Though ‘stealth’ omicron cases are climbing in Chicago, top doctor doubts another major surge is on the way: ‘I am not alarmed’

New daily cases in Chicago have again topped 300, still far below the height of the omicron surge.

Chicago’s public health Commissioner Dr. Allison Arwady said Thursday that the city’s outlook for weathering the recent increase in COVID-19 cases remains promising.

Dr. Allison Arwady, commissioner of the Chicago Department of Public Health, talks Feb. 22, 2022, in Chicago. Arwady said the reason for her outlook is that Chicago’s prior experience with being hit hard by the original omicron variant, also known as BA.1, gives much of the population some immunity toward BA.2.

Arwady said Thursday that the city is not close to considering a return to any of those mitigations, but she outlined the new metrics for such scenarios.

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