Despite the still high toll of COVID-19, there is reason to be optimistic about the Omicron wave because vaccines are proving effective
William Hanage
Hanage is Co-Director of the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics and an associate professor of epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, where he studies the evolution and epidemiology of infectious disease
The Omicron variant is starting to hit the world but have the tools to fight it—only if we heed the lessons of the last two years
We have successful vaccines that will reduce the harm of COVID-19, but now we also need to talk about possibly eliminating the disease
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