WASHINGTON — States with low coronavirus vaccine booster rates could see COVID-19 deaths rise as strains of the Omicron variant spread across the U.S., White House pandemic response coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha warned on Sunday.
“There is an important pattern emerging in the Northeast that helps chart the path forward,” Jha wrote on Twitter. He and others have tried to tamp down concerns about the new surge in cases while pointing to readily available means for keeping people out of hospitals — and morgues.
Dr. Ashish Jha, the White House coronavirus response coordinator, at a press briefing on April 26. (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)
Infection rates in New England and the