As Omicron Spreads, Governments Race to Ease Staff Shortages

Govt leaders and advisers are examining how greatest to answer to a surge of new Covid-19 infections from the quick-spreading Omicron variant, with the U.S. seeking at ways to reduce team shortages and prevent hospitals from turning into overrun with new conditions, when Israel has begun tests a fourth shot of Covid-19 vaccine on health care personnel.

Preliminary evidence suggests the Omicron variant, initially discovered by South African epidemiologists very last month, made a milder illness than previously Covid-19 strains, specifically in men and women who have been vaccinated.