Posted on 01/18/22
| News Source: The Hill
Anthony Fauci said on Monday that it is too soon to say whether omicron is the final wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The White House chief medical adviser, while speaking at the World Economic Forum's Davos Agenda online conference, said that "it is an open question whether it will be the live virus vaccination that everyone is hoping for," according to CNBC.
"I would hope that that’s the case. But that would only be the case if we don’t get another variant that eludes the immune response of the prior variant,” he added.
Omicron is the most transmissible variant to appear so far, but seems to cause fewer hospitalizations and deaths than previous mutations of the virus, which has made many question if the pandemic is finally close to an end.
The new variant already accounts for over 94 percent of the cases in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which shows how quickly the highly transmissible variant has displaced the previously dominant delta variant.