How can we tell if we are winning?
Omicron variant is still expanding in Kentucky.
I have put off reporting on whether we have turned the corner with respect to the current overwhelming Omicron spike of Covid-19 cases that is once again disrupting our social and economic lives in Kentucky. Epidemic-related case, death, testing, and hospital numbers have been exhibiting more than their usual weekday volatility since the Omicron flair began in December, amplified by reporting delays related to three long holiday weekends and epic natural disasters. The experience with Omicron in other countries and a few American states that hosted the strain early enabled, an optimistic view that Omicron would come and go as “icepick” spike in the epidemic curve rather than the prolonged mountainous bulges that characterized the summer surges of the Alpha and Delta strains of 2020-21. The record high numbers of new cases reported yesterday make it clear that we have not yet felt the worst of Omicron’s epidemic expansion.
