Dr. Wens advice for the holidays
Omicron is now the most prevalent variant of the coronavirus in the country. But public health expert and emergency physician Leana Wen says that with a three-pronged approach \u2014 testing, vaccines and masks \u2014 we can still celebrate the holidays.
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Once again, America is looking down the barrel of a winter surge of the coronavirus, thanks to the highly transmissible omicron variant. Houston Methodist Hospital, which has been sequencing genomes since the beginning of the pandemic, says that in a week, omicron spread as rapidly as the delta variant did in three months.
But emergency physician Leana Wen says this isn\u2019t a time for despair: \u201cDespite these staggering numbers, I don\u2019t think vaccinated people should have to cancel their plans for Christmas, New Year\u2019s Eve and other holidays.\u201d Wen joined James Hohmann on his opinion podcast \u201cPlease, Go On\u201d to talk about how we can use the tools we\u2019ve developed to keep omicron at bay this holiday season.