Here in the USA it's really bad as so many Americans are not vaccinated.
Hospitals are overwhelmed in some regions and at bursting point just about everywhere it seems. Elective work is likely to be abandoned it seems, even critical care has got to be at risk.
People will die who would usually have been expected to survive. This is what pandemic means in real world terms but we should count our blessings vaccination has blunted the crisis and saved hundreds of thousands of lives.
It appears the Omicron variant is the massively dominant one, Delta still around but little mentioned nowadays. The peak in the UK seems to have arrived and the US is expecting the same in another fortnight or so. Doesn't mean the numbers will drop to nothing quickly and lots of infections will continue to be reported for some months but heading the 'right' way.
The prediction is that most of the US will get infected/exposed and that's the mechanism for the Omicron variant to start to die out. Wonder what will follow it, though? What new variant will find the niche where it can develop inside the millions of unvaccinated individuals? They're the pool for new infections and 12 months on we may be doing and saying the same things again, I'm very sad to say.....
