A health official in San Francisco, California, said the first confirmed U.S. patient with the Omicron COVID-19 variant is doing well. San Francisco health officer Dr. Susan Philip told news outlets Thursday that “this first individual is doing well” and there are no signs the variant was further transmitted. The patient’s identity, including age, has not been disclosed. “We’re so happy to hear that and they absolutely contributed to our understanding in San Francisco, and nationally, because they came to our attention, they reported their symptoms and they called us at public health so that we could start the laboratory process to detect the first case in the U.S.,” she told CNN. Philip said that San Francisco officials are still investigating how the individual contracted the Omicron variant, which was described as one of concern by the World Health Organization (WHO) last week, sparking fresh global alarm as governments around the …