In a little over two weeks, the omicron variant has edged out delta to become the country’s most common COVID-19 infection, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the coming surge could surpass previous peaks.
That could mean hundreds of thousands of new cases a day, if not a million, says former National Institutes of Health director Francis Collins. And while we know vaccinations are still doing what they’re supposed to — preventing people from serious illness and death — we also know there’s an increase in breakthrough infections among the fully vaccinated.
So what are the protocols if you become infected — and is it inevitable?
Host Tonya Mosley talks to Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo, director of the division of infectious diseases at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
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