Local officials are now weighing the possibility that pandemic measures may need to be reimposed.
The BA.2 sublineage of the Omicron variant is now responsible for more than 9 in 10 COVID-19 cases in the Northeast, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated Tuesday, as the region is now responding to upticks in cases and hospitalizations.
Citing a recent rise in cases, Philadelphia said Monday that infections had crossed the benchmarks it had set to"We hope by having folks whenever they're in public, indoor spaces we can get ahead of the wave and keep it from reaching a peak like we saw in January," the city's top health official Dr.
The Biden administration's health officials say they hope the fallout from the BA.2 wave will not result in the same death toll seen out of the winter.
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