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Viewpoint: What Doesn’t Kill You Mutates and Tries Again

View OpEd:   https://www.infectioncontroltoday.com/view/viewpoint-what-doesn-t-kill-you-mutates-and-tries-again       
   

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1. Rates of COVID-19 Cases and Deaths by Vaccination Status. CDC. Accessed on Dec. 8, 2021. https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#rates-by-vaccine-status
 
2. Wood D, Brumfiel G. Pro-Trump counties now have far higher COVID death rates. Misinformation is to blame. NPR. Dec. 5, 2021. https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/12/05/1059828993/data-vaccine-misinformation-trump-counties-covid-death-rate
 
3. Two vaccine doses may not provide sufficient protection against Omicron coronavirus variant, but protection improves with three doses, Pfizer says. https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/08/health/pfizer-omicron-vaccine-data/index.html
 
4. Booster doses of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine will be critical against omicron, companies’ study suggests. https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/booster-doses-of-pfizer-biontech-vaccine-will-be-critical-against-omicron-companies-study-suggests/ar-AARBA2E
 
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11. Khetpal V. Just Say It: The Health Care System Has Collapsed. Slate. Sept. 7, 2021. https://slate.com/technology/2021/09/healthcare-system-collapse-icu-ration-beds.html
  
12. Branswell H. Some experts suggest Omicron variant may have evolved in an animal host. STAT. Dec. 2, 2021. https://www.statnews.com/2021/12/02/some-experts-suggest-omicron-variant-may-have-evolved-in-an-animal-host/