Omicron has the potential to either delay or speed up endimacity. Small, preliminary studies suggest people who recover from an omicron infection may now have antibodies that can help them fight off delta and other variants going forward. If you have a very transmissible virus that replaces another virus, and that virus has less a e degree of severity, that would be a positive outcome.
The omicron variant is very transmissible, but it might make Covid-19 less miserable.
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