under way, pfizer's ceo says he expects the omicron variant vaccine to be ready quickly, in march, which is, after all, only a few weeks away. even before we've got an omicron variant specific vaccine, though, lots of u.s. states hit hardest in the early part of the omicron variant wave are already seeing cases decline rapidly, because we're seeing that in multiple hard-hit state, even while the variant continues to surge in states with low vaccination rate, our overall national case count is also now starting to drop. we appear to be on the downward side of the curve in terms of the omicron crush. dr. ashish aja, the dean of brown public school of public health. put it this way in "the washington post," the head line as you can see it, the worst of omicron might have passed, but the pandemic is not over. dr. aja suggested that we use the next few months when we see the lower level of virus to get ready for the next surge or next