Omicron Variant Spread

• Omicron variant complicates what a COVID-19 endemic will look like

  Pandemics do eventually end, even if Omicron is complicating the question of when this one will. The world will have to learn to coexist with a virus that’s not going away.

  Health

  Jan 3, 2022
  
• Omicron variant multiplies 70 times faster in airways than Delta: study

  Compared to the earlier Delta variant, Omicron multiplies itself 70 times more quickly in tissues that line airway passages, which may facilitate person-to-person spread

  Health

  Dec 16, 2021
  
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• Federal and provincial governments preparing for Omicron variant spread

  Governments across Canada are bracing for the possible effects of the Omicron variant as COVID-19 case numbers rise sharply in some provinces and around the world.

  Health

  Dec 16, 2021
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• Quebec, Ontario, P.E.I., introduce new measures to slow Omicron spread

  PM Trudeau and the premiers agreed that the key to moving beyond the COVID-19 pandemic is to ensure that as many Canadians as possible, get vaccinated booster shots.

  Politics

  Dec 15, 2021
• Omicron driving up Canada’s R value at ‘unprecedented’ rate. Here’s what that means

  The reproductive rate of the Omicron variant in Ontario is almost four times as much as the Delta variant, which experts say could result in an overwhelmed health-care system.

  Health

  Dec 14, 2021