Yet much has changed in two years. Besides the fact that Omicron is milder, we now have vaccines, antivirals, and a much better understanding of the disease and how to treat it. Logistical, rather epidemiological, problems — such as the shortage of health care workers, the distribution of new medical treatments, and inadequate testing capacity — increasingly take center stage in our policy debates.
Is This Still an Emergency?
With a new variant running rampant, an enormous wave of cases, hospitals under strain, mask mandates returning, states of emergency being redeclared, and schools reverting to virtual learning, it is easy to get the sense that we have slid back to where we started. A raft of news articles in late December described the perilous and demoralizing feeling that the country was returning to the pandemic moment of early 2020.
Yet much has changed in two years. Besides the fact that Omicron is milder, we now have vaccines, antivirals, and a much better understanding of the disease and how to treat it. Logistical, rather epidemiological, problems — such as the shortage of health care workers, the distribution of new medical treatments, and inadequate testing capacity — increasingly take center stage in our policy debates.
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Yet much has changed in two years. Besides the fact that Omicron is milder, we now have vaccines, antivirals, and a much better understanding of the disease and how to treat it. Logistical, rather epidemiological, problems — such as the shortage of health care workers, the distribution of new medical treatments, and inadequate testing capacity — increasingly take center stage in our policy debates.
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