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Faced with the meteoric rise of the Omicron variant, nervousness is gaining ground in the United States: the number of contaminations is increasing rapidly and American experts believe that this new variant of Covid-19 will be at the origin of each new infection from next January.
Americans unvaccinated against Covid-19 should expect a deadly winter. The words of US President Joe Biden could not be clearer. The number of cases linked to the new Omicron variant is doubling every two days, and in two weeks, new infections in the United States have increased by more than 50%.
For the unvaccinated, we’re going to have a winter of serious illness and death …
Joe Biden encourages Americans to get vaccinated
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Cases are soaring among the troops of musicals on Broadway: the American football league has recorded since the beginning of the week a hundred patients among the players, the basketball league is also affected. Prestigious universities have already sent their students home to avoid contamination on their campuses.
Avoid restrictions
Omicron is therefore there, but the White House is not currently considering new restrictive measures. Instead of taking the risk of further dividing a country already very polarized on the management of the pandemic, the Biden administration is rather choosing to try by all means to convince the recalcitrant to be vaccinated.
The tenors of the republican opposition, them, continue to rebel against the compulsory vaccine for certain professional sectors or the wearing of the mask at school.
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