The Big Question: What Kind of Immunity Will Omicron Provide? (with Bill Hanage)
In the Bubble with Andy Slavitt
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Is Omicron Going to Drive Delta Extinct?
Omicron is not a complete escape variant. It is still controlled to an extent by the immune system, but the nature of the way that it is managing to get around it is different from delta. Once omacron has come through, there will be a whole kind of gimush of different things in the population. There will be those who have been not infected, vaccinated, boosted, infected, boosted vaccinated, and even people who are completely unvaccinated. And i think that they're going to be fighting for those remaining pools of hosts who they are able to enfect. We've been sort of overwhelmed by this extraordinary spicoGrizzly we haven't really thought
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