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for as we go from really an acute phase of this pandemic toward more endemic phase. do you agree with what the experts say that it could be another six to eight weeks for this omicron surge discipline that track with the data you ve seen? it depends. really the only country we ve got good data from so far is south africa which saw peak in about four weeks and started coming down. obviously, our country s immune profile is very different. a lot more people vaccinated. so we don t know how this is going to play out here. my hope is, it s more like 4 to 6 weeks, which has the peak then kind of in mid-january with infection numbers declining. but it s really a best guess at this moment. the infectious disease director at children s national hospital in d.c. says close to half the covid tests being performed are coming back positive. that includes children with symptoms and without symptoms. what does that tell you? it tells me this virus is really very widespread. particularly in w

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