[RickeyM]

Many area hospitals here are implementing crisis standards of care protocols. Contingency Standards of Care protocols are used in times of emergency, when the demand for healthcare is reaching a critical point of exceeding the ability of the health system to provide it without instituting special measures. Local hospitals are seeing more cases than last winter.
A good friend of mine told me a couple of days ago that he had Covid again. This despite having Covid last year and being vaccinated this year. He hadn't gotten the booster yet tho'. Last week he told me he thought he had a cold by the symptoms he had. Turns out that his daughter that lives with him had the bug and suggested he get tested and sure enough he was positive. Because of the relatively mild symptoms it might be the Omicron mutation.