'That's the vaccine working,' U.S. public health expert Ashish Jha said Sunday of the growing number of mild, cold-like Covid infections among vaccinated Americans, arguing that policymakers should pay more attention to hospitalization numbers than the volume of new cases.
As omicron fuels a nationwide surge in Covid-19 cases, Dr. Ashish Jha, one of the nation's top health experts, joined a growing chorus of experts arguing health officials should start to put a greater focus on hospitalizations and deaths—as opposed to case counts—to track the severity of Covid-19 waves, pointing to the less severe illness among the now high proportion of the population that is vaccinated as a pivot point for the pandemic.
Jha said he's convinced the pandemic will spur additional variants, but posited each of them will impact lives"less and less" until they no longer have a big effect on hospitals.
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