Recently, omicron seems to be retreating in South Africa and health care workers stretched thin during the surge are now able to get a bit of a break. Host Marco Werman speaks with Fareed Abdullah — an infectious disease doctor at Steve Biko Academic Hospital in Pretoria — about what he learned from the omicron surge in the region where it was first detected.
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