COVID-19 Omicron cases peak, experts say, but path ahead uncertain

Prof. Bernard Crespi, an evolutionary biologist at Simon Fraser University, said the development of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 gives clues as to what might come."Those two are connected to one another because you can really only spread fast if the population does not have the immune defences against you," he said, referring to the Omicron variant.

While the ability of a new mutation to spread might be impeded because of higher levels of immunity, Crespi said there is really no good way to accurately gauge virulence, a measure of how likely a variant is to put people in hospital or kill them. Dr. Nelson Lee, interim director of the Institute for Pandemics at the University of Toronto's Dalla Lana School of Public Health, called the virus that causes COVID-19 unpredictable.

The declining infection rate can be measured through wastewater analysis, hospitalization numbers and modelling studies, he said. However, Crespi said it "gets stupid" to protect people with the original mRNA vaccine because that virus is "long, long gone."

So called experts will not say anything as it will decrease their new found fame and and go against the people who pay their salary. So no solid plan just continued fear mongering

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