The masks are coming off in Washington.
, MD, told Seattle’s Morning News. “So if there’s a time to start removing the masks, it’s now.”
There is more herd immunity too, Cohen says, that has been developed as a result of omicron and more people getting infected, in addition to the immunity from vaccinations and earlier variant infections. There have been studies to show that even if you don’t have a severe case of COVID, you can still have lingering health effects, which Dr. Cohen says has been more of a discussion lately now that there are some people who are, essentially, two years out from the initial infections.
“This is a real phenomenon, but it may be there there is a genetic predisposition to having the symptoms of long COVID,” Cohen noted. “The problem is those genetics haven’t been worked out yet, so for any given individual, at this point, there’s nothing to predict whether you will have it or not.”
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