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Faster-than-ever COVID-19 spread has us wondering if getting Omicron is inevitable — and what that means for the virus’ long-term future
During the first wave of the pandemic, public health measures often limited the virus’s spread to isolated outbreaks, tragically claiming lives in susceptible places such as long-term-care homes. With Beta- and Delta-type COVID-19, community spread of the virus was substantially curbed as vaccination ticked up. That doesn’t mean endemic COVID-19 will be innocuous. “You could frame that as making the virus endemic.”A remaining question is whether Omicron could help COVID-19 reach its endemic phase. Shaman is skeptical that means the pandemic will end after a massive number of people become infected with Omicron.
Source: thestar December 31, 2021 17:27 UTC
