Clatsop County braces for Omicron surge

Clatsop County hospitals are bracing for yet another Covid-19 surge. That’s due to the Omicron variant. KMUN’s Jacob Lewin has this report: [Scroll down to Listen:] Oregon Health Sciences University’s top forecaster is projecting that Omicron covid hospitalizations will soon surge to 17-hundred per day statewide, up from a peak of 12-hundred with the delta variant: “His forecasting was based largely on Denmark which is similar in population and vaccination rates and other key demographic rates to Oregon.” That’s Columbia Memorial Hospital chief medical officer Chris Strier: “Omicron is preliminarily looking to be less severe than delta, fewer icu cases,...