By Marie Rosenthal
Omicron is very good at evading the immune protection conferred by vaccines, natural infection and agents such as monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) authorized to prevent serious infections, according to David Ho, MD, the director of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center and the Clyde ’56 and Helen Wu Professor of Medicine at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, in New York City.
This is one reason COVID-19 cases continue to surge around the country,