthless. More than 270 million people have been infected with COVID, according to the World Health Organization, while an estimated 57% of the global population has received at least one vaccine dose, representing potential protection that did not exist two years ago. Some scientists are not entirely ready to abandon hope that some parts of the world will emerge from the pandemic next year. "You need to recognize that at certain times, it's going to be safer to do things than at other times." Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. SACRAMENTO Governor Gavin Newsom today signed an executive order to protect Californians amid increasing COVID-19 case rates and hospitalizations driven by the fast-spreading Omicron variant. Tom Frieden, chief executive of Resolve to Save Lives, a global public health initiative, and former director of the U.S. Instead, people will need to be ready to adjust when the next variant comes along, said Dr. The seven-day average of daily deaths linked to COVID-19 in the United States is now more than 1,150, according to data for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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