Early reports of the severity of illness caused by the Omicron variant are encouraging, Dr. Anthony Fauci says.
So far, British officials have told the public to proceed with their holiday plans and get booster shots.
“Our message is this: Enjoy Christmas this year. The vaccine rollout means we’re in a position to do so,” Dominic Raab, Britain’s deputy prime minister,Even still, health officials in Denmark said they expect the Omicron variant to spread locally through community transmission.
Germany, which has been hesitant to put strong mandates in place due to the country’s history with authoritarianism, has banned unvaccinated people from numerous public activities and plans to require vaccination next year.“We’re going to see lots of big numbers over the course of the next several weeks in countries around the world,” Michael Osterholm, PhD, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, told the newspaper.
“And this shouldn’t be a surprise,” he said. “This virus is just acting like a highly transmissible respiratory virus.
“By virtue of Omicron adopting this insertion … it is essentially taking a leaf out of the seasonal coronaviruses’ page, which [explains] … how it lives and transmits more efficiently with human beings,” Venky Soundararajan, PhD, one of the study authors and a biological engineer,
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