Omicron likely to become dominant Covid-19 variant in US : Anthony Fauci

By Online News of India Published on Dec 15, 2021

(200630) -- WASHINGTON, June 30, 2020 (Xinhua) -- Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, testifies before the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions on COVID-19: Update on Progress Toward Safely Getting Back to Work and Back to School in Washington, D.C., the United States, on June 30, 2020. Anthony Fauci, the U.S. government's top infectious-diseases expert, warned Tuesday that COVID-19 cases in the United States could go up to 100,000 per day if the current trend "does not turn around." (Kevin Dietsch/Pool via Xinhua)

Washington : The newest Omicron variant is likely to become a dominant Covid-19 variant in the US, said top US infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci.”Omicron is going to be a challenge because it spreads very rapidly, and the vaccines that we use the regular two dose mRNA don’t do very well against infection itself,” he said on Tuesday in an interview with CNN.

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In South Africa, where the Omicron variant was first identified, while there is almost a vertical spike of infection, the country is not seeing severe hospitalisations, according to Fauci, Director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.The Omicron variant, which is possibly more contagious than the Delta variant, had been found in at least 31 US states as of Monday, since the first case in the country was detected in California on December 1, Xinhua news agency reported.