Georgia doctor previews COVID-19 outlook through holidays

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October 24th, 2022

The FDA is expected to green light new COVID-19 vaccines any day now to help people protect themselves from the latest strains of the virus.
Tori Hood, an emergency room nurse at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, gives 15-year-old Tristan Linscott her first COVID-19 vaccine dose at a pop-up vaccination clinic at the Georgia International Convention Center in College Park, Georgia in January 2022. (Sam Whitehead/WABE)

During 2020, we would see the first holiday season of what we now call the high pandemic era.

Now for this holiday season, still in a pandemic, the holidays — on top of a big election year — have made the start of the season quite stressful for some.

On this edition of “Closer Look,” Dr. Winston Price, immediate past chief of staff at Memorial Hospital and Manor in Bainbridge, Georgia, discussed developments in growing COVID-19 variants, including a new strain of Omicron that is expected to surge throughout the upcoming holiday season.

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