Dr. Siegel: Omicron Will Burn Out By the End of this Month

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SIEGEL: "We have a million cases today and over 100,000 hospitalizations in the United States. We're not out of the woods yet because even if the rate of hospitalization is only one fifth of Delta, we're getting five times to ten times more cases, but here's the good side of that. This is going to burn out. I’m not the only one predicting that. If we are listing a million cases, it's more like 5 to 10 million cases. In the next three or four weeks we’re going to have a lot more Omicron, mostly mild, and it is going to burn out like it did in South Africa. In the meantime, everybody out there, do what’s responsible. If you haven't had your booster yet, get your booster. If you haven't been vaccinated, get vaccinated. Biden administration, where are our therapeutics? We need the drugs, we need the monoclonal antibodies. All of that is what we all have to be doing right now. But I think it looks like the milder Omicron will burn this out to a large extent by the end of this month."