"I love that cases around the country are going down right now, but we can't just look at case counts. We've also got to look at transmission and hospitalization rates," said Dr. Ali Raja, Executive Vice Chair of Emergency Medicine at MGH.
Amid an ongoing surge of the omicron variant of the coronavirus, the Biden administration launched a new testing initiative last week, sending every residence four free rapid tests and requiring private health insurers to cover up to eight at-home tests per month for those on their plans.