Covid-19 hospitalizations soar past the Delta peak and creep toward the all-time high By Holly Yan and Travis Caldwell, CNN Jan 4, 2022 Jan 4, 2022 Updated Feb 9, 2022 0 A health care worker administers a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine to a child in Oklahoma City in 2021. 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Omicron is definitely contagious, but what does that really mean? "It is much more relevant to focus on the hospitalizations as opposed to the total number of cases," says Dr. Anthony Fauci.
