by PublicSource The Allegheny County Health Department has confirmed the first local cases of the highly contagious omicron variant. The first case is from a specimen collected Dec. 7 from an adult male, confirmed to be omicron on Wednesday. The second case was from a specimen collected Dec. 13 and confirmed Thursday. At a Wednesday … Continued

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