What to Know About the Omicron Variant
Omicron has quickly become the dominate COVID strain in the United States.
Omicron has quickly become the dominate COVID strain in the United States.
Viruses with variants aren’t anything new. The COVID-19 variants are a concern because some of them are more contagious, more deadly, and may lead to vaccine failures.
It is large groups of unvaccinated people in which SARS-CoV-2 continues to spread, allowing it to mutate, that is responsible for the variants we are seeing.
The Delta variant is causing SARS-CoV-2 cases to surge, especially in folks who are unvaccinated.