As the great Yogi Berra would say, it’s like déjà vu all over again. New York finds itself in a wait-and-see scenario, as health officials now face the almost certain possibility that the heavily mutated coronavirus variant called omicron will arrive within days. From Dr. Anthony Fauci, the chief medical adviser to President Biden, to Dr. Dave Chokshi, the city’s Health Commissioner, experts grasped for answers after the discovery of the apparently fast-spreading variant, and local authorities grappled with the news that the strain had been spotted just across the border in Ottawa, Canada’s ca…

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