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Tackling Omicron: An Institutional Failure?

January 26, 2022
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The past couple years, living through the miasma of the virus, under sheer-confounded fear of an enemy that had simply derailed our lives and changed the mold of how we viewed and lived in this new normal. With the coming and going of wave after wave of infections institutions and the general public have now been reminded of the importance of health care and a proper health directive guiding the nation.

And yet, for all these warnings and literal disaster that have flashed upon our faces, we still find ourselves underprepared in the strategies we adopt to tackle new variants and unappreciative of the work the medical professionals perform daily to keep our lives intact. From botched vaccination plans to underpaid, frustrated workers, the strategy to combat the virus seems to be a faltering cause every passing day.