Nations abandon restrictive steps to contain Covid-19 even as cases of the relatively mild Omicron variant surge
spreads so quickly and generally causes such a mild form of illness among vaccinated populations that countries are tolerating greater Covid-19 outbreaks, willingly letting infections balloon to levels that not long ago would have constituted public-health crises.
From different starting points, authorities in North America, Europe and the Asia-Pacific are moving in the same direction, offering a glimpse into a future in which the pandemic crisis becomes a fact of everyday life, like seasonal flu.
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