Dr. Howard Smith Oncall

  Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/rr4hxBeyJj0   The highly contagious OmicronBA2 subvariant that is taking over everywhere has lead to a surge of hospitalizations in Great Britain that is more than 3 times greater than that seen with the original CoVid strain, higher than that due to the British alpha CoVid variant pre-vaccine, and more than twice as high as that with Delta in the CoVid vaccine era.  This from England’s National Health Service.   The OmicronBA2 subvariant is the most contagious form of CoVid that we have seen to date.  While the Omicron variant rapidly supplanted Delta toward the end of 2021, the Omicron subvariants BA.1 and now BA.2 have spread even faster.   This is all by way of warning that OmicronBA2 is now taking over in the US.  It is accounting for 72% of cases currently.  The levels of Omicron BA2 recovered from wastewater in the Northeast just hit a 6 week high and are also rising in the South.     A slew of government officials have now tested positive for CoVid including Speaker Nancy