The White House COVID-19 Response Team has warned that the coming weeks are going to be challenging as the Omicron variant continues to spread fast among US communities.
"We're going to see cases continue to rise because Omicron is a very transmissible variant," White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator Jeff Zients said at a routine news conference Wednesday.
In the same platform, Chief Medical Advisor to the President Dr. Anthony Fauci said, "The Omicron variant, so far, appears to be less severe than the Delta. But remember the caveat: Rapid community spread is seeing larger numbers of children being hospitalized — again, mostly among the unvaccinated."
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