Why Omicron means ‘we have to stop counting cases’: Full Comment with Anthony Furey

Canada’s reaction to the new COVID\u002D19 variant suggests we haven’t yet learned from our past mistakes, Dr. Neil Rau tells Anthony Furey in this episode of Full…

Canada’s reaction to the new COVID-19 variant suggests we haven’t yet learned from our past mistakes, Dr. Neil Rau tells Anthony Furey in this episode of Full Comment. The flight bans to stop Omicron will prove pointless, explains Rau, an infectious-diseases expert and medical microbiologist in Toronto.

Meanwhile, officials’ outdated attitudes about case counts, PCR tests, vaccinations and restrictions threaten a “tsunami of quarantine.” Eventually, Canadians will have to get a more realistic perspective on a virus that will simply keep mutating, Rau says — and it’ll be better for us all if we get there sooner, rather than later.

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