'You can keep your head buried in the sand but hospitalizations are now rising sharply,' responded a professor of medicine and surgery.
faced backlash Friday and Saturday for calling Omicron concerns"irrational hysteria" as COVID cases continue to rise across the United States.
He added:"The real crisis is the irrational hysteria which has people with no symptoms waiting hours for a test or missing work for 10 days."
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