Too soon to know if Omicron will bring pandemic to an end, Fauci says

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NEW YORK — Even if enough people build natural immunity to Covid-19 by catching the highly contagious Omicron variant, Dr Anthony Fauci said it is too soon to say if this will spell an end to the pandemic.

On Monday , Dr Fauci, President Joe Biden’s top medical advisor for Covid, was asked at the online World Economic Forum if this may be the year that the virus becomes endemic, meaning it is still circulating but does not disrupt society.

“I would hope that that’s the case,” he said, “but that would only be the case if we don’t get another variant that eludes the immune response.” While cases seem to be levelling off in New York and other parts of the Northeast, they remain extremely high across the United States, averaging nearly 802,000 per day, an increase of 98 per cent over the past two weeks. An average of nearly 156,000 people with the virus are hospitalised nationwide, a record. Deaths now exceed 1,900 per day, up 57 per cent over two weeks.

 

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