Excerpt from WKEF
Everyone has felt pandemic fatigue at some point over the last two years, and now there’s ‘cautious optimism’ from health officials that things could get a little brighter moving forward if the right steps are taken.
“Hang in there because things look like, at least for what's going on now with omicron that things are turning around,” Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease said Friday. “We've got to hang in there and really prevent it from going back to a surge.”
Parts of the country are seeing cases, hospitalizations and deaths decline slowly.
Locally, on January 24, 652 patients were in hospitals, where Saturday, 436 patients remained.
Daily cases follow a similar trend even with the emergence of the new omicron subvariant BA.2.
“It doesn’t appear to be any more virulent or deadly or more severe than the BA.1 omicron that we’ve been dealing with,” Dr. Glen Solomon, Chair of Internal Medicine at Wright State University’s Boonshoft School of Medicine said.
“Everybody wants this to be over and to go back to the old version of normal. But there’s no way that’s going to happen anytime in the near future.”
