ABC57 News in South Bend, Ind. covers all of Michiana including St. Joseph, Elkhart, Kosciusko, LaPorte and Marshall counties in Indiana and Berrien, Cass, Van Buren and St. Joseph counties in Mich.
People should not deliberately try to catch Omicron and get it over with, as there’s no way to predict the severity of COVID infections, says Dr. Jose Mayorga of UC Irvine.
Roughly 4.4 million Southland residents are expected to hit the road or take to the skies this Thanksgiving. While that’s close to the all-time travel record set in 2019, the pandemic is far from over.
“[Last year] wasn t a one-two punch show, more just COVID. . Our kids were at home or remote learning or hybrid [learning]. That is likely why we didn t see such an increase [in] flu cases. . Now that we re in a different state, we are possibly looking at a very interesting winter with the flu and COVID," says José Mayorga.