COVID’s coming back in Europe. Are we next? | Popular Science

CEID Faculty Dr. David Hamer weighs in on the Omicron BA. 2 variant and the rising number of COVID cases in Europe:

“…But that’s probably only the first part of the equation. ‘A lot of European countries were seeing an increase in cases right after they released indoor mask mandates,’ says Boston University’s Hamer. The faster-spreading variant might have taken off at the exact same time as people began to gather indoors unmasked. The US saw a similar surge after it lowered its defenses in the summer of 2020…”

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