COVID-19 omicron variant

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The hospital system is overwhelmed with cases of the delta variant of COVID-19, the flu and the new, highly contagious omicron variant.

Northeast Ohio hospitals are also seeing more COVID-19 patients than ever before, partially due to the highly contagious omicron variant.

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In addition to being more transmissible than delta, omicron appears to evade antibodies from the first two doses of COVID-19 vaccines.

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The Ohio Department of Health (ODH) announced that the COVID-19 variant called omicron is in Ohio. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention believes that this variant has likely been circulating in the U.S. since November.

The omicron variant of the coronavirus, which the World Health Organization recently designated as a variant of concern after it was discovered to be spreading quickly throughout South Africa, has not yet been detected in Northeast Ohio or anywhere in the U.S. – but it will likely be found here soon, according to medical experts.