From WSJopinion: Between Omicron’s rise, layered immunity, and therapies, it’s safe to treat the virus like the flu, writes Harvey Risch
Wonder Land: President Biden must declare the pandemic over, so that Americans can return to normal lives, in which Covid-19 is treated as endemic. Images: AFP/Getty Images/Image of Sport/Zuma Press Composite: Mark KellyThe time has come for states and the federal government to end their Covid declarations of emergency and the accompanying closures, restrictions, propaganda, distancing requirements, forced masking and vaccine mandates.
Omicron has become the dominant variant. Over the past two months, the Delta variant strain—Omicron’s main competitor and the most recent aggressive version of Covid—has been declining in the U.S. That is true both in proportion of infections and the number of daily infected people , according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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