RT: The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has revoked its emergency use authorizations for two kinds of monoclonal antibodies treatments produced by Regeneron and Eli Lilly. The regulator said the two therapeutics were “highly unlikely to be active against the omicron variant.”

The "mild variant" is coming - break out your N95s! -NYT

Jim W. Dean - With the good news, we have the trailing indicator that health systems around the planet are burned out.

Yet again Western governments are panicking, with new restrictions in the UK and the EU. This is despite the fact that so far as we know nobody has yet died of Omicron.