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Covid-
19: Here's Why You Shouldn't Deliberately Catch Omicron To 'Get It Over With'
With several health experts, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, predicting most Americans will eventually be exposed to the COVID-19 Omicron variant, some are asking "Why not catch it and get over it?" Not so fast, according to scientists. "You'd be crazy to try to get infected with this," Dr. Robert Murphy, executive director of the Havey Institute for Global Health at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, told CNN. "It's like playing with dynamite." Murphy noted Omicron is a "life-threatening disease" and "not just a cold," and even in milder cases, people have been left de…