cdc is now predicting more than 44,000 people could die of covid-19 in the next four weeks. that s a scary prediction for this country, given the fact we re heading into year three of this pandemic. how do we slow this down? how many of thousands 44,000 will been unvaccinated? first off, we have to acknowledge we re in a mess right now. the best way to approach is is say what we know and what we don t know. among those who develop omicron infection, we don t know how many will get seriously ill and die. even with the increasing deaths, a lot of that is still the carryover delta variant. it s possible over the weeks ahead omicron will, in fact, reduce the number of severe illnesses. where that falls on its head is if we have that many more infections that it creates more