ROCHESTER, Minn. – With the peak of the omicron surge in the rearview mirror, the number of COVID-19 cases in the U.S. is dropping.
But Mayo Clinic COVID-19 experts caution that vaccination and boosters are still key. Doctor Melanie Swift says “vaccination has moved us to a very different place than we would have been without it.”
Despite surges and record-high hospitalizations, Swift says without vaccinations, they would have been so much more devastating. She adds that the majority of hospitalized COVID patients are unvaccinated.
