Omicron drives US deaths higher than in fall’s delta wave

Omicron drives US deaths higher than in fall’s delta wave

“Omicron will push us over a million deaths,” said Andrew Noymer, a public health [associate] professor at the University of California, Irvine. “That will cause a lot of soul searching. There will be a lot of discussion about what we could have done differently, how many of the deaths were preventable.”