Category: Omnicron

Omicron Offers an Off-Ramp From Our Failed Pandemic Policy

Commentary As the COVID-19 pandemic and the Western world’s unprecedented approach to it enters a new phase, with the Omicron variant becoming more prevalent, an opportunity presents itself to effect dramatic and much-needed changes to COVID policy. When the global pandemic was in its early stages in early 2020, very little was known, and our…


WTO Postpones Key Meeting Over New COVID-19 Variant

The World Trade Organization (WTO) said on Nov. 26 that it was calling off a key upcoming ministerial meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, citing disruption to international travel sparked by the emergence of a new COVID-19 variant that the WTO described as “particularly transmissible.” The WTO’s 12th Ministerial Conference (MC12) was scheduled to kick off on…