underway, pfizer ceo says he expects the omicron specific vaccine to be ready quickly in march, which is after all only a few weeks away. even before we ve gotten an omicron specific vaccine though, lots of u.s. states that were hit hardest in the early part of the omicron wave are already seeing cases decline rapidly, because we are seeing that in multiple hard-hit states, even while the variant continues to surge in rich states with low vaccination rates, our overall national case count is now starting to drop. we appear to be on the downward side of the curve in terms of the omicron crush. doctor ashish job, dean of the brown university public school of health. put it this way in the washington post, his headline here as you can see is quote, the worst of omicron might have passed but the pandemic isn t over. dr. jha suggest that we use the next few months when we see lower levels of the virus, to get ready, to get ready for the next surge or even the next