The current situation is a handful of confirmed Omicron cases in the US, and a (useless) travel ban to prevent additional cases. Either this data is noise, or t

The current situation is a handful of confirmed Omicron cases in the US, and a (useless) travel ban to prevent additional cases. Either this data is noise, or that genie isn't just out of the bottle, but ransacked the house while we're arguing over the cork. With a doubling time around 3-5 days and very effective spread to both previously infected and vaccinated, the exact position on that curve is a difference of days. If we're lucky, it's a mild strain - this doesn't have strong evidence yet. If we're unlucky, and it's similar to other strains, we have around a month before things get very bad indeed.