Poor planning. Covid is NOT over. It is just wishful, incorrect, thinking.
Saw recent news article Pfizer stated their Covid vaccine was only still effective
against the new Omicron variant if people get the 3 doses with the booster.
Removing this post will not remove the threat of getting Covid Omicron or Delta.
So...
https://www.yahoo.com/news/europe-sounds-the-alarm-over-exponential-growth-of-omicron-variant-192800682.html
Yahoo News
Europe sounds the alarm over exponential growth of Omicron variant
Melissa Rossi·Contributor
Wed, December 15, 2021, 2:28 PM
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said Wednesday that the Omicron variant will likely become the dominant coronavirus strain in the 27-member European Union by mid-January.
“Like many of you, I’m sad that once again this Christmas will be overshadowed by the pandemic,” von der Leyen said at a news conference in Brussels.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen at a summit meeting in Brussels on Wednesday. (Stephanie Lecocq/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)
Omicron is highly transmissible. A just-released study from researchers in Hong Kong found that it replicates 70 times faster than Delta does once in a host, and the variant is now hurtling across the continent with breathtaking speed, health officials say.
“Omicron is spreading at a rate we have not seen with any previous variant,” World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus told reporters Tuesday. Even more worrying, people who have already received two COVID-19 doses are getting it, and one fully vaccinated man in the U.K. died as a result.
“I need to be very clear: Vaccines alone will not get any country out of this crisis,” said Tedros. “It’s not vaccines instead of masks, distancing, ventilation or hand hygiene. Do it all. Do it consistently. Do it well.”
In the U.K., which on Wednesday reported a record-breaking 78,610 new cases of COVID in the previous 24 hours, Prime Minister Boris Johnson is warning of a “tidal wave” of even more cases thanks to Omicron, which is already the dominant strain in London. The variant was first detected in the city in late November. Since then, more than 5,300 Omicron caseOmicrons have been reported.