Is the Omicron Variant Spreading in Africa?

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Omicron variant, it seems to be a descendant from some other ancestral strain about a year ago. One possibility is that the omicran variant was spreading in parts of the world where we had low genetic surveillance and therefore we just didn't detect it earlier. Another possibility is that it wasn't circulating in a population Rather, it was enduring in a specific individual. A third possibility is thatThe coronovirus kin, even if we vaccinated everybody, will never eradicate this virus because it can live in animals who we live with. So their animal reservoirs possible. That's the third possibility. And then, of course, there're some people who speculate that this is still a dark reaches of

Sam Harris speaks with Nicholas Christakis about the lessons of the COVID pandemic. They discuss our failures to coordinate an effective response, the politics surrounding vaccination, vaccine efficacy, vaccine safety, how to think about scientific controversies, the epidemiology of excess deaths, transmission among the vaccinated, natural immunity, selection pressures and new variants, the failure of institutions, the lab-leak hypothesis, the efficacy of lockdowns, vaccine mandates, boosters, what would happen in a worse pandemic, and other topics.

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