Omicron is “extraordinarily contagious,” Dr. Athony Fauci said Sunday. “Every day it goes up and up ... and it likely will go much higher.”
Dr. Anthony Fauci warned Sunday that Americans should not get complacent over the omicron variant of COVID-19, even though it may cause less severe reactions, and predicted a massive surge in new cases in the coming weeks.
Noting that new data suggests omicron results in less severe reactions and less likelihood of hospitalizations, Fauci said the sheer numbers could still cause hospitals to be swamped: “If you have many, many, many more people with a less level of severity, that might kind of neutralize the positive effect of having less severity when you have so many more people.”
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